• Contents


• Preface


• Part I


• 1: Jeremy Richardson: Supranational State Building in the European Union


• 2: Sebastiaan Princen: Agenda-Setting and the Formation of an EU Policy-Making State


• Part II


• 3: Michael Blauberger: Competition Policy: the Evolution of Commission Control


• 4: Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson: From the Treaty of Paris to Globalization: Steel and its 'Escape' from EU Governance


• 5: Carsten Daugbjerg: Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy


• 6: Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Anthony Zito: Environmental Policy: Governing by Multiple Instruments?


• 7: Sonia Mazey: Policy Entrepreneurship, Group Mobilisation and the Creation of a New Policy Domain: Women's Rights and the European Union


• Part III


• 8: Burkard Eberlein: Inching Towards a Common Energy Policy: Entrepreneurship, Incrementalism, and Windows of Opportunity


• 9: Dermot Hodson: The EMU Paradox: Centralization and Decentralization in EU Macroeconomic Policy


• 10: Emiliano Grossman and Patrick Leblond: Financial Regulation in Europe: From the Battle of the Systems to a Jacobinist EU


• 11: Arne Niemann: The Dynamics of EU Migration Policy: from Maastricht to Lisbon


• 12: Andreas Dür: The EU's Foreign Economic Policies: Limits to Delegation


• 13: Michael Smith: Developing a 'Comprehensive Approach' to International Security: Institutional Learning and the CSDP


• 14: Scott Greer: Polity-Making without Policy-Making: European Union Health Care Services Policy


• 15: Gerda Falkner: Promoting Policy Dynamism: The Pathways Interlinking Neofunctionalism and Integovernmentalism


• 16: Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun: Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union


• 17: Jeremy Richardson: The Onward March of Europeanization: Tectonic Movement and Seismic Events

Jeremy Richardson was formerly the Nuffield Professor of Comparative European Politics at Oxford, having previously help Politics Chairs as Essex, Warwick, and Strathclyde Universities. He founded the Journal of European Public Policy, which he still edits. In 2011 he received a Lifetime Award from the European Union Studies Association (USA) for his contribution to EU studies. He has published widely on the public policy process in Britain, Sweden and Norway, as well as the EU. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and holds a Research Chair at the National Centre for Research on Europe, at the University of Canterbury, NZ.

Constructing a Policy-Making State? is a guide to how the European Union really works, in which 12 policy sectors are analysed by some of the leading EU scholars in the world. Its considers how policy is made at the EU level, who is involved, which are the key institutions, and if they are pro-integration.