A key textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary European politics, European Union: Power and policy-making 4th edition offers a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the European Union policy process.

Intended to advance understanding of the EU as a now mature and ongoing policy system, this book addresses the central issues relating to the distribution of power and influence in the European Union including:

• Theoretical perspectives
• The roles of key institutions in the processing of policy problems
• Different channels of representation
• The EU as a policy-making state

Written by a distinguished group of international scholars, this new edition will also appeal to the worldwide community of researchers on the EU.

PART 1 STATE BUILDING, DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION AND A MULTISPEED EUROPE 1. The EU as a policy-making state: a policy system like any other? . The EU as a system of differentiated integration: a challenge for theories of European integration? 3. The politics of multispeed integration in the European Union PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSING 4. The European Commission Arndt Wonka 5. The EU's multilevel parliamentary system 6. The Councils of the EU: intergovernmental bargaining in a supranational polity 7. The shadow of case law: the Court of Justice of the European union and the policy process 8. The distribution of power among institutions 9. The EU budget: which fiscal capacity at the European level? 10. EU agencies PART 3: VARIEGATED POLICY-MAKING 11. EU enlargement 12. The EU as an international actor 13. European regulation 14. European macroeconomic governance 15. Covert integration in the European Union 16. Implementation PART 4: CHANNELS OF REPRESENTATION 17. European elections and the European voter 18. Shooting where the ducks are: EU lobbying and institutionalized promiscuity 19. Bypassing the nation state? Regions and the EU policy process 20. Political Representation and democracy in the EU

Jeremy Richardson is an Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is also Founder and Co-editor of the Journal of European Public Policy

Sonia Mazey is a Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and formally a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, UK