Table of Contents

Part 1. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
1. Policy-making in the EU: Interests, ideas and garbage cans of primeval soup
Jeremy Richardson

2. The European Union: Reaching an equilibrium?
Brigid Laffan and Sonia Mazey

3. Europeanisation of Public Policy
Andrea Lenschow

4. Theories of European Integration: Assumptions and hypotheses
Frank Schimmelfennig and Berthold Rittberger

Part 2. Institutional Processing
5. The European Commission: Between continuity and change
Thomas Christiansen

6. Fluctuant Nec Merguntur: The European Parliament, national parliaments, and European integration
Katrin Auel and Berthold Rittberger

7. The Council of Ministers: Facilitating interaction and actorness in the EU
Thomas Christiansen

8. Judicial Law-Making and European Integration: The European Court of Justice
Margaret McCown

9. The EU Budgetary Procedure and the Constitutional Debate
Henrik Enderlein and Johannes Lindner

10. The Process of Enlargement: Processes, institutions and norms
Frank Schimmelfennig

Part 3. Channels of Representation
11. European Elections and the European Voter
Mark Franklin

12. Interest Groups and EU Policy-making: Organisational logic and venue shopping
Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson

13. Bypassing the Nation State? Regions and the EU policy process
Michael Keating and Elizabeth Hooghe

Part 4. A Supranational State?
14. The EU as an International Actor
Michael Smith

15. European Regulation
Mark Thatcher

16. European Macroeconomic Governance
Erik Jones

17. Implementation
Christoph Knill

18. After the 'Permissive Consensus': Still searching for democracy
Mike Newman