1st Edition

The Political Economy of Europe's Incomplete Single Market

Edited By David Howarth, Tal Sadeh Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held back in the varied implementation of European Union competition policy, variation in national policies... Read more

1. Preface David Howarth and Tal Sadeh  2. The Ever Incomplete Single Market: Differentiation and the Evolving Frontier of Integration David Howarth and Tal Sadeh  3. Single Market, Global Competition: Regulating the European Market in a Global Economy Mitchell P. Smith  4. Discretion by the Rules: European State Aid Policy and the 1999 Procedural Regulation Nikolaos Zahariadis  5. Are You Being Served? Europeanizing and Re-Regulating the Single Market in Services Georg Menz  6. The Political Economy of Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the Single Market  Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Julio Revuelta  7. Completing the Single Market in Financial Services: The Politics of Competing Advocacy Coalitions Lucia Quaglia  8. Stakes and States: Gambling and the Single Market Vincent Della Sala  9. Let’s Get Physical: The European Commission and Cultivated Spillover in Completing the Single Market’s Transport Infrastructure Paul Stephenson  10. Does Europeanization Lead to Policy Convergence? The Role of the Single Market in shaping National Tax Policies Achim Kemmerling

Biography

David Howarth is a Jean Monnet Chair and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or co-author of three books including The ECB: the New European Leviathan, Palgrave, 2005, revised second and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Economic and Monetary Union, the political economy of European integration and comparative political economy.

Tal Sadeh is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University.