Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union [Hardcover]

Who really participates in the European policy process? This study by a multinational team of experts examines the interplay between organized interests, member governments, and the European institutions to show that emerging patterns of European governance are starting to produce some policy outcomes that are different from those generated in national settings.

Introductory Foreword,Keith Richardson
1. Introduction,Helen Wallace
2. The Growth and Differentiation of Multi-Level Networks: A Corporatist Mega-Bureaucracy or an Open City?,Wolfgang Wessels
3. Organized Interests in European Integration: The Evolution of a New Type of Governance,Beate Kohler-Koch
4. Making and Enforcing Regulatory Policy in the Single Market,Ernesto Previdi
5. The Commission as an Actor: An Anthropologist's View,Ir?ne Bellier
6. Organizing Industrial Coalitions: A Challenge for the Future?,Maria Green Cowles
7. The Interplay of Corporate, National, and European Interests,Elie Cohen
8. The Changing Dynamic of EU-Industry Relations: Lessons from the Liberalization of European Car and Airline Markets,Peter Holmes and Francis McGowan
9. Big Firms as Political Actors: Corporate Power and the Governance of the European Consumer Electronics Industry,Alan Cawson
10. Consumption without Representation? Consumers in the Single Market,Alasdair R. Young
11. The Kaleidoscope of European Policy-Making: Shifting Patterns of Participation and Influence,Helen Wallace and Alasdair R. Young