Providing a full account of the process of European integration and of the nature of the European Union (EU), this book offers a highly useful, broad introduction, with full sections on theory, history, member states, institutions, and policies. It distinguishes itself from similar texts with its analysis of the main academic debates on the EU, including intergovernmentalism vs. supranationlism, issues of legitimacy, and the impact of globalization. Each chapter includes boxed features, diagrams, figures, and summary points to highlight key points and provide practical examples.

Politics in the European Union

History

Bache, Ian

George, Stephen

Europe

Oxford University Press

Politics in the European Union is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the EU. Unique in its in-depth coverage of the history of the EU, the book explores a wide range of topics including institutions and policies, making it a complete guide to understanding the complex nature of the EU. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been fully updated to include coverage of Brexit, the refugee crisis, and political developments within member states. The text is enriched with a wide range of learning features, including end of chapter questions, which are designed to stimulate critical thinking, suggested further reading, EU timelines, and illustrative figures to help students take their learning further.

Politics & Social Sciences

Bulmer, Simon

PARKER, OWEN

Burns, Charlotte

Politics & Government

Clearly structured into four parts, covering the theory and history of European integration, and the institutions and policies of the European Union, this text combines current academic debates with empirical data and offers a significantly expanded and more diverse discussion of EU theories than the previous edition.

Enhanced by an accessible writing style and a variety of pedagogical resources, Politics in the European Union offers an up-to-date, balanced, and comprehensive introduction to the field. The third edition features a new coauthor, Simon Bulmer, and adds chapters on the impact of the Lisbon Treaty; environmental policy; and freedom, security, and justice. Divided into four sections--theory, history, institutions, and policies--it opens with detailed coverage of key theoretical concepts, which are also integrated and referred back to throughout the book in order to help students draw links between the EU in theory and in practice. Ideal for students who are approaching the subject for the first time, Politics in the European Union, Third Edition, is accompanied by an extensive Companion Website. The site contains resources for students--an interactive map of Europe, an interactive timeline of European integration, multiple-choice questions, a flashcard glossary, and related links--and instructors--PowerPoint-based slides (new to this edition), essay questions, seminar questions and activities, and figures and tables from the book.

Enhanced by an accessible writing style and a variety of pedagogical resources, Politics in the European Union, Fourth Edition, offers an up-to-date, balanced, and comprehensive introduction to the field by four expert authors. Divided into four sections--theory, history, institutions, and policies--it opens with detailed coverage of key theoretical concepts, which are also integrated and referred back to throughout the book in order to help students draw links between the EU in theory and in practice. Ideal for students who are approaching the subject for the first time, Politics in the European Union, Fourth Edition, incorporates a range of pedagogical features including insight boxes and a chronology. It is accompanied by an extensive Companion Website that contains resources for students--an interactive map of Europe, an interactive timeline of European integration, multiple-choice questions, a flashcard glossary, and related links--and instructors--PowerPoint-based slides, essay and seminar questions, and boxes and figures from the text.

Foreign & International Law

Europeanization and Multilevel Governance: Cohesion Policy in the European Union and Britain (Governance in Europe Series)

Europeanization has become a major theme within European studies in recent years, emphasizing the domestic effects of the EU on its member and applicant states. At the same time, multi-level governance has emerged as an important concept, highlighting shifts both in horizontal relations between state and society and in vertical links between actors at different territorial levels. In this state-of-the-art study, Ian Bache traces the relationship between these two key elements, considering the extent to which Europeanization advances multi-level governance within member states through the requirements of EU cohesion policy. Bache focuses especially on Britain, a member state whose political system has been increasingly characterized by multilevel governance since it became an EU member. Comparing Britain's case to that of ten other member states, the author distinguishes between the EU's effects in simple polities_in which voice, influence, and power are diffused through multiple levels and modes of governance_and in compound polities, where voice, influence, and power are more concentrated. Bringing together the conceptual tools of multilevel governance and policy networks and developing a framework for using these tools together in future research, this clearly written study will be valuable for scholars and students of EU and British politics.

Legal Theory & Systems

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing, that reflect new thinking on 'what matters' and challenge established notions of societal progress. The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing provides the first theoretically grounded and empirically informed account of the rise and significance of wellbeing in contemporary politics and policy.
Drawing on theories of agenda-setting and policy change, Ian Bache and Louise Reardon consider whether wellbeing can be described as 'an idea whose time has come'. The book reflects on developments across the globe and provides a detailed comparative analysis of two political arenas: the UK and the EU. Offering the first reflection grounded in evidence of the potential for wellbeing to be paradigm changing, the authors identify the challenge of bringing wellbeing into policy as a 'wicked problem' that policymakers are only now beginning to grapple with.
This pioneering account of wellbeing from a political science perspective is a unique and valuable contribution to the field. The authors' theoretical and empirical conclusions are of great interest to scholars of politics and wellbeing alike.

The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing: Understanding the Rise and Significance of a New Agenda

Reardon, Louise

Anthropology

Edward Elgar Publishing

This book provides an over-view of the key developments in the politics of European Union regional policy from the creation of the EEC to the present day. The discussion of 'who decides what and to what effect' in relation to regional policy is part of the contemporary academic debate about the nature of politics and policy-making in the EU. Bache argues that no single theory can explain the complex politics of EU regional policy-making. In particular, current theories pay insufficient attention to the importance of implementation in shaping policy outcomes. The book concludes that the application of different analytical tools at different stages of policy-making provides the fullest picture of the politics of EU regional policy. This title is published in conjunction with UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies. UACES web site can be found at www.uaces.org

Politics of European Union Regional Policy: Multi-Level Governance or Flexible Gatekeeping? (Contemporary European Studies)

Business & Money

Economics

Sheffield Academic+press

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the evidence and policy relationship. The book has three main aims: to understand the role of evidence in shaping the prospects for wellbeing in public policy; to inform the barriers literature on the use of evidence in policy; and, to inform the multiple streams approach (MSA) to agenda-setting. While the book focuses on developments at UK government level, a number of the findings and arguments presented here have wider significance, both in relation to wellbeing developments elsewhere and to the theoretical literatures on agenda-setting and evidence use. The book draws on insights from interviews with policy-makers and stakeholders that were undertaken as part of the work of the Community Wellbeing Evidence Programme of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.

Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing (Wellbeing in Politics and Policy)

Sociology

Palgrave Pivot

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Politics in the European Union

Politics in the European Union

Politics in the European Union

Politics in the European Union

Politics in the European Union

Europeanization and Multilevel Governance: Cohesion Policy in the European Union and Britain (Governance in Europe Series)

The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing: Understanding the Rise and Significance of a New Agenda

Politics of European Union Regional Policy: Multi-Level Governance or Flexible Gatekeeping? (Contemporary European Studies)

Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing (Wellbeing in Politics and Policy)