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This book analyses the institutional and administrative achievements of the Lisbon agenda, most ambitious plan of the European Union over the last ten years. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms to ensure compliance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

The role of political parties in immigration control and integration policy in Europe is underestimated, and parties on the centre-right are particularly important and interesting in this respect. This volume brings together experts on both migration and political parties in order to study the impacts, dilemmas and trade-offs involved.

This book analyses current moves of Western democratic welfare states away from compartmentalized sectoral governance arrangements towards more open, contested and networked politics. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The Journal of European Public Policy.

Previously published as a special issue of the "Journal of European Public Policy", this book draws on the insights of the literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. It is of interest to students and scholars of policy analysis and public policy.

This volume examines the degree of success by which EU policies have attempted to manage globalization in a variety of policy areas.This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

This research volume scrutinizes the role of political parties in all European institutions drawing upon elite interviews, case studies and statistical analysis.

The European Court of Justice has long played a powerful role promoting deeper European integration, but today the Court faces unprecedented challenges and criticism. This book explores whether the ECJ can sustain its role as a motor of integration in the face of these countervailing forces.It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms to ensure compliance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Public Policy.

To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these questions, and is intended for students and scholars of the European Union, European politics, and international relations.

This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. Blending insights from international relations and democratic theory it aims at enhancing our understanding of the issues at stake. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy

This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to address the key themes and challenges that governance by and with agencies in the EU poses to effective and legitimate policy-making.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage? This book asks this question, investigating the frequent political assumption that the more cohesive the EU presents itself to the world, the more effective it is in achieving its goals. Contributions to this book explore this theory from a range of perspectives, from trade to foreign policy, and highlight complex patterns between internal cohesiveness and external effectiveness. These are simplified into three possible configurations: internal cohesiveness has a positive impact on external effectiveness; internal cohesiveness has no impact on external effectiveness; and internal cohesiveness has a negative impact on external effectiveness. The international context in which the EU operates, which includes the bargaining configuration and the policy arena, functions as an intervening variable that helps us to explain variation in these causal links. The book also launches a research agenda aimed at explaining these patterns more systematically and determining the marginal impact of cohesiveness on effectiveness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competencies spans over three dimensions: upwards, sideways, and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. Chapters discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the ways in which we add to this research agenda. Some general conclusions are also outlined, indicating future avenues of research. Taken together, the collection contributes answers to the challenge of defining and measuring - in a comparative way - the control and co-ordination mechanisms which power dispersion generates. In sum, the collection explores the tension between political actors'' quest for autonomy and the acknowledgement of their interdependence whilst revealing how, as power dispersion deepens, central governments have sought to both manage and limit it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.