Societal Actors in European Integration [electronic resource] : Polity-Building and Policy-making 1958-1992 /
Meyer, Jan-Henrik.author.
Kaiser, W.editor.
Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been closely involved in European integration from the founding of the EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss the participation of political parties, business groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building and policy-making.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration; 2 Europeanization of Christian Democracy? Negotiating Organization, Enlargement, Policy and Allegiance in the European People's Party; 3 Shaping European Development Policy? Socialist Parties as Mediators from the International to the European Level; 4 Regulating Markets: Peak Business Associations and the Origins of European Competition Policy
5 Developing a 'European Strategy': Business Groups and Trade Policy-Making in the Kennedy Round6 Preventing Reform: Farm Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy; 7 From Development Business to Civil Society? Societal Actors in Development Cooperation; 8 Demanding Democracy in the Workplace: The European Trade Union Confederation and the Struggle to Regulate Multinationals; 9 Establishing a Constitutional Practice: The Role of the European Law Associations; 10 Challenging the Atomic Community: The European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest
11 Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration Since 199212 Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration; Index
Includes index.
Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been closely involved in European integration from the founding of the EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss the participation of political parties, business groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building and policy-making.
European Union.
European Union.
European Union.
World politics.
European Union.
Europe-Politics and government.
Political science.
International relations.
Political History.
European Union Politics.
European Politics.
Political Science.
International Relations.