Title: The 'community method' : obstinate or obsolete? /
Authors: Dehousse, Renaud.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2011
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.; Supranationalism European Union countries.; Intergovernmental cooperation European Union countries.; Environmental policy European Union countries; Economic policy; Environmental policy.; Intergovernmental cooperation; Social policy; Supranationalism; European Union countries Economic policy.; European Union countries Social policy.
Abstract: Europe is said to be in crisis. National leaders can seem to be more concerned with domestic issues than with identifying options which serve the interests of all European states, and a decade of institutional debate has not provided European citizens with a clear sense of direction. The European Union is often slow to respond to the crises with which it is faced and the quality of its responses€has been€called into question. € Sixty years after its invention, the operational system of the European Union still remains little-understood. This book provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of its functioning and achievements. The purpose of the volume, which includes contributions from leading scholars, is twofold. First, it aims to improve our understanding of the operation of the 'Community method, ' shedding new light on its successes and failures.€Secondly, it discusses to what extent the EU of today can be said to still be operating according to this model.
Contents: Introduction -- The Community Method at Sixty / Renaud Dehousse -- Is the Community Method Still Viable? / Giandomenico Majone -- II. The Community Method at Work / Law-Making in the Shadow of Judicial Politics / Susanne K. Schmidt / The European Parliament and the Community Method / Olivier Costa -- Conflict Resolution in the Council by Linkage of Commission Proposals / Thomas König and Dirk Junge -- III. Alternatives to the Community Method -- The Political and Security Committee : a Case Study in 'Supranational Intergovernmentalism' / Jolyon Howorth -- Deviations from and Alternatives to the Community Method in Justice and Home Affairs / Jörg Monar -- Is the Open Method of Coordination an Alternative to the Community Method? / Jonathan Zeitlin -- IV. Revisiting the Debate on New Modes of Governance -- In the Shadow of Hierarchy : The Community Method as an Instrument of Government / Laura Cram -- Social Europe: Why Hard Law remains Important / Philippe Pochet -- The 'Governance Turn' Revisited / Laurie Boussaguet, Renaud Dehousse and Sophie Jacquot -- Conclusion : Obstinate or Obsolete? / Renaud Dehousse.