The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy provides an in-depth and systematic understanding of EU policies. It covers theoretical approaches on the policy process and the various stages of public policy formulation and decision making, and discusses key questions of contemporary European governance. The handbook introduces major concepts, trends, and methodologies in a variety of comparative settings thereby providing the first systematic effort to include theoretical and substantive analyses of European public policies in a single volume.
The handbook is divided into four sections:
- Concepts and approaches in EU policymaking;
- Substantive policies of the EU, including economic and social, fiscal and monetary, areas of freedom, security, and justice, and external policies;
- Elements of the policy cycle;
- Themes ranging from crisis and resistance to controversies in education.
This handbook will be an essential reference for students and scholars of the European Union, public policy, social policy, and more broadly for European and comparative politics.
1. EU Policymaking: Issues and Debates [ Laurie Buonanno and Nikolaos
Zahariadis] Section 1: Concepts and Approaches - Overview [ Nikolaos
Zahariadis]
2. Principal-agent Models [ Yannis Karagiannis and Mattia Guidi]
3. Regulatory Governance in the EU [ Alessandro Cagossi]
4. Multiple Streams
[ Nicole Herweg and Nikolaos Zahariadis]
5. Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
[ Christian Breunig, Daniela Beyer, and Marco Radojevic] Section 2:
Substantive Policies Overview [ Nikolaos Zahariadis] Part I: Economic and
Social
6. The Internal Market [ Laurie Buonanno]
7. EU Competition Rules and
the European Integration Project [ Angela Wigge and Hubert Buch-Hansen]
8.
Changing Governance of Cohesion Policy [ Carolyn Dudek]
9. Social Policy
[ Claire Dupuy and Sophie Jacquot]
10. Gender Policy [ Sophie Jacquot] Part II:
Fiscal and Monetary
11. Economic and Monetary Union [ Waltraud Schelkle]
12.
Banking Policy [ Stefaan DeRynck]
13. The Globalization Trilemma and the
EMUs Second-order Democratic Deficit [ Nikitas Konstantinidis and Ruben
Treurniet]
14. The EU Budget [ Gabriele Cipriani] Part III: Area of Freedom,
Security and Justice
15. European Immigration and Asylum Policy [ Alexander
Caviedes]
16. Police and Judicial Cooperation Policy [ Stephen Rozée,
Christian Kaunert and Sarah Léonard]
17. European Union Privacy and Data
Protection Policy [ George Christou] Part IV: External Policies
18. The Common
Foreign and Security Policy [ Sara Kahn-Nisser]
19. Trade Policy [ Holly
Jarman]
20. Enlargement Policy [ Neill Nugent]
21. The European Neighbourhood
Policy [ Mariam Dekanozishvili] Part V: Sectoral Policies
22. The CAP: Common
Dynamics of Policy Change in an Uncommon Policy Domain [ Gerry Alons and
Pieter Zwaan]
23. European Energy Policy [ Nicole Herweg]
24. EU Policy on the
Environment [ Jale Tosun] Section 3: The Policy Cycle - Overview [ Laurie
Buonanno]
25. Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in the European Union
[ Andreas Hofmann]
26. Agenda Setting in the European Union [ Petya Alexandrova
and Marcello Carammia]
27. Understanding the EU's Policymaking Institutions
[ John McCormick]
28. Strategic Framing and the European Commission [ Mark
Rhinard]
29. Implementation and Enforcement of EU Polices [ Gerda Falkner]
30.
If Evaluation is the Solution, What is the Problem? [ Claire A. Dunlop and
Claudio M. Radaelli] Section 4: Themes Part I: Crisis and Resistance -
Introduction [ Sabine Saurugger]
31. Resisting in Times of Crisis: The
Implementation of European Austerity Plans in Ireland and Greece [ Clément
Fontan, Sabine Saurugger and Nikolaos Zahariadis]
32. Resistance in European
Union Health Care Policy [ Scott L. Greer]
33. Evasion as a Mechanism of
Resistance (not only) to European Law [ Annette Elisabeth Töller] Part II:
Controversies in Education - Introduction [ Martina Vukasovic]
34. European
Level Policy Dynamics in Higher Education [ Martina Vukasovic]
35. The
Infusion of Europe in Public Policy: The Case of Higher Education [ Pauline
Ravinet]
Nikolaos Zahariadis is Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, USA. He previously served as Director of International Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has received numerous research fellowships and teaching awards.
Laurie Buonanno is Professor and Director of the Master of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management program at the State University of New York, Buffalo State, USA. Her research focuses on comparative public policy, comparative public administration, the European Union, and transatlantic relations.
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