The institutionalization of Europe

Book abstract:

The book gives a theoretical account of the development of the European Union. Acting as a companion volume to European Integration and Supranational Governance, it uses institutionalist theory to explain the sources and consequences of the emergence of the European Union. The chapters in the book are based on papers presented at a conference in March 2000 at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study, European University Institute, Florence. The contributors are academics from universities in the United States and Europe.

The book is divided into the three parts the first of which addresses general processes of institutionalisation in the European Union. This includes chapters entitled: Institutionalizing the Treaty of Rome; Overt and Covert Institutionalization in Europe; Institutionalizing Promiscuity - Commission Interest Group Relations in the European Union. The second part explores how specific European policy spaces have emerged, mutated and stabilised over time. Chapters include: The Institutionalzation of European Administrative Space; Judicial Rulemaking and the Institutionalization of European Union Sex Equality Policy; When National and European Policy Domains Collide. The third part examines the creation of new policy spaces. Chapters include: The Creation of the European Central Bank; Institutional Dilemnas of External action from Maastricht and Amsterdam; Policing and Immigration - The Creation of New Policy Spaces.

The book is aimed at students and academics with an interest in the European Union, integration or supranational governance.

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