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.
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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration; W.Kaiser & J-H.Meyer Europeanization of Christian Democracy? Negotiating Organization, Enlargement, Policy and Allegiance in the European People’s Party; W.Kaiser Shaping European Development Policy? Socialist Parties as Mediators from the International to the European Level; C.Salm Regulating Markets: Peak Business Associations and the Origins of European Competition Policy; W.Bührer & L.Warlouzet Developing a ‘European strategy’: Business Groups and Trade Policy-making in the Kennedy Round; L.Coppolaro Preventing Reform: Farm Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy; C.Germond From Development Business to Civil Society? Societal Actors in Development Cooperation; M.Rempe Demanding Democracy in the Workplace: The European Trade Union Confederation and the Struggle to Regulate Multinationals; F.Petrini Establishing a Constitutional Practice: The Role of the European Law Associations; M.Rasmussen Challenging the Atomic Community: The European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest; J-H.Meyer Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration since 1992; K.Heard-Lauréote Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration; W.Kaiser & J-H.Meyer
Circa l’autore
Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
Jan-Henrik Meyer is Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
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