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The European Union and the Asia-Pacific Media, Public and Elite Perceptions of the EU Edited by Natalia Chaban and Martin Holland, both at University of Canterbury, New Zealand Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies This text identifies, measures and compares public awareness and perceptions of the EU within the AsiaPacific region and deals with the public perception of the EU outside the Union and the role of the media in shaping such perceptions. Selected Contents: Introduction: Research Rationale 1. Mirror Reflections? 2. The European Union in Metaphors: Images of the EU Enlargement in the Asia-Pacific News 3. Exposure, Accessibility, and Difference: How Australians and New Zealanders Perceive Europe and the European Union 4. Bringing Public Opinion Back In: Public Perceptions of the EU in Thailand and South Korea 5. Europe From Within, Europe from Without: Understanding Spontaneous Perceptions of the European Union in the Asia-Pacific 6. What Australians Think About the EU 7. The Asia-Pacific Power Elite and the Soft Superpower. Appendix 1: Media Environments and Sample Selection. Appendix 2: Portrait of the Survey Respondents: Australia and New Zealand. Appendix 3: Portrait of the Survey Respondents: South Korea and Thailand. Appendix 4: Elite Interview Questionnaires May 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-42138-6: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-92745-8
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
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Edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Penn State University, USA, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Aarhas University, Denmark and Bryan D. Jones, Washington University of St Louis, USA Series: European Public Policy Series Selected Contents: 1. Agenda-Setting in Comparative Perspective 2. The Policy Agendas Project: A Review 3. Timing and Sequence in Agenda Setting and Policy Change: A Comparative Study of Lawn Care Pesticide Politics in Canada and the U.S. 4. Legislative Priorities and Public Opinion: Representation of Partisan Agendas in the Canadian House of Commons 5. Policy with or without Parties? A Comparative Analysis of Policy Priorities and Policy Change in Belgium, 1991-2000 6. How Agenda-Setting Attributes Shape Politics: Basic Dilemmas, Problem Attention, and Health Politics – Developments in the U.S. and Denmark 7. Explaining Policy Change: The Impact of the Media, Public Opinion and Political Violence on Urban Budgets in England 8. The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: A Comparative Analysis of Budget Punctuations 9. Punctuated Equilibrium in the French Budgeting Process 10. The Political Flow of Wisdom: Science Institutions as Policy Venues in The Netherlands 11. Crashing and Creeping: Agenda Setting Dynamics in the European Union 2007: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-42087-7: £70.00 US $140.00
The International Politics of Democratization Comparative Perspectives Edited by Nuno Severiano Teixeira, New University of Lisbon, Portugal and Minister of National Defence of the Portuguese Government Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors have an influence on what were once thought of as exclusively domestic processes of political change. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Connecting Democracy Promotion and Protection with the Theory and Evaluating its Impact on the Practice of Democratization 2. The International Politics of Democratization from Portugal: A Reassessment (1974) to Iraq (2003) 3. International Factors in Democratization, their Scope and Limitations: European Comparative Perspectives on the Post-Cold War World 4. The International Dimension of Democratization: The Spanish Transition 5. Continuity and Change: The Foreign Policy of Portuguese Democracy 6. Re-Defining Eastern Europe: Democratization in Central and South-Eastern Europe 7. The International Dimensions of Democratization: The Case of Argentina 8. International Dimensions of Democratization: Brazil 9. External Dimensions of Democratization: The Case of the Middle East 10. Democracy and the Muslim World. Conclusions June 2008: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-45303-5: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-93877-5
EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies Edited by David Coen, University College London, UK EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies offers an analysis of large empirical studies of interest group politics and Lobbying in Europe. It assesses the logic of collective and direct action, the logic of access and influence, the logic of venue-shopping and alliance building. Selected Contents: EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies David Coen. Lobbying Activity and Fora Creation in the EU: Empirically Exploring the Nature of the Policy Good Andreas Broscheid and David Coen. Networking vs. Allying: The Decision of Interest Groups to Join Coalitions in the US and the EU Christine Mahoney. The Access of Business Interests to EU Political Institutions: Towards Elite Pluralsm? Rainer Eising. The Impact of the Traditional Business-Government Relationship upon the Europeanization of Japanese Firms Yukihiko Hamada. Lobbying versus Litigation: Political and Legal Strategies of Interest Representation in the European Union Peter Bouwen and Margaret McCown. With a Little Help from the State: Interest Intermediation in the Domestic Pre-Negotiations of the EU Gerald Schneider, Daniel Finke and Konstantin Baltz. Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups Jan Beyers and Bart Kerremans. Commentary EU Lobbying: A View from the US Frank R. Baumgartner March 2008: 234x156: 172pp Hb: 978-0-415-44917-5: £75.00 US $150.00
Efficiency and Legitimacy in European Commission Committees Karen Heard-Laureote, Portsmouth University, UK Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies Through a comparative analysis of three European Commission advisory committees comprising organized civil society actors, this volume investigates the capacity to improve system effectiveness and provide efficiency gains as well as sustain adequate democratic credentials. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Part 1: 2. European Integration, the European Commission and its Committees: Efficiency First, Legitimacy Later? 3. Efficiency Gains via Committee Governance Part 2: 4. The Agricultural Advisory Committees: Legitimacy on the Back Burner? 5. The EU Eco-labelling Board 6. The Trade Contact Group 7. Conclusions July 2009: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-43582-6: £70.00 US $140.00
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Reforming the European Commission Edited by Michael W. Bauer, University of Konstanz, Germany
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European Union Governance
This book asks three crucial questions about recent administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible; what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organization; what is the likely impact for the policy process? Selected Contents: 1. Mission Impossible but Mission Accomplished? The Kinnock Reforms and the European Commission 2. Explaining Variation in Organizational Change: The Reform of Human resource Management in the European Commission and the OECD 3. Enlargement, Reform and the European Commission. Weathering a Perfect Storm? 4. Diffuse Anxieties, Deprived Entrepreneurs. Commission Reform and Middle Management 5. Reforming the Commission: Between Modernization and Bureaucratization 6. The Kinnock Reform and Institutional Change in the European Commission 7. Conduct, Context, and the Dynamics of Administrative Practice: The Commission’s Strategic Planning and Programming Unit under the Prodi-Kinnock Reforms 8. European Commission Reform and the Origins of the European Transparency Initiative December 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-46629-5: £70.00 US $140.00
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Contesting Citizenship Edited by Birte Siim, Aalborg University, Denmark and Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UK Previously published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, this book shows how citizenship has become a vital site of contestation. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Recognition Struggles in Trans-national Arenas: Negotiating Identities and Framing Citizenship 2. Dilemmas of Citizenship in the Enlarging Europe: Negotiating Diversity within Equality across the East-West Divide 3. Public Philosophies on Headscarves: A Cross-National European Comparison 4. Gender Justice and Dynamic Politics of Rights 5. The Challenge of Recognizing Diversity from the Perspective of Gender Equality 6. Realizing a Differentiated Citizenship: Deliberative Democracy and Diversity Mainstreaming 7. Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belonging March 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-36671-7: £65.00
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