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Economic government of the EU : a balance sheet of new modes of policy coordination
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Palgrave studies in European Union politics
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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xvii, 267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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9781403935809
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The creation of Monetary Union marked a major step in the evolution of the European Union. Is the EU now taking the next step of deeper integration towards a fully-fledged economic government? The book seeks to answer this question by studying the evolution, execution and performance of new modes of economic policy co-ordination as potential stepping-stones towards more institutionalized forms of economic governance.


Author Notes

INES HARTWIG Administrator in the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal OpportunitiesKERSTIN JACOBSSON Associate Professor of Sociology, Södertörn University College and Research Fellow at Score (Stockholm Center for Organizational Research) at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenTOBIAS KUNSTEIN Student of Economics and Political Science, University of Cologne, GermanyJACQUES LE CACHEUX Professor of Economics, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, FranceFLORENCE TOUYA currently completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Pau, FranceGABY UMBACH Research Associate at the Jean-Monnet Chair for Political Science, University of Cologne, GermanyÅSA VIFELL Researcher in Political Science, Stockholm University and Score, Sweden


Table of Contents

Stepping Stones towards an Economic Government for Europe?
Why Study Modes of Self Coordination?C.O.Meyer and W.Wessels and I.Linsenmann
Section 1 Theoretical Approaches to Changes of Governing Modes
The Emergence and Functioning of Policy Coordination: Legal Framework, History and TypologyI.Linsenmann and C.O.Meyer
The Living Constitution of Economic Governance: A Neo-Institutionalist Approach to Theorising IntegrationC.O.Meyer and I.Linsenmann and W.Wessels
To Coordinate or not to Coordinate?
The Economic Rationale for Fiscal Policy Coordination in the Euro ZoneJ.Le Cacheux
Section 2 Modes of Policy Coordination in Action: Adaptation and Response Across Levels and Policy Fiields
New Governance Structures in Employment Policy Making?
Taking Stock of the European Employment StrategyK.Jacobsson and A.Vifell
The Dismal Record of the Stability and Growth PactJ.Le Cacheux and F.Touya
Europeanization Through Policy Coordination?
Comparing and Understanding National Adaptation PatternsC.O.Meyer and G.Umbach
Section 3 Six Years of Policy Coordination: Discerning Trends and Testing Theories
Towards a Communitarisation?
Spill-overs between Structural Funds and the European Employment StrategyI.Hartwig
Towards a Horizontal Fusion of Governing Structures?
Coordination of Coordination Processes through the Broad Economic Policy GuidelinesI.Linsenmann
Towards Deliberative Supranationalism?
Analysing the Role of Committee Interaction in Soft Co-ordinationK.Jacobsson and A.Vifell
A 'Grand Débat Européen' on Economic Governance?
Publicised Discourses as Indicators for the Performance of Policy Coordination ModesC.O.Meyer and Tobias Kunstein
Section 4 What Kind Of Economic Governance For What Kind Of Union?
Multi-level Institutionalism, Loose Policy Coordination and the Limits of EU Economic GovernanceC.O.Meyer
New Rules, New Paths?
The Prospect for Economic Governance after the Convention and the Intergovernmental ConferenceI.Linsenmann and W.Wessels