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Understanding EU Policy
Making

Raj S. Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger

First published 2006 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
and 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

www.plutobooks.com

Copyright Raj S. Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger 2006

The right of Raj S. Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 0 7453 1971 8 hardback
ISBN 0 7453 1970 X paperback
ISBN 978 1 7837 1957 0 ePub
ISBN 978 1 7837 1958 7 Kindle

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Contents

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Acknowledgements

Books cannot be written in isolation: we are indebted to numerous people throughout the European Union and North America who have helped us along the way. This book was accomplished by fits and starts, and we sincerely thank Roger and the Pluto Press family, as well as Chris and all the staff in Curran Publishing Services in the UK for their encouragement, patience and constructive comments throughout the process.

Raj Chari is particularly indebted to the late Vincent Wright of Nuffield College, Oxford, a friend and mentor who helped inspire much of this book. Many of the tables and graphs presented in the Economic and Monetary Union Chapter were based on ideas he raised in one of his informal conversations in the late 1990s that (refreshingly) had little to do with political science in the first place. Sylvia Kritzinger also acknowledges scholars whose ideas have influenced this book, including Bob Jessop from the UK and Susie Pernicka and Monika Feigl-Heihs in Austria.

In Ireland, we are indebted to Eddie Hyland who read over the entire manuscript and whose theoretical ideas were invaluable for the conception of a European integration theory incorporating the concept of a dominant economic class. Many of these ideas served as a complement to those that have guided the book from its inception, raised by comparative politics scholars and political theorists in Canada; these included Hans Michelmann, Richard Nordhal and Duff Spafford from the University of Saskatchewan, as well as Grant Amyot and Phil Wood from Queens University (Ontario), where Raj Chari undertook his political science training.

We are deeply indebted to Arantza Gmez, of Trinitys Institute for International Integration Studies directed by Philip Lane, who offered her expertise in gathering the data for the empirical chapters. Freya Frank, formerly an undergraduate in Trinity, also provided essential background research assistance in the early phases, while Rory Costello, a Trinity post-grad, was invaluable in the final stages. Mary Brew, Billie Crosbie, Michael Gallagher, Eithne Healy, Michael Marsh and Alan Matthews of Trinity, as well as Francesco Cavatorta of Dublin City University, proved to be wonderful colleagues during the research and writing phases, offering solid insights from which this book has benefited. The MSc students (graduating class 20062007) taking Raj Charis class on public policy given at Trinitys Policy Institute offered brilliant comments on draft chapters from which this book has greatly benefited.

In Austria we thank Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib and Caroline Wrgtter for their insights into social policy, Martin Kniepert, Gertraud Fellner and Helga Plzl for their help with the CAP-chapter, and Irina Michalowitz for discussions on EU interest-group behaviour. Special thanks also from Sylvia Kritzinger to Franz Steinbauer, Alice Ludvig, Bettina Stadler and Tanja Schrott for their discussions and patience.

We also thank Martha Peach and Jos Elguero from Madrid as well as the several high-level officials in Spain who have offered their advice throughout. The various EU officials who have informally given us their interpretation of public policy dynamics in Europe over the last few years have also opened our eyes in many ways.

Finally, our families and friends, most particularly Celia Chari, Isabel Rozas, Ranga and Raji Chari, Julius and Johanna Kritzinger and Patrick Martini, stand above anyone for putting up with us while researching and writing this book. Of course as the usual rider goes any errors remain our own.

Acronyms

ACP	African, Caribbean and Pacific
AMUE	Association for the Monetary Union of Europe
BDI	Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (German employers association)
CAP	Common Agricultural Policy
CCME	Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe
CCP	Common Commercial Policy
CEC	Conference of European Churches
CEEP	Confdration Europenne des Employers Publics
CEOE	Confederacin Espaola de Organizaciones Empresariales (Spanish Employers Association)
CEPOL	European Police College
CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
CNPF	Conseil National du Patronat Francais (French employers association)
COGECA	General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation
COPA	Committee of Agricultural Organizations
COREPER	Committee of Permanent Representatives
CPE	Coordination Paysanne
DEC	Dominant Economic Class
DG	Directorate General
EAGGF	European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund
ECB	European Central Bank
ECJ	European Court of Justice
ECOFIN	Economic and Financial Affairs Council
ECOSOC	Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the EP
ECRE	European Council of Refugees and Exiles
ECSC	European Coal and Steel Community
EEA	European Economic Association
EEB	European Environment Bureau
EEC	European Economic Community
ELDR	Liberal Democrats
EMP	Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
EMS	European Monetary System
EMU	Economic and Monetary Union
EP	European Parliament
EPC	European Political Cooperation

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