The Political Economy of Europes Incomplete Single Market
Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held back in the varied implementation of European Union competition policy, variation in national policies on services, corporate law, telecommunications, energy, taxation, and gambling, and the EUs uneven transportation network. These sectors and issue-areas form the frontier at which the main political struggles over the future shape of the SM have taken place in the past decade. Broadly, progress in economic integration in the EU has been complicated by the need to reconcile perfections to the SM with the global competitiveness of European producers, and efficiency gains with ideational and normative concerns. In services, there is a clash between deregulation and social policy. Financial integration has had to reconcile different institutionalized views among the member states about the place of finance in the economy and society. The SM notion supposedly entails a concrete set of substantive policy commitments that form the basis of the ever closer union. However, increasing differentiation in the SM undermines the identification of the EUs core constitutional commitments.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
David Howarth is a Jean Monnet Chair and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or co-author of four books including The ECB: the New European Leviathan, Palgrave, 2005, revised second edition and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Economic and Monetary Union, the political economy of European integration and comparative political economy.
Tal Sadeh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of the book Sustaining European Monetary Union, Lynne Rienner, 2006, and has published articles and edited special issues in leading academic journals on the political economy of the EU, in particular the single currency and EU-Israeli relations. In 2005-2009 he was co-chair (with David Howarth) of the Political Economy Interest Section of European Union Studies Association (EUSA).
Journal of European Public Policy Series
Series Editor: Jeremy Richardson is a Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University
This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.
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The Disparity of European Integration
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Civilian or Military Power?
European Foreign Policy in Perspective
Edited by Helene Sjursen
The European Union and New Trade Politics
Edited by John Peterson and Alasdair R. Young
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
Edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan D. Jones
The Constitutionalization of the European Union
Edited by Berthold Rittberger and Frank Schimmelfenig
Empirical and Theoretical Studies in EU Lobbying
Edited by David Coen
Mutual Recognition as a New Mode of Governance
Edited by Susanne K. Schmidt
France and the European Union
Edited by Emiliano Grossman
Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe
Edited by Tim Bale
Reforming the European Commission
Edited by Michael W. Bauer
International Influence Beyond Conditionality
Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement
Edited by Rachel A. Epstein and Ulrich Sedelmeier
The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
Edited by Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen
EU External Governance
Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership
Edited by Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig
EMU and Political Science
What Have We Learned?
Edited by Henrik Enderlein and Amy Verdun
Learning and Governance in the EU Policy Making Process
Edited by Anthony R. Zito
Political Representation and EU Governance
Edited by Peter Mair and Jacques Thomassen
Europe and the Management of Globalization
Edited by Wade Jacoby and Sophie Meunier
Negotiation Theory and the EU
The State of the Art
Edited by Andreas Dr, Gemma Mateo and Daniel C. Thomas
The Political Economy of Europes Incomplete Single Market
Edited by David Howarth and Tal Sadeh
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