The European Union at an Inflection Point
The cutting-edge contributions to this book analyse different facets of the European Union (EU): closer integration among the member states, policymaking within a normal political system, and the implications of European integration for its member states. This book also considers whether the challenges currently confronting the EU the lingering Eurozone debt crises, the migrant/refugee crisis, the British decision to leave the EU, and terrorist attacks in Belgium, France and Germany mark an inflection point for the Union and for the study of the EU. For the first time, less Europe, rather than closer integration, has emerged as a serious option in response to crisis. This possibility reignites questions of (dis)integration and calls into question the assumption of the EU as a normal political system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Alasdair R. Young is a Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Co-Director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. He is the chair of the European Union Studies Association (USA) (20152017).
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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.
The European Union
Integration and enlargement
Edited by R. Daniel Kelemen, Anand Menon and Jonathan Slapin
Coping with Power Dispersion?
Autonomy, co-ordination and control in multi-level systems
Edited by Mads Dagnis Jensen, Christel Koop and Michal Tatham
European Democracy as Demoi-cracy
Edited by Francis Cheneval, Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig
Speaking with a Single Voice
The EU as an effective actor in global governance?
Edited by Eugnia da Conceio-Heldt and Sophie Meunier
European Integration in Times of Crisis
Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Demosthenes Ioannou, Patrick Leblond and Arne Niemann
Legislative Lobbying in Context
The policy and polity determinants of interest group politics in the European Union
Edited by Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun and Heike Klver
Differentiated Integration in the European Union
Edited by Benjamin Leruth and Christopher Lord
The European Union as a Global Regulator
Edited by Alasdair R. Young
Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy
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The European Union at an Inflection Point
(Dis)integrating or the New Normal?
Edited by
Alasdair R. Young
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Contents
Alasdair R. Young
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Ludivine Damay and Heidi Mercenier
Steven Lloyd Wilson, Nils Ringe and Jack van Thomme
Viviane Gravey and Andrew Jordan
Natasha Wunsch
Anke Hassel, Jette Steen Knudsen and Bettina Wagner
Deborah Mabbett
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
An inflection point in European Union studies?
Alasdair R. Young
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11091117
Chapter 2
Mapping European law
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11181138
Chapter 3
Free movement and EU citizenship: a virtuous circle?
Ludivine Damay and Heidi Mercenier
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11391157
Chapter 4
Policy leadership and re-election in the European Parliament
Steven Lloyd Wilson, Nils Ringe and Jack van Thomme
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11581179
Chapter 5
Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Policy dismantling in a hyperconsensual polity
Viviane Gravey and Andrew Jordan
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11801198
Chapter 6
Coming full circle? Differential empowerment in Croatias EU accession process
Natasha Wunsch
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 11991217
Chapter 7
Winning the battle or losing the war: the impact of European integration on labour market institutions in Germany and Denmark
Anke Hassel, Jette Steen Knudsen and Bettina Wagner
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 12181239
Chapter 8
The minimum wage in Germany: what brought the state in?
Deborah Mabbett
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 23, issue 8 (September 2016) pp. 12401258