institutional dynamics and prospects for democracy /
edited by Karlheinz Neunreither and Antje Wiener.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-378) and index.
Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond / Antje Wiener and Karlheinz Neunreither -- The Amsterdam Treaty: the blueprint for the future institutional balance? / Gerda Falkner and Michael Nentwich -- The European Commission: a balancing act between autonomy and dependence / Christian Lequesne -- The slow march of European legislation: the implementation of directives / Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi -- Beyond Amsterdam: regional integration as social process / Beate Kohler-Koch -- Executive selection in the European Union: does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the Democratic deficit? / Simon Hix -- Justifying comitology: the promise of deliberation / Jürgen Neyer -- Political representation in the European Union: a common whole, various wholes, or just a hole? / Karlheinz Neunreither -- Negotiating flexible integration in the Amsterdam Treaty / Alexander C.-G. Stubb -- Flexibility: a tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration? / Helen Wallace -- Abuses of asymmetry: privilege and exclusion / Peter Leslie -- East of Amsterdam: the implications of the Amsterdam Treaty for eastern enlargement / Ulrich Sedelmeier -- Precedents and present events in the European Union: an institutional perspective on treaty reform / Ulf Sverdrup -- A Blairite treaty: neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam / Mark A. Pollack -- Constitutional settlements and the citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam / Jo Shaw -- The embedded acquis communautaire: transmission belt and prism of new governance / Antje Wiener.
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"The contributors address questions such as; what are the likely effects of the Amsterdam treaty changes in comparison with Maastricht?; how will these changes effect the complex balance among the governing institutions of the EU?; and what will be the implications for the lingering quest for democracy?"--Jacket.
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