Adapting to European Integration

Adapting to European Integration
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781317888864
ISBN-13 : 1317888863
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Synopsis Adapting to European Integration by : Kenneth Hanf

Adapting to European Integration describes how the political institutions in eight small member states and two non-members responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration in general and EC/EU membership in particular. The study makes a distinction between governmental/administrative adaptation, political adaptation and strategic adaptation. The chapters focus, in the first instance, on the governmental/administrative responses at the level of central government, the organisational adjustments and the changes in institutional capacity to meet the new challenges. The authors also look at the willingness of the political decision-makers to internalise the EC/EU dimension in domestic policy making and the way in which the country's own history as well as the attitude towards European integration facilitate or hinder adaptation and change.

European Integration and National Adaptations

European Integration and National Adaptations
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Publisher : Nova Publishers
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 1560722916
ISBN-13 : 9781560722915
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis European Integration and National Adaptations by : Hans Mouritzen

European Integration & National Adaptations A Theoretical Inquiry

Climate Change Policy in the European Union

Climate Change Policy in the European Union
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 9781139486026
ISBN-13 : 1139486020
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Climate Change Policy in the European Union by : Andrew Jordan

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in the international struggle to govern climate change. The transformation that has occurred in its policies and institutions has profoundly affected climate change politics at the international level and within its 27 Member States. But how has this been achieved when the EU comprises so many levels of governance, when political leadership in Europe is so dispersed and the policy choices are especially difficult? Drawing on a variety of detailed case studies spanning the interlinked challenges of mitigation and adaptation, this volume offers an unrivalled account of how different actors wrestled with the complex governance dilemmas associated with climate policy making. Opening up the EU's inner workings to non-specialists, it provides a perspective on the way that the EU governs, as well as exploring its ability to maintain a leading position in international climate change politics.

Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform

Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780198793397
ISBN-13 : 0198793391
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Constitutional Preferences and Parliamentary Reform by : Thomas Winzen

Advancing an explanation based on political parties' constitutional preferences, this volume investigates the nature and variation of parliamentary rights in European Union affairs across countries and levels of governance.

European Integration and Political Conflict

European Integration and Political Conflict
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0521535050
ISBN-13 : 9780521535052
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Synopsis European Integration and Political Conflict by : Gary Marks

In this 2004 volume, a formidable group of scholars investigate patterns of conflict that are arising in the European Union.

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780128498750
ISBN-13 : 0128498757
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Synopsis Adapting to Climate Change in Europe by : Hans Sanderson

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Exploring Sustainable Pathways - From Local Measures to Wider Policies is a scientific synthesis of a four-year project on adaptation activities in Europe. It combines scientific assessments with real-world case descriptions to present specific tools and methods. This book aims at ensuring sustainable solutions in adaptation to climate change. The challenge of adaptation is still at an early stage; this book fills relevant gaps in current knowledge on climate adaptation, providing a crucial set of tools to support effective decision-making. It acts as a guide to practitioners and decision-makers along different steps of on-going adaptation processes. Adapting to Climate Change in Europe contains methods and tools for improving stakeholder's participation and analyzing costs and benefits of different adaptation measures. It is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and experts and policymakers working in climate change and adaptation. - Features real world case studies providing a tool for comparative learning - Fulfills the current knowledge gap in climate change adaptation - Includes top-down economic models allowing for a novel application and integration of adaptation features in European and global models - Provides in-depth analysis of participation using new empirical material and approaches

Transforming Europe

Transforming Europe
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781501723575
ISBN-13 : 150172357X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Transforming Europe by : Maria Green Cowles

Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the effects of Europeanization on the EU member states. The various chapters, based on cutting-edge research, examine the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity, and citizenship norms.The European Union, the authors find, does indeed make a difference—even in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. In many cases EU rules and regulations incompatible with domestic institutions have created pressure for national governments to adapt. This volume examines the conditions under which this "adaptational pressure" has led to institutional change in the member states.

Multi-Level Governance and European Integration

Multi-Level Governance and European Integration
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780585381664
ISBN-13 : 0585381666
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Multi-Level Governance and European Integration by : Liesbet Hooghe

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as Omulti-level governance,OLiesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the second half of the twentieth century is a watershed in the political development of Europe. Hooghe and Marks explain why multi-level governance has taken place and how it shapes conflict in national and European political arenas. Drawing on a rich body of original research, the book is at the same time written in a clear and accessible style for undergraduates and non-experts.