Issues in European Politics


European Union
 
 
 

General texts.
 

Archer,C. & F.Butler, The European Community: Structure and Process (Pinter, 1992)

Beetham, D. & C. Lord, Legitimacy and the European Union

Caporoso,J., The Structure and Function of European Integration

Dinan,D., Ever Closer Union?, Second Edition (Macmillan, 1999)

Duff,A, et al (eds.), Maastricht and Beyond (Routledge, 1994)

George,S.A., Politics and Policy in the EC, Second Edition (OUP, 1991)

Hix, S., The Political System of the European Union

Holland,S., The Uncommon Market

Keohane, R.O. & S. Hoffman, The New European Community

Laffan,B., Integration and Cooperation in Europe (Routledge, 1992)

Leonardi,R. (ed.), European Community Policies and Politics, vol.1 (Pinter, 1991)

Lodge,J (ed.), Institutions and Policies of the EC (Pinter, 1983)

Lodge,J. (ed.), The European Community and the Challenge of the Future (Pinter, 1989)

McCormick, J., Understanding the European Union

Moravcsik, A., ‘Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Governmentalist Approach’, JCMS, 31 (4), pp. 473-524

McDonald,F. & Dearden,S. European Economic Integration (Longman, 1992)

Nicoll,W & Salmon,T.C., Understanding the European Communities (Philip Allen, 1990)

Nicoll,W & Salmon,T.C., Understanding the New European Community (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994)

Nugent,N., Government and Politics of the European Community, Fourth Edition, (Macmillan, 1999)

Pierson, P., ‘The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis’, Comparative Political Studies, 29 (2), pp. 123-63

Pinder,J., European Community: the building of a union, second edition (OUP, 1995)

Pryce,R., The Politics of the EC

Rees, W., Reforming the EU (Longman, 1999)

Special Issue, West European Politics, 23 (4), October 2000, 'Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems'

Swann,D. (ed.), The Single European Market and Beyond (Routledge,1992)

Urwin,D.W., The Community of Europe: a history of European integration since 1945 (Longman, 1991)

Wallace, W., ‘Government Without Statehood’, in H. Wallace and W. Wallace, Policy-Making in the European Union, Third Edition

Williams, A.M., The European Community (Blackwell, 1991)
 

Origins and Objectives.
 

Archer,C., Organizing Europe: the institutions of integration, Second Edition (Edward Arnold, 1994)

Artis,M., "The Maastricht Road to Monetary Union", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXX (3), September 1992, pp.299-310

Arter,D., The Politics of European Integration in the Twentieth Century (Dartmouth, 1993)

Brewin,C. & McAllister,R., "Annual Review of the Activities of the European Community 1991", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXX (3), September 1992, pp.329-68.

Corbett,R., "The Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXX (3), September 1992, pp.271-298

George,S.A., Britain and European Integration since 1945 (Blackwell, 1991)

Gresotto,N., "European Union after Minsk and Maastricht", International Affairs, 68(2), April 1992, pp.223-232

Hallstein,W., Europe in the making

History of European Ideas, 19 (4-6), July 1994, Special Issue on `European Integration and the European Mind'

International Affairs, 70 (3), July 1994, `The European Union: setting an agenda'

Ionescu,G., The new Politics of European Integration

Ionescu,G., Between Sovereignty and Integration

Laffan,B., Integration and Cooperation in Europe (Routledge, 1992)

Mayne,R. (ed.), Europe Tomorrow

Morgan,R.P, West European Politics since 1945, esp. chs.5,9,13.

Neunreither, K., "The Democratic Deficit of the European Union", Government & Opposition, 29 (3), Summer 1994.

Neunreither,K., "Subsidiarity as a Guiding Principle for EC Activities", Government & Opposition, 1993

Noel,E., "Reflections of the Maastricht Treaty, Government & Opposition, 27 (2)

Nugent,N., "The Deepening and Widening of the EC: Recent Evolution, Maastricht and Beyond", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXX (3), September 1992;311-329.

Pinder,J., "The EC, the Rule of Law and Representative Government: the significance of the intergovernmental Conferences", Government & Opposition, 26 (2), Spring 1991

Pryce,R., The Politics of the EC

Pryce,R. (ed.), The Dynamics of European Union (Croom Helm, 1987)

Revue Politique et Parlementaire, no.960, juillet\août 1992: Special Issue on «Maastricht et l'Europe»

Richonnier,M., "Europe's decline is not irreversible", Journal of Common Market Studies, 22, 1984, pp.227-243

Salmon,T.C., "Testing Times for European Political Cooperation: the Gulf War and Yugoslavia, 1990-1992", International Affairs, 68(2), April 1992, pp.233- 254

Spinnelli,A., Report on European Union (European Parliament, July 1983)

Tsoukalis,L., The European Community: past, present and future

Urwin,D.W., The Community of Europe: a history of European integration since 1945 (Longman, 1991)

Wallace,H., "The Europe that Came in from the Cold", International Affairs, 67(4), October 1992, pp.647-664.

Wallace,H., "Institutions in a decentralised community", in Burrows et al (eds), Federal Solutions to European Problems

Weigall,D. & P.Stirk, The Origins and Development of the European Community, (LUP, 1992)

Wistrich,E., After 1992: the United States of Europe (Routledge)
 
 

Theories of Integration.

Cocks,P, Towards a Marxist Theory of European Integration", International Organisation, 34 (1), Winter 1980

George,S.A., Politics and Policy in the EC, Second Edition (OUP, 1991)

Groom,A.J.R. & Taylor,P., Functionalism: Theory and Practice in international Relations (University of London Press, 1975)

Groom,A.J.R., "Neofunctionalism: a case of mistaken identity", Political Science, 30, 1978, pp.15-28

Haas,E., "A functional approach to International organisation", Journal of Politics, 27, 1965, pp.131-41

Haas,E., Beyond the Nation State (Stanford University Press, 1964)

Haas,E., The Uniting of Europe (Stevens, 1958)

Kirchner,E.J., Decision-Making in the European Community, chapter 2.

Lindberg,L., Europe's Would-Be Polity, (Englewood Cliffs, 1970)

Lindberg,L., The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration (Stanford University Press, 1963)

Lodge,J., "EC policy-making: institutional considerations", in Lodge,J, The European Community and the challenge of the future

Lodge,J., "Loyalty and the EEC: the limitations of a functionalist approach", Political Studies, 26, 1978;232-48.

Mitrany,D., The functional theory of politics (London, Martin Robertson, 1975)

Ross,G., "Confronting the New Europe", New Left Review, 191, January/ February 1992, pp.49-68

Shackleton,M., "The European Community Between 3 Ways of Life", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXIX (6), December 1991, pp.575-602

Taylor,P., The Limits of European Integration (Croom Helm, 1983)

Williams,A.M., The European Community: the contradictions of integration (Blackwell, 1991)

For further bibliographical information on this area, see Lodge, Bibliographical Excursions
 
 

Parties and the European Parliament.
 

Bourgignon-Wittke,R., et al, "Five years of the directly elected European Parliament", Journal of Common Market Studies, 24, 1985, PP.39-60

European Journal of Political Research, 19(1), January 1991, Special issue on "The European Elections of June 1989"

George,S.A., "The EP and the requirements of Democratic Government", West European Politics, 4, 1981, PP.134-39

Herman,V., & Lodge,J. The European Parliament and the European Community

Herman,V. & Hagger,M The legislation of the direct elections to the European parliament (Gower, 1980)

Herman,V. & van Schendelen,R., The European parliament and the national parliaments

Holland,M., Candidates for Europe (Gower, 1986)

Jacobs,F. & Corbett,R. The European Parliament (Longman, 1990)

Kohn,W.S.G., "Women in the European parliament", Parliamentary Affairs, 34(2), 1981, pp.210- 220

Marquand,D., Parliament for Europe

Palmer,M., "The development of the European parliament's role within the EC, 1974- 1983", Review of International Europe, 1983, pp.183-202 (SL)

Pridham,G. & P., "Transnational parties in the EC", in S.Henig, Political parties in the European Community

Pridham,G. & P., Transnational Party Cooperation and European Cooperation (Allen & Unwin)
 
 

European Court of Justice.
 

Brown,L.N. & Jacobs,F. The Court of Justice of the EC

Bzdera,A., "The Court of Justice of the European Community and the Politics of Institutional Reform", West European Politics, 15(3), pp.122-36

Freestone,D., "The European Court of Justice", in J.Lodge (ed.), Institutions and Policies of the EC

Nugent,N., Government and Policies of the European Community, Second Edition (Macmillan, 1991)

Volcansek,M.L., "The European Court of Justice: Supranational Policy-Making", West European Politics, 15(3), July 1992, pp.109-121
 
 

European Council.
 

Bulmer,S., "Domestic Politics and EC Policy-making", Journal of Common Market Studies, 21, 1983, pp.349-64

Bulmer,S., "The European Council's first decade", Journal of Common Market Studies, 24, 1985, pp.89-104.

Bulmer,S. & Wessels,W. The European Council: decision-making in European politics (Macmillan, 1987)

Wessels,W., "The EC Council: the Community's Decisionmaking Center", in R.O.Keohane & S.Hoffman, The New European Community (Westview 1991)
 

European Commission.
 

P.Ludlow, "The European Commission", in R.O.Keohane & S.Hoffman, The New European Community (Westview 1991)

See also the general texts, especially, Lodge, The European Community and the challenge of the future, and Nugent,N., Government and Politics of the European Community
 
 

The EC: Deepening & Widening.

George,G., "The EC in the New Europe", in C.Crouch and D.Marquand (eds.), op.cit.

Gowan,P., "Western Economic Diplomacy and the New Eastern Europe, NLR, 182, July/ August 1990

Gowan,P., 'The EU and the Unsettled Future of the East', Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, 67, Autumn 2000

Jovias,A., "EC-Eastern Europe- A Case Study of Hungary", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXIX (3), March 1991

Klepsch, E., "The Democratic Dimension of European Integration", Government & Opposition, 27 (4), 1992

Kramer,H., "The EC's response to the `New Eastern Europe'", JCMS, 31 (2), June 1993

Laffan,B., op.cit., ch.8

Marasceau,M., "The EC, Eastern Europe and the USSR", in J.Redmond (ed.), The External Relations of the EC: the International Response to 1992 (Macmillan, 1992)

McDonald,F. & S.Dearden (eds.), op.cit., ch.12

Nugent,N., "The Deepening and Widening of the EC: Recent Evolution, Maastricht and Beyond", Journal of Common Market Studies, XXX (3), September 1992, pp.311-329

Pinder,J., "The Future of the European Community: A Strategy for Enlargment", Government & Opposition, 27 (4), 1992

Pinder,J., The European Community and Eastern Europe (Pinter, 1991)

Swann,D., op.cit., ch.10

Wallace,W., "From 12 to 24? The Challenge to the EC Posed by the Revolutions in E.Europe", in C.Crouch & D.Marquand (eds.), Toward Greater Europe? (Blackwell, 1992)

Williams,A.M., op.cit., ch.7
 
 
 

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