- Preface
- New to this edition
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Editors’ Note
- Part I Institutions, Process, and Analytical Approaches
- 1. An Overview
- 2. Theorizing EU Policy-Making
- 3. The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
- 4. An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes
- Part II Policies
- 5. The Single Market From Stagnation to Renewal?
- 6. Competition Policy Defending the Economic Constitution
- 7. Policy-Making under Economic and Monetary Union Crisis, Change, and Continuity
- 8. The Common Agricultural Policy The Fortress Challenged
- 9. The Budget Who Gets What, When, and How?
- 10. Cohesion Policy A New Direction for New Times?
- 11. Social Policy Left to the Judges and the Markets?
- 12. Employment Policy Between Efficacy and Experimentation
- 13. Environmental Policy Contending Dynamics of Policy Change
- 14. Energy Policy Sharp Challenges and Rising Ambitions
- 15. Justice and Home Affairs Institutional Change and Policy Continuity
- 16. Trade Policy Policy-Making after the Treaty of Lisbon
- 17. Enlargement
- 18. Foreign and Security Policy
- Part III Conclusions
- 19. Policy-Making in a Time of Crisis Trends and Challenges
- APPENDIX: Caseloads of EU Courts
- References
- Index
(p. 46) 3. The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
- Chapter:
- (p. 46) 3. The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
- Author(s):
Alasdair R. Young
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780199689675.003.0003
This chapter examines the European Union’s policy-making process with a comparative perspective. It outlines the stages of the policy-making process (agenda-setting, policy formation, decision-making, implementation, and policy feedback) and considers the prevailing approaches to analysing each of these stages. It also shows how these approaches apply to studying policy-making in the EU. Themes addressed in this chapter include policy-making and the policy cycle, the players in the policy process, executive politics, legislative politics, and judicial politics. The chapter argues that theories rooted in comparative politics and international relations can help elucidate the different phases of the EU’s policy process. It concludes by explaining why policy-making varies across issue areas within the EU.
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- Preface
- New to this edition
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Editors’ Note
- Part I Institutions, Process, and Analytical Approaches
- 1. An Overview
- 2. Theorizing EU Policy-Making
- 3. The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
- 4. An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy Modes
- Part II Policies
- 5. The Single Market From Stagnation to Renewal?
- 6. Competition Policy Defending the Economic Constitution
- 7. Policy-Making under Economic and Monetary Union Crisis, Change, and Continuity
- 8. The Common Agricultural Policy The Fortress Challenged
- 9. The Budget Who Gets What, When, and How?
- 10. Cohesion Policy A New Direction for New Times?
- 11. Social Policy Left to the Judges and the Markets?
- 12. Employment Policy Between Efficacy and Experimentation
- 13. Environmental Policy Contending Dynamics of Policy Change
- 14. Energy Policy Sharp Challenges and Rising Ambitions
- 15. Justice and Home Affairs Institutional Change and Policy Continuity
- 16. Trade Policy Policy-Making after the Treaty of Lisbon
- 17. Enlargement
- 18. Foreign and Security Policy
- Part III Conclusions
- 19. Policy-Making in a Time of Crisis Trends and Challenges
- APPENDIX: Caseloads of EU Courts
- References
- Index
