| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
From community to diverse union -- Integration and democracy : the big trade-off -- The community method -- Delegation of powers and the fiduciary principle -- Institutional balance versus institutional innovation -- Policy dilemmas -- Positive and negative integration -- Beyond intergovernmentalism -- International economic integration, the nation-state, and democracy : an impossible trinity? -- The future of the union : Montesquieu versus Madison |
| Summary |
If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal strategies. The functionalist strategy of promoting spillovers from one economic sector to another has failed to achieve a steady progress towards a federal union, as Jean Monnet and other functionalists had hoped. On the other hand, the unanticipated results of 'integration through law' have includedover-regulation and an institutional framework which is too rigid to allow significant policy and institutional inn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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European Union
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| SUBJECT |
European Union. fast (OCoLC)fst00916630 |
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LAW -- International.
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International economic integration.
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Politics and government
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Europese integratie.
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Europese Unie.
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European Union countries -- Economic integration -- History -- 20th century
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European Union countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Subject |
European Union countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191534393 |
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0191534390 |
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9781423786757 |
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1423786750 |
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9780191603310 |
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0191603317 |
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