Product Description: Sergio Fabbrini argues that the European Union (EU) is made up of states pursuing different aims, rather than simply moving in the same direction at different speeds. He describes the alternative perspectives on the EU (an economic community, an intergovernmental union, and a parliamentary union), that led to multiple compromises in its structure and shows how the Euro crisis has called them into question...read more

Product Description: This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyze the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the last 60 years, has significantly reduced the historical differences between the democracies on either side of the Atlantic...read more

Product Description: Las democracias modernas se caracterizan por un ascenso de los líderes de los Ejecutivos, en detrimento de los partidos y de los Poderes Legislativos. ¿Cuál es el rol del Príncipe democrático? ¿Qué factores favorecen su función? ¿Cómo ejerce su liderazgo en una sociedad dominada por los medios de comunicación? Para responder estas preguntas Sergio Fabbrini hace un análisis comparativo de los líderes gubernamentales de Estados Unidos y Europa, en especial de Gran Bretaña, Italia y Francia...read more

Product Description: Based on an analytical evaluation of both the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian political system, Italy in the European Union is the first book to offer a detailed and comprehensive description of Italy's contribution to European Union policy-making...read more

Product Description: The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states. Yet, by and large, the EU and the US tend to be analyzed more as potential geopolitical and economic rivals or allies than compared as institutional peers...read more

Product Description: In 2003, the government headed by Silvio Berlusconi attempted to take Italian public policy in a new direction. In social and labor market policy it challenged concertation; in foreign policy, it tried to transform the country's traditional Europeanist position into a pro-Atlantic stance; within the European Union, it promoted an inter-governmental position...read more