Product Description: Appliqué plus récemment à l’échelle de l’Union européenne, le principe de « subsidiarité » est reconnu et utilisé depuis des siècles, à des degrés divers, en France et Allemagne. Malgré son omniprésence dans la vie socio-politique aux niveaux nationaux et internationaux, l’incertitude concernant sa définition et ses fonctions exactes subsiste...read more

This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union’s Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical analysis of the EWS as well as an assessment of how national parliaments have responded to EU legislative proposals under the system. Philipp Kiiver explores whether the EWS could function as a mechanism of legal accountability offering a partial remedy to the European Union’s much-discussed accountability deficit. The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity provides an overview of the historical developments of national parliamentary involvement in the EU and also considers the broader implications of the EWS, including its relationship to democracy and legitimacy. The book will be of particular interest to academics and students of EU Law, Constitutional Law and Political Science.

Product Description: This book examines the impact of Europeanization on the domestic politics of EU member states, focussing on agricultural policy, cohesion policy and employment policy with a detailed comparative case study on Italy. Though a founding member, Italy has often had an uneasy relationship with the EU and found it difficult to be influential in EU politics and to comply effectively with EU policies and institutional pressures...read more

Product Description: The Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC - CPD) should have facilitated putting construction products on any national market within the European Economic Area. Two decades later, its practical impact is still relatively weak...read more

Product Description: This book represents a major attempt to draw together two fundamental streams of research: intergovernmental relations and multi-level governance (MLG). Combining US and European schools of thought, this timely volume outlines key areas of convergence and divergence...read more

Product Description: Diese Arbeit skizziert ein dynamisches Konzept Kommunaler Selbstverwaltung in Anbindung an die theorienbezogene politik- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Governancediskussion. Aus der Zusammenschau erfolgt zunächst eine Verengung und Weiterentwicklung der theoretischen Konzeption von Governance aus kommunaler Perspektive...read more