The Engines of European Integration
Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the EU
ISBN13: 9780199251179ISBN10: 0199251177
Paperback,
512 pages
May 2003,
In Stock
Price:
$60.00 (06)Description
The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament. In The Engines of Integratio, the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics, Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation, agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents, and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration.Reviews
"This is the most systematic attempt yet at applying agency theory to the European Union.... Anyone contributing to the study of the European Union should take serious notice of this book."--Perspectives on Politics
"Pollack has written an excellent book from a fresh perspective which provides a most welcome challenge to much conventional writing on the European Union and its institutions."--Social Forces
About the Author(s)
Mark A. Pollack, University of Wisconsin-Madison and European University Institute
