This Second Edition of Making Policy in Europe is fully revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date introduction to the study of policymaking in the European Union (EU). The first part of the book introduces the different perspectives to study of the EU as a political system, and provides a framework for the study of the main actors and institutions in the decision-making process from transnational lobbying within Brussels to the implementation of EU law in national member states. Part two introduces each of the main sectoral policy areas. The common "market" is introduced and reviewed before students are provided with detailed studies of policies and policy-making in telecommunications, the environment, energy, education, immigration, and policing. In each case the complex interaction between different interests and actors at different levels in the EU apparatus is richly illustrated and the future prospects for further integration fully examined. The final part of the book looks at the future economic and political structure of the EU and the direction of contemporary studies of the EU and European integration. A completely new chapter reviews European monetary union, another looks at the important enlargement question, and, finally, the editors review the wider implications for Europe and the EU political system. This book will be essential reading for another generation of students of the EU, European pubic policy and European integration. In each case the complex interaction between interests and actors at different levels in the EU apparatus is richly illustrated and the future prospects for further integration are examined.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: POLICYMAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Introduction - Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen The EU as a new political system Formal Processes - Svein S Andersen, Kjell A Eliassen and Nick Sitter EU Institutions and Actors Informal Processes - Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen Lobbying, Actor Strategies, Coalitions and Dependencies PART TWO: EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES Rail and Transport Policy - Frank Dobbin National Paradigms and Supranational Structure Telecommunications Policy - Kjell A Eliassen and Marit S Marino Interest Convergence and Globalization Energy Policy - Svein S Andersen Interest Interaction and Supranational Authority Educational Policy - Erik Beukel Institutionalization and Multilevel Governance Policing Policy and Justice and Home Affairs - Ellen Ahnfelt and Johan From From High to Low Politics PART THREE: THE FUTURE OF THE EU AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION European Monetary Union - Miriam L Campanella Economic Versus Political Intregation and the Limits of Supranationalism The Common Foreign and Security Policy - Helene Sjursen Limits of Intergovernmentalism and the Search for a Global Role EU Enlargement - Finn Laursen Interests, Issues and the Need for Insitutional Reform Conclusion - Svein S Andersen and Kjell A Eliassen Making Policy in the New Europe