Overview

With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical complexity. In January 2009 the Euro Area will be ten years old. What does the evidence from the first decade tell us about the significance of the euro for the EU and its member states? This book brings together a range of recognized academic specialists to examine the main political aspects of this question. How, and in what ways, has the euro Europeanized states (members and non-members), their institutions, policies and politics? What have been its effects on the location and use of power? Has the euro generated convergence or divergence? What political patterns can be identified? The book offers the first, in-depth and systematic political analysis of the first decade of the euro. It places the euro in its global and European contexts; offers a set of case studies of its effects on a representative sample of EU member states ('Anglo-Saxon', old 'D-Mark Zone', east central European and Baltic, Mediterranean, and Nordic); and looks at three key sectors (financial markets, wages and collective bargaining, and welfare reform). The book contributes to Europeanization studies, comparative political economy, and studies of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It will be of major interest to students of the European Union and European integration, comparative European politics, and area and 'country' studies.

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Author:   Kenneth Dyson (Research Professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.894kg
ISBN:  

9780199208869

ISBN 10:   0199208867
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   04 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Kenneth Dyson: The First Decade: Credibility, Identity and Institutional 'Fuzziness' PART I European and Global Contexts and Challenges 2: Benjamin J. Cohen: The Euro in a Global Context: Challenges and Capacities 3: Gaby Umbach and Wolfgang Wessels: The Changing European Context of Economic and Monetary Union: 'Deepening', 'Widening' and Stability 4: Mark Hallerberg and Joshua Bridwell: Fiscal Policy Co-ordination and Discipline: The Crisis of the Stability and Growth Pact and Domestic Fiscal Regimes 5: Martin Marcussen: Institutional Competitiveness: The Lisbon Process, Soft Governance and Convergence PART II Domestic Political and Policy Contexts in Euro Area Member States 6: David Howarth: France: The Political Management of Paradoxical Interests 7: Kenneth Dyson: Germany: A Crisis of Leadership in the Euro Area 8: Kevin Featherstone: Greece: A Suitable Accommodation? 9: Colin Hay, Jari Riihelaeinen, Nicola Smith and Matthew Watson: Ireland: The Outlier Inside 10: Lucia Quaglia and Paul Furlong: Italy: Creeping Towards Convergence 11: Amy Verdun: The Netherlands: A Turning Point in Dutch-EU Relations? PART III Domestic Political and Policy Contexts in Euro Area 'Outsiders' 12: Magnus Feldmann: Baltic States: When Stability Culture Is Not Enough 13: Jim Buller and Andrew Gamble: Britain: The Political Economy of Retrenchment 14: Bela Greskovits: Hungary and Slovakia: Compliance and its Discontents 15: Radoslaw Zubek: Poland: From Pacesetter to Semi-Permanent Outsider? 16: Johannes Lindvall: Sweden: Stability without Europe PART IV Sectors, States and EMU 17: Huw Macartney and Mick Moran: Banking and Financial Market Regulation and Supervision 18: Nick Parsons and Philippe Pochet: Wage Policies 19: Daniel Wincott: Welfare Reform 20: Kenneth Dyson: European States and the Euro Area: Clustering and Covariance in Patterns of Change References Index

Reviews

...provides a good overview of the euro's first years and highlights important weaknesses of EMU... Harvard International Review

The two volumes are a remarkable achievement since it is the first time that the most important and some controversial official documents that discuss economic governance in the EU and have led to EMU construction are collected and published in two volumes and analyzed in a chronological and systematic way... The two volumes are very important for anyone interested in tracing the evolution of EU economic governance back to the main documents rather than relying on secondary sources. EUSA Review Winter 2012 ...provides a good overview of the euro's first years and highlights important weaknesses of EMU... Harvard International Review

Author Information

Professor Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in European Politics in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. He is a Fellow of the British Academy; an Academician of the Learned Societies of the Social Sciences; and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was awarded the German Federal Service Cross (first class) and is co-editor of the journal 'German Politics'. He chaired the European Studies Panel in the UK Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) in 1996 and 2001 and was a former chair of the Standing Conference of Heads of European Studies (SCHES) and of the Association for the Study of German Politics.

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