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Overview"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 European Integration, 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. In the first part of the book, Pollack analyses the historical and functional patterns of delegation to the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the Parliament, suggesting that delegation to the first two is motivated by a desire to reduce the transaction costs of EU policymaking, as predicted by principal-agent models, while delegation of powers to the Parliament fits poorly with such models, and primarily reflects a concern by member governments to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the Union. The second part of the book focuses on the role of supranational agents in both the liberalization and the re-regulation of the European market, and suggests that the Commission, Court, and Parliament have indeed played a causally important role alongside member governments as ""the engines of integration,"" but that their ability to do so has varied historically and across issue-areas as a function of the discretion delegated to them by the member governments." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark A. Pollack (, University of Wisconsin-Madison and European University Institute)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.856kg ISBN: 9780199251186ISBN 10: 0199251185 Pages: 510 Publication Date: 13 March 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theory, Hypotheses and Research Design 1: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the European Union Part I: Delegation and Discretion 2: The Commission as an Agent: Delegation of Executive Power in the EU 3: The Court of Justice as an Agent: Delegation of Judicial Power in the EU 4: The European Parliament an an Outlier: Delegation of Legislative Powers in the EU Part II: Agency and Agenda-Setting 5: Liberalizing Europe: The Commission, the Court, and the Creation of a European Market 6: Regulating Europe: The Commission, the Court, and the Regulation of the European Market Conclusions: A Europe of Agents, A World of AgentsReviewsAnyone contributing to the study of the Europe Union should take serious notice of this book. s 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. Journal of Public Policy ... will interest scholars, students and policy researchers of EU affairs. KnowEurope For scholars of EU institutions, and particularly those interested in modelling institutional relationships via principal-agent dynamics, this in an important book. Ian Bache, University of Sheffield This book is well structured, well written and develops a clear line of arguement form the approach taken. Ian Bache, University of Sheffield Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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