The Political Economy of Europe's Incomplete Single Market

Author:   David Howarth (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415851343


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   15 April 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Progress in European market integration over the past two decades has come at the expense of growing flexibility, or differentiation, in the laws that govern the Single Market (SM) as well as the way that these laws are implemented. This volume examines how the completion of the SM has been held back in the varied implementation of European Union competition policy, variation in national policies on services, corporate law, telecommunications, energy, taxation, and gambling, and the EU’s uneven transportation network. These sectors and issue-areas form the frontier at which the main political struggles over the future shape of the SM have taken place in the past decade. Broadly, progress in economic integration in the EU has been complicated by the need to reconcile perfections to the SM with the global competitiveness of European producers, and efficiency gains with ideational and normative concerns. In services, there is a clash between deregulation and social policy. Financial integration has had to reconcile different institutionalized views among the member states about the place of finance in the economy and society. The SM notion supposedly entails a concrete set of substantive policy commitments that form the basis of the ‘ever closer union’. However, increasing differentiation in the SM undermines the identification of the EU’s core constitutional commitments. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

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Author:   David Howarth (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780415851343


ISBN 10:   0415851343
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   15 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Preface David Howarth and Tal Sadeh 2. The Ever Incomplete Single Market: Differentiation and the Evolving Frontier of Integration David Howarth and Tal Sadeh 3. Single Market, Global Competition: Regulating the European Market in a Global Economy Mitchell P. Smith 4. Discretion by the Rules: European State Aid Policy and the 1999 Procedural Regulation Nikolaos Zahariadis 5. Are You Being Served? Europeanizing and Re-Regulating the Single Market in Services Georg Menz 6. The Political Economy of Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the Single Market Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Julio Revuelta 7. Completing the Single Market in Financial Services: The Politics of Competing Advocacy Coalitions Lucia Quaglia 8. Stakes and States: Gambling and the Single Market Vincent Della Sala 9. Let’s Get Physical: The European Commission and Cultivated Spillover in Completing the Single Market’s Transport Infrastructure Paul Stephenson 10. Does Europeanization Lead to Policy Convergence? The Role of the Single Market in shaping National Tax Policies Achim Kemmerling

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David Howarth is a Jean Monnet Chair and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or co-author of three books including The ECB: the New European Leviathan, Palgrave, 2005, revised second and numerous journal articles and book chapters on Economic and Monetary Union, the political economy of European integration and comparative political economy. Tal Sadeh is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University.

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