European Integration after Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy

Table of contents

• European Integration After Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy i
• European Integration After Amsterdam iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• List of Figures ix
• List of Tables x
• List of Abbreviations xi
• List of Contributors xiii
• Part I Changing Institutions 13
• 3 the European Commission: A Balancing Act Between Autonomy and Dependence 36
• 4 the Slow March of European Legislation: the Implementation of Directives 52
• 5 Beyond Amsterdam: Regional Integration as Social Process 68
• Part II Prospects for Democracy 93
• 6 Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President Investiture Procedure Reduce the Democratic Deficit? 95
• 7 Justifying Comitology: the Promise of Deliberation 112
• 8 Political Representation in the European Union: A Common Whole, Various Wholes, or Just a Hole? 129
• Part III Flexibility and the Challenge of Enlargement 151
• 9 Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty 153
• 10 Flexibility: A Tool of Integration or a Restraint on Disintegration? 175
• 11 Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and Exclusion 192
• 12 East of Amsterdam: the Implications of the Amsterdam Treaty for Eastern Enlargement 218
• Part IV Theoretical Perspectives on Constitutional Change 239
• 13 Precedents and Present Events in the European Union: An Institutional Perspective on Treaty Reform 241
• 14 a Blairite Treaty: Neo-Liberalism and Regulated Capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam 266
• 15 Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen After the Treaty of Amsterdam 290
• 16 the Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission Belt and Prism of New Governance 318
• References 343
• Index 379

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