European Union. Power and policy-making (Chapters: 20)

from the table of contents: Part 1: State Building, differentiated integration and a multispeed Europe; The EU as a policy-making state: a policy system like any other?; The EU as a system of differentiated integration: a challenge for theories of European integration?; The politics of multispeed integration in the European Union; Part 2: Institutional processing; The European Commission; The EU’s multilevel parliamentary system; The Councils of the EU: intergovernmental bargaining in a supranational polity; The shadow of case law: the Court of Justice of the European union and the policy process; The distribution of power among institutions; The EU budget: which fiscal capacity at the European level?; EU agencies; Part 3: Variegated Policy-making; EU enlargement; The EU as an international actor; European regulation; European macroeconomic governance; Covert integration in the European Union; Implementation; Part 4: Channels of presentation; European elections and the European voter; Shooting where the ducks are: EU lobbying and institutionalized promiscuity; Bypassing the nation state? Regions and the EU policy process; Political Representation and democracy in the EU;