| Author (Person) | Armstrong, Kenneth, Bulmer, Simon |
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| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Series Title | European Policy Research Unit Series |
| Publication Date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0-7190-4456-1 (Hbk) |
| Content Type | Textbook | Monograph |
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This book is the product of a research project on 'rule-making in the Single European Market (SEM)', itself part of a wider project, on regulatory institutions and practices in the SEM, conducted in the European Policy Research Unit (EPRU) of Manchester University's Department of Government. The drive to complete the SEM by 1992 was a key episode in the history of European integration, raising fundamental issues concerning the governance of the European economy. The book analyses the SEM from its origins through to the present and explores its political and legal dynamics. In Chapter 1 the authors offer a review of the origins of the SEM programme, its interaction with broader developments in the integration process during the mid-1980s and a review of existing interpretations of the SEM. In Chapter 2 the authors move on to give their own overall interpretation within a 'historical institutionalist framework' and indicate what it has to offer in the understanding of EU governance. Chapter 3 provides a dissection of EU governance, at systemic and sub-systemic levels, and is designed to give an institutional context for a series of case studies presented in the following chapters. The case studies cover merger control, public procurement in the utilities sector, the removal of technical barriers to trade, air transport liberalisation, transfrontier shipments of waste, and the protection of pregnant women in the workplace. Subsequent chapters revert to a wider focus, on the theme of governance and regulation in the SEM and the SEM in its current context post-1992. Armstrong Kenneth/Bulmer, Simon |
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| Subject Categories | Internal Markets |
