Handbook of European Policies

Interpretive Approaches to the EU

Hubert Heinelt, Sybille Münch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2018
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78471-935-7 (ISBN)

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This definitive Handbook addresses the current lack of research into European policymaking and development using an interpretive perspective. Questioning areas that mainstream approaches tend to neglect, contributors target the ways in which ideas, arguments and discourses shape policies in the institutional context of the EU.

This definitive Handbook addresses the current lack of research into European policy-making and development using an interpretive perspective. Questioning areas that mainstream approaches tend to neglect, contributors target the ways in which ideas, arguments and discourses shape policies in the institutional context of the EU.

The Handbook of European Policies provides an in-depth and comprehensive introduction for all significant policy areas in the EU, highlighting the theories of post-positivism and interpretivism. With rich explanations of different methodological and conceptual approaches to post-positivist research, key chapters consider the essential exchange between EU integration studies and EU policy studies, examining how both can benefit from this new and exciting approach. Offering theoretically grounded answers, this Handbook creates a dialogue between critical policy studies and European integration theory.

Academics and practitioners concerned with the functioning of EU policies will benefit from the eminent contributors’ insights into issues high on the institutional agenda of the EU and its member states. In addition, the Handbook is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses concerned with European integration and EU policies.

Contributors include: R. Atkinson, P. Biegelbauer, Y. Bollen, D. Dakowska, F. Daviter, P.H. Feindt, H. Heinelt, J. Kantola, J.D. Kelstrup, M. Knodt, X. Kurowska, E. Lombardo, S. Münch, F. Nullmeier, J. Orbie, K.T. Paul, W. Petzold, C.M. Radaelli, D. Sack, E.K. Sarter, S. Saurugger, M.A. Schreurs, K. Serrano Velarde, V.A. Schmidt, M.A. Schreurs, H. Strassheim, M. Weber, K. Zimmermann

Edited by Hubert Heinelt, Professor for Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research, Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Sybille Münch, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity, Democracy and Inclusion in Education, Hildesheim University, Germany

Contents:

Introduction
Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch

PART I
1. The constructivist turn in EU public policy approaches
Sabine Saurugger

2. The role of ideas and discourse in European integration
Vivien A. Schmidt

3. EU policies and the Europeanization of domestic policymaking
Claudio M. Radaelli

4. How to explain discursive change: An actor-centered approach to interpretive explanation
Frank Nullmeier

5. The framing of EU policies
Falk Daviter

PART II
6. EU agricultural policy
Peter H. Feindt

7. The structural funds and EU cohesion policy
Hubert Heinelt and Wolfgang Petzold

8. European spatial planning policy
Rob Atkinson and Karsten Zimmermann

9. EU consumer policy
Katharina T. Paul and Holger Straßheim

10. EU trade policy
Yelter Bollen

11. EU environmental policy
Miranda A. Schreurs

12. EU energy policy
Michèle Knodt

13. EU research, technological development and innovation policy
Peter Biegelbauer and Matthias Weber

14. European higher education policy
Dorota Dakowska and Kathia Serrano Velarde

15. EU foreign policy
Xymena Kurowska

16. EU development policy
Sarah Delputte and Jan Orbie

17. EU migration and asylum policies
Sybille Münch

18. EU gender equality policies
Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo

PART III
19. Think tanks in EU public policies
Jesper Dahl Kelstrup

20. Strategic use and social taming – Opening up the doctrine of market competition in public procurement
Detlef Sack and E. K. Sarter

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-78471-935-8 / 1784719358
ISBN-13	978-1-78471-935-7 / 9781784719357
Zustand	Neuware