ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy provides an in-depth and systematic understanding of EU policies. It covers theoretical approaches on the policy process and the various stages of public policy formulation and decision making, and discusses key questions of contemporary European governance. The handbook introduces major concepts, trends, and methodologies in a variety of comparative settings thereby providing the first systematic effort to include theoretical and substantive analyses of European public policies in a single volume.
The handbook is divided into four sections:
- Concepts and approaches in EU policymaking;
- Substantive policies of the EU, including economic and social, fiscal and monetary, areas of freedom, security, and justice, and external policies;
- Elements of the policy cycle;
- Themes ranging from crisis and resistance to controversies in education.
This handbook will be an essential reference for students and scholars of the European Union, public policy, social policy, and more broadly for European and comparative politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|39 pages
Concepts and approaches
section 2|221 pages
Substantive policies
part I|14 pages
Economic and social policies
part II|44 pages
Fiscal and monetary policies
part III|36 pages
Area of freedom, security, and justice
part IV|51 pages
External policies
part V|31 pages
Sectoral policies
chapter 22|10 pages
The Common Agricultural Policy
section III|69 pages
The policy cycle
section 4|42 pages
Themes
part I|10 pages
Crisis and resistance
chapter 31|8 pages
Resisting in times of crisis
part II|16 pages
Controversies in European higher education