Societal Actors in European Integration: Polity-Building and Policy-making 1958-1992 (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been closely involved in European integration from the founding of the EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the authors discuss the participation of political parties, business groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building and policy-making. In this volume an illustrious cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from political parties to business groups and civil society organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an important text for students and Scholars of European Studies, European Union Politics and Political History Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration....Pages 1-14 Europeanization of Christian Democracy? Negotiating Organization, Enlargement, Policy and Allegiance in the European People’s Party....Pages 15-37 Shaping European Development Policy? Socialist Parties as Mediators from the International to the European Level....Pages 38-58 Regulating Markets: Peak Business Associations and the Origins of European Competition Policy....Pages 59-83 Developing a ‘European Strategy’: Business Groups and Trade Policy-Making in the Kennedy Round....Pages 84-105 Preventing Reform: Farm Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy....Pages 106-128 From Development Business to Civil Society? Societal Actors in Development Cooperation....Pages 129-150 Demanding Democracy in the Workplace: The European Trade Union Confederation and the Struggle to Regulate Multinationals....Pages 151-172 Establishing a Constitutional Practice: The Role of the European Law Associations....Pages 173-196 Challenging the Atomic Community: The European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest....Pages 197-220 Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration Since 1992....Pages 221-243 Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration....Pages 244-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-275 Review: 'Students across the social sciences and history will be grateful for this volume for it realizes the promise of broad-ranging interdisciplinary research in a unique and compelling way. No volume reveals more insightfully how, in the early decades of European integration, societal groups shaped Europe and Europe shaped societal groups. The result is an original set of excellent chapters that illuminate the dynamics of Europe's multilevel polity.' - Gary Marks, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA 'Contemporary historians are currently making a decisive contribution to the new sociology of the European Union. This tightly organised volume illustrates how an interdisciplinary historical viewpoint can contribute to our understanding of the role of societal actors in the EU, who have influenced policy-making and polity-building as much in its early days as in the post-Maastricht era.' - Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology, Centre d'etudes europeennes, Sciences Po, Paris, France 'This is a highly innovative book on the historical impact of societal actors on national European policies and the politics of European integration.' - Hartmut Kaelble, Professor of Social History, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany "In this volume an international cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from political parties to business groups and civil society organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an important text for students and Scholars of European Studies, European Union Politics and contemporary History."--Publisher's website