The Euro at Ten

NOTE EDITORE

With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical complexity. In January 2009 the Euro Area will be ten years old. What does the evidence from the first decade tell us about the significance of the euro for the EU and its member states? This book brings together a range of recognized academic specialists to examine the main political aspects of this question. How, and in what ways, has the euro Europeanized states (members and non-members), their institutions, policies and politics? What have been its effects on the location and use of power? Has the euro generated convergence or divergence? What political patterns can be identified? The book offers the first, in-depth and systematic political analysis of the first decade of the euro. It places the euro in its global and European contexts; offers a set of case studies of its effects on a representative sample of EU member states ('Anglo-Saxon', old 'D-Mark Zone', east central European and Baltic, Mediterranean, and Nordic); and looks at three key sectors (financial markets, wages and collective bargaining, and welfare reform). The book contributes to Europeanization studies, comparative political economy, and studies of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It will be of major interest to students of the European Union and European integration, comparative European politics, and area and 'country' studies.

SOMMARIO

1 - The First Decade: Credibility, Identity and Institutional 'Fuzziness'2 - The Euro in a Global Context: Challenges and Capacities3 - The Changing European Context of Economic and Monetary Union: 'Deepening', 'Widening' and Stability4 - Fiscal Policy Co-ordination and Discipline: The Crisis of the Stability and Growth Pact and Domestic Fiscal Regimes5 - Institutional Competitiveness: The Lisbon Process, Soft Governance and Convergence6 - France: The Political Management of Paradoxical Interests7 - Germany: A Crisis of Leadership in the Euro Area8 - Greece: A Suitable Accommodation?9 - Ireland: The Outlier Inside10 - Italy: Creeping Towards Convergence11 - The Netherlands: A Turning Point in Dutch-EU Relations?12 - Baltic States: When Stability Culture Is Not Enough13 - Britain: The Political Economy of Retrenchment14 - Hungary and Slovakia: Compliance and its Discontents15 - Poland: From Pacesetter to Semi-Permanent Outsider?16 - Sweden: Stability without Europe17 - Banking and Financial Market Regulation and Supervision18 - Wage Policies19 - Welfare Reform20 - European States and the Euro Area: Clustering and Covariance in Patterns of Change

AUTORE

Professor Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in European Politics in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. He is a Fellow of the British Academy; an Academician of the Learned Societies of the Social Sciences; and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was awarded the German Federal Service Cross (first class) and is co-editor of the journal 'German Politics'. He chaired the European Studies Panel in the UK Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) in 1996 and 2001 and was a former chair of the Standing Conference of Heads of European Studies (SCHES) and of the Association for the Study of German Politics.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199208869
• Dimensioni: 240 x 32.0 x 162 mm Ø 894 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous figures and tables
• Pagine Arabe: 496