With Economic and Monetary Union, the European Union has embarked on one of the biggest projects in its history. Previous literature has focused on how EMU came into being and on the policy issues that it raises. European States and the Euro seeks to move the discussion forwards by offering the first systematic evaluation of how it is affecting EU states, both members and non-members of the Euro-Zone. It is the first book to explicitly situate EMU in the growing literature on Europeanization.
It examines the effects on public policies, political structures, discourses, and identities. The book seeks to identify the scope of EMU's effects, the direction that it imparts to political and policy changes, the mechanisms by which it produces its effects, and the role of domestic institutions, political leadership and specific forms of discourse in shaping responses. In addition, the book assesses how, and with what effects, EMU is affecting key policy sectors¾labour markets and wages, welfare states, and financial market governance. What conditions the degree of convergence discernible in these sectors? Finally, the book seeks to 'contextualize' EMU by assessing its effects both in comparison with other variables like globalization and in a historical perspective of the European Monetary System as a 'training ground'. The book combines sectoral and country case studies with a thematic treatment by recognized experts in their fields. It moves from globalization, through EU-level changes, to member states and finally to specific sectors.
The main conclusions are that EMU is most important in affecting the timing, tempo and rhythm of domestic change¾that these changes are experienced pre-eminently at the level of policy; that it strengthens pressures for convergence; but that different domestic institutional arrangements and discourses lead to variations in policy processes and effects and in the way change is 'framed'. In particular, whilst EMU contains a neo-liberalizing tendency exhibited most clearly in financial market effects, it is not to be characterized as a neo-liberal project by means of which the EU is becoming an economic and social space simply converging around Anglo-American market capitalism.
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This text explicitly situates EMU in the growing literature on Europeanization. It examines its effects on public policies, political structures, discourses, and identities, and seeks to identify the scope of its effects, the directions it imparts, and its mechanisms.
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1 EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS; 2 DOMESTIC POLITICAL AND POLICY CONTEXTS; 3 SECTORS, STATES AND EMU
Contributions from leading scholars in the field
First systematic evaluation of how the euro is affecting European states
Examines the affects of the euro at a global level
Extremely timely and contentious topic
Set to define the debate over the next five years
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Contributions from leading scholars in the field
First systematic evaluation of how the euro is affecting European states
Examines the affects of the euro at a global level
Extremely timely and contentious topic
Set to define the debate over the next five years
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ISBN
9780199250264
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
748 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
430
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