West European Politics articles from March 2004

West European Politics archives from March 2004

Foreword.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... In this special issue, we have two interconnected goals: to explain substantively the process of policy change in Europe, and to demonstrate that explanations of policy change are most complete when using a pluralism of approaches, including...

Policy change and discourse in Europe: conceptual and methodological issues.
March 1, 2004... Since the mid-1980s, the European Union, together with its member states, has undergone a major process of transformation. First with the race to the single market by 1992, then with the run-up to European Monetary Union (EMU) by 1999, and now...

Discourse, ideas, and epistemic communities in European Security and Defence Policy.
March 1, 2004... The end of the Cold War represented a shift in the tectonic plates of history, politics and international relations comparable in significance to those of 1789-95, 1917-19 and 1945-49. The major difference with those previous turning points was...

CAP reforms and multilateral trade negotiations: another view on discourse efficiency.(Common Agricultural Policy)
March 1, 2004... The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was institutionalised in the early 1960s and has gone through various crises since then, which have led to increasingly important policy reforms (1981, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1999 and 2002/3). (1) This article...

Assuming leadership in multilateral economic institutions: the EU's 'development round' discourse and strategy.
March 1, 2004... As the world's largest market, (1) the European Union's (EU) trade policy has a considerable impact on the world trading system. Since the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995, the EU has grown more conscious of its power in...

Winners and losers in Europeanisation: reforming the national regulation of telecommunications.
March 1, 2004... European integration can affect the strategies and resources of actors within member states. (1) Some actors are winners: pressures generated by European integration are congruent with their existing strategies, or they can adapt to these...

National filters: Europeanisation, institutions, and discourse in the case of banking regulation.
March 1, 2004... The banking industry, like much of the financial industry, has been confronted with substantial challenges and undergone momentous changes in the last three decades. (1) While the post-World War II system (also known as the Bretton Woods...

Britain, France, and EU anti-discrimination policy: the emergence of an EU policy paradigm.
March 1, 2004... The management of migrant populations in post-war Europe has been guided by contrasting 'policy paradigms' at national level that led to the adoption of specific sets of policy instruments (Hall 1993). 'Paradigms' are by definition stable and...

Policy change and discourse in Europe: can the EU make a 'square meal out of a stew of paradox'?
March 1, 2004... In 1984, Jacques Delors, a French 'social(ist) Christian', was appointed President of the European Commission. When his decade-long period as President ended, Europe had been transformed and was continuing to change. (1) How? Why? Despite the...

Conclusions.
March 1, 2004... This conclusion sums up what we have learned comparatively about policy change and the role of discourse in Europe. It presents the results of this volume by focusing on four key themes that cut across the case studies presented. The four...