TY - BOOK ID - 1646914 TI - Explaining decisions in the European Union PY - 2006 SN - 0521864054 9780521864053 9780511492044 9780521142274 052114227X 1107169291 0511260784 0511261357 0511319738 0511492049 1280749342 0511259557 0511260229 9780511261350 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Government KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - European Union KW - Public administration KW - Administrative agencies KW - Executive power KW - Administration publique (Science) KW - Administration publique KW - Pouvoir exécutif KW - Decision making. KW - Prise de décision KW - European Union. KW - European Union countries KW - Pays de l'Union européenne KW - Politics and government. KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Pouvoir exécutif KW - Prise de décision KW - Pays de l'Union européenne KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Agencies, Administrative KW - Executive agencies KW - Government agencies KW - Regulatory agencies KW - Administrative law KW - Administration, Public KW - Delivery of government services KW - Government services, Delivery of KW - Public management KW - Public sector management KW - Political science KW - Decentralization in government KW - Local government KW - Public officers KW - Law and legislation KW - E.U. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1646914 AB - Explaining outcomes of decision-making at the European level has occupied scholars since the late 1950s, yet analysts continue to disagree on the most important factors in the process. In this book, Arne Niemann examines the interplay of the supranational, governmental and non-governmental actors involved in EU integration, along with the influence of domestic, supranational and international structures. The book restates and develops neofunctionalism as an approach for explaining decisions in the European Union and assesses the usefulness of the revised neofunctionalist framework on three case studies: the emergence and development of the PHARE programme, the reform of the Common Commercial Policy, and the communitarisation of visa, asylum and immigration policy. Niemann argues that this classic theory can be modified in such a way as to draw on a wider theoretical repertoire and that many micro-level concepts can sensibly be accommodated within his larger neofunctionalist framework. ER -