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Dilemmas of European Integration - The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth (Hardcover, New)
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Dilemmas of European Integration - The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth (Hardcover, New)
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If one lesson emerges clearly from fifty years of European
integration it is that political aims should be pursued by overtly
political means, and not by roundabout economic or legal
strategies. The functionalist strategy of promoting spillovers from
one economic sector to another has failed to achieve a steady
progress towards a federal union, as Jean Monnet and other
functionalists had hoped. On the other hand, the unanticipated
results of 'integration through law' have included over-regulation
and an institutional framework which is too rigid to allow
significant policy and institutional innovations. Thus, integration
by stealth has produced sub-optimal policies and a steady loss of
legitimacy by the supranational institutions. Both the
functionalist approach and the classic Community Method are
becoming obsolete. This major new statement from a leading European
scholar provides the most thorough analysis currently available of
the pitfalls and ambiguities of 50 years of European integration,
without losing sight of its benefits. Majone provides a clear
demonstration of how a number of European policies - including
environmental protection - lack a logically defensible rationale,
while showing how, in other cases, objectives may be better
achieved by re-nationalizing the policy in question. He also shows
how, in an information-rich environment, co-ordination by mutual
adjustment becomes possible, meaning that member states are no
longer as dependent on central institutions as in the past. He
explains how the challenge for future research is to investigate
methods-other than delegation to supranational institutions-by
which member states can credibly commit themselves to collective
action. Dilemmas of European Integration concludes by explaining
exactly why the model of a United States of Europe is bound to
fail-not just due to lack of popular support, but because it finds
itself unable to deliver the public goods which Europeans expect to
receive from a full fledged government. Although failing as a
would-be federation, the present Union could become an effective
confederation, built on the solid foundation of market integration.
The new Constitutional Treaty, Majone argues, seems to point in
this direction.
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