This book is the second of two volumes in which leading scholars examine the way in which EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. This second volume investigates the structures, institutions and processes put in place by national governments in Brussels. From a comparative perspective, the book assesses the responses of governments to the demands of EU membership. It offers a detailed examination of the organisation, operation and performance of permanent representations, and their role in national systems of EU policy making, and looks at the extent to which interaction within a common institutional environment has brought about convergence between national arrangements.

The companion volume, published in 2000, examines the national co-ordination of EU policy at the domestic level.

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world. Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots.

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world. Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots.

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This constitutional and institutional development of the European Community, and federalism in particular, are widely and intensely debated. The issue of federalism has proved to be divisive and misunderstood. This book provides a critical reappraisal of the political, economic, and socio-cultural potential of current federal political-institutional arrangements. It includes both an analysis of their necessary preconditions as well as evaluation of their advantages and disadvantages compared with other forms of state organisation. The authors examine the issue at the level of the Community, the member states, and the states of Central and Eastern Europe reflecting the increasing interdependence and interplay of these three levels; nation states in all parts of Europe influencing only one another and the Community, and being influenced by it. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the federalizing processes at work in Europe, both at the Community and nation state level, and pints out the problems, paradoxes and likely outcomes of these processes.

Two leading authors challenge the assumption that France has a well-coordinated government. The constitutional, political,and policy frameworks of coordination are critically assessed in relation to the central actors and the spending ministries, as well as the formal and informal mechanisms of coordination.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1938 edition. Excerpt: ...the statute books clear of obsolete and unimportant and useless acts. TO THINK ABOUT AND DISCUSS What examples of careless law breaking have you seen in your neighborhood? What loss did it cost in life, or limb, or in money values? Can the destruction of other people's property by over-enthusiastic students, in celebrating a football victory, for instance, be justified or condoned? On what basis? Are many automobile accidents due to the non-observance of traffic laws and regulations? What has been your observation? The community spends considerable money in the installation and maintenance of automobile traffic signals at street crossings. Why are there so many accidents at these particular crossings, in spite of the special precautions which have been taken? FOR FURTHER READING Building Citizenship, R. O. Hughes Sections on "Law Making and Its Importance," p. 199; "Law Enforcement and Its Importance," p. 201 The Citizen and His Government, John A. Lapp and Robert B. Weaver Unit V, How Laws Are Made Modern Democracies, James Bryce Chapter XLI, Section under subhead "The Quality of Legisla-tion" Cheese It--The Cops Emanuel H. Lavine How to Fight Crime--A primer on crime control by Paul W. Kearney, with foreword by J. Edgar Hoover Persons in Hiding, J. Edgar Hoover Chapter XV, Looking Forward CHAPTER XV Assume Your Financial Obligation "The most patent observation is that campaign funds are of primary concern to those most dependent upon the benefits which the funds are designed to secure.... The methods used in raising campaign funds in this country and the purposes to which the funds have been put, have so frequently been open to public censure, however, that party finance has become a problem as well for the general public, or at least that...