European Integration after Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy Book

1. Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond
PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
2. The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance?, Gerda Falkner and Michael Nentwich
3. The European Commission: A balancing act between autonomy and dependence, Christian Lequesne
4. The Slow March of European Legislation: The implementation of directives, Giuseppe Ciavarini Azzi
5. Beyond Amsterdam: Regional integration as social process, Beate Kohler-Koch
PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY
6. Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the democratic deficit?, Simon Hix
7. Justifying Comitology: The promise of deliberation, Jürgen Neyer
8. Political Representation in the EU: A common whole, various wholes or just a hole?, Karlheinz Neunreither
PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT
9. Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty, Alexander C-G. Stubb
10. Flexibility: A tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration?, Helen Wallace
11. Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and exclusion, Peter Leslie
12. East of Adam: The implications for eastern enlargement of the Amsterdam Treaty, Ulrich Sedelmeier
PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
13. Precedents and Present Events: An institutional perspective on treaty reform, Ulf Sverdrup
14. A Blairite Treaty: Neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam, Mark A. Pollack
15. Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam, Jo Shaw
16. The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission belt and prism of new governance, Antje Wiener