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Dilemmas of European integration : the ambiguities and pitfalls of integration by stealth /

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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 achi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Majone, Giandomenico
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
European Union.
European Union
European Union countries > Economic integration > History > 20th century.
European Union countries > Politics and government > 20th century.
Europe > Intégration économique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LAW > International.
International economic integration
Politics and government
European Union countries
Europese integratie.
Europese Unie.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From community to diverse union
  • Integration and democracy : the big trade-off
  • The community method
  • Delegation of powers and the fiduciary principle
  • Institutional balance versus institutional innovation
  • Policy dilemmas
  • Positive and negative integration
  • Beyond intergovernmentalism
  • International economic integration, the nation-state, and democracy : an impossible trinity?
  • The future of the union : Montesquieu versus Madison.