The European Union encyclopedia and directory 2005

This nine volume set of regularly revised titles provides in-depth analysis of all the regions of the world.

Employment policy and the regulation of part-time work in the European Union

a comparative analysis

This book originates from the research project #New discourses in labour law# held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into ...

Europe

an unfinished adventure

More than ever before, our conflict-ridden, drifting planet needs the qualities that Europe, unique among the continents, has developed in more than two millennia of history: its self-criticism, its urge to self-transcendence, exploration and experiment, its conviction that alternative and better forms of human togetherness ...

Procedural politics

issues, influence, and institutional choice in the European Union

Under what conditions, in what ways, and with what effects do actors engage in politics with respect to, rather than merely within, political institutions? Using multiple methods and original data, Procedural Politics develops a theory of everyday politics with respect to rules - procedural politics - and ...

European integration and industrial relations

multi-level governance in the making

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

A bond scheme for common agricultural policy reform

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is at an impasse. While it is said that existing policies are not tenable, all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a #bond scheme#, as part of reform that pays more attention to society#s aspirations for ...

Claves para un nuevo mercado de trabajo

una aplicación a la Unión Europea

El mercado de trabajo constituye uno de los pilares básicos de la economía. En un mundo cada vez más globalizado como resultado de las nuevas tecnologías, se compite a escala planetaria, tanto para obtener ventajas competitivas de primer orden (I+D+i) como de segundo ...

A Constitution for the European Union

The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal -- that within the Union, "European institutions should be brought closer to its citizens" -- raises many questions about implementation. What is ...

An agenda for a growing Europe

the Sapir report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book ...

La economía española en la Unión Europea

(1986-2002)

La economía española en la Unión Europea (1986-2002) ofrece una panorámica general de la integración económica y monetaria de España en la Unión Europea,desde 1986 hasta nuestros días. La adaptación al nuevo entorno competitivo ha exigido profundas reformas en la economía española.Cada uno ...

European Industrial Relations Annual Review 2001/2002

Published each year, this review identifies key events in European industrial relations, political economy and social policy during the preceeding year and invites leading academic commentators from across the EU to assess their significance. Identifies the significant trends and developments in the relationship between employers ...

Unsocial Europe

social protection or flexploitation?

This book presents a critical analysis of trends in European welfare systems and labour market policies, how and why they are changing and how they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work. As a contribution to debates about `globalisation' and the ...

El mercado interior europeo

las libertades económicas comunitarias: mercancias, personas, servicios y capitales

El mercado interior constituye el eje central del proceso de integración económica europea y uno de sus principales logros. Esta obra se centra en el análisis pormenorizado de las libertades de circulación que representan el núcleo fundamental de este gran mercado unificado. La publicación de ...

Al servicio de Europa

innovación y crisis en la Comisión Europea

¿Cuáles son las funciones de la Comisión Europea?¿Cómo se trabaja y qué clima se respira en ella?¿Cómo se defienden sus intereses?¿Cómo se incorporan los intereses nacionales?¿Cómo se engranó la crisis con el Parlamento que llevó a la dimisión en bloque de ...

Financial intermediation in the New Europe

banks, markets and regulation in EU accession countries

What role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blend of economics and political economy, offers a systematic analysis of the current trends in financial intermediation in the countries ...

Draft treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe as approved by the Intergovernmental Conference on 18 june 2004

La república islámica de Irán

dinámicas sociopolíticas y relevo de las élites

Entender la situación de la República Islámica de Irán, cuando se cumplen veinticinco años de la revolución que le dio origen, obliga a profundizar en su vida sociopolítica para reconsiderar falsas evidencias y esclarecer algunas claves de explicación. El eje en torno al cual se ...

Continentalizing Canadian telecommunications

the politics of regulatory reform

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades. Rideout focuses on the protection of the public ...

Japan's financial crisis

institutional rigidity and reluctant change

At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the ...