PUBLIC POLICY Public Policy and the New European Agendas

465 Pages·2007·5.18 MB·English

Public Policy and the New European Agendas
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NEW HORIZONS IN PUBLIC POLICY
Series Editor: Wayne Parsons
Professor of Public Policy, Queen Mary and Westfi eld College,
University of London, UK
This series aims to explore the major issues facing academics and
practitioners working in the fi eld of public policy at the dawn of a new
millennium. It seeks to refl ect on where public policy has been, in both
theoretical and practical terms, and to prompt debate on where it is going.
The series emphasizes the need to understand public policy in the context of
international developments and global change. New Horizons in Public
Policy publishes the latest research on the study of the policymaking process
and public management, and presents original and critical thinking on the
policy issues and problems facing modern and post-modern societies.
Titles in the series include:
Beyond the New Public Management
Changing Ideas and Practices in Governance
Martin Minogue, Charles Polidano and David Hulme
Public Policy and Local Governance
Institutions in Postmodern Society
Peter Bogason
Implementing European Union Public Policy
Roger Levy
The Internationalization of Public Management
Reinventing the Third World State
Edited by Willy McCourt and Martin Minogue
Political Leadership
Howard Elcock
Success and Failure in Public Governance
A Comparative Analysis
Edited by Mark Bovens, Paul t’Hart and B. Guy Peters
Consensus, Cooperation and Confl ict
The Policy Making Process in Denmark
Henning Jørgensen
Public Policy in Knowledge-Based Economies
Foundations and Frameworks
David Rooney, Greg Hearn, Thomas Mandevil/e and Richard Joseph
Modernizing Civil Services
Edited by Tony Butcher and Andrew Massey
Public Policy and the New European Agendas
Edited by Fergus Carr and Andrew Massey
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Public Policy and
the New European
Agendas
Edited by
Fergus Carr
Head, School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies,
University of Portsmouth, UK
Andrew Massey
Professor of Government, School of Social, Historical and
Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK
NEW HORIZONS IN PUBLIC POLICY
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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© Fergus Carr and Andrew Massey, 2006
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Public policy and the new European agendas/edited by Fergus Carr, Andrew
Massey.
p. cm. — (New horizons in public policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. European Union countries—Politics and government. 2. Public
administration—European Union countries. 3. Policy sciences. I. Carr,
Fergus. II. Massey, Andrew, 1958– . III. Series.
JN30.P932 2006
320.6094—dc22
2005055569
ISBN-13: 978 1 84376 813 5
ISBN-10: 1 84376 813 5
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
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Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xii
List of abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Fergus Carr and Andrew Massey
PART I PUBLIC POLICY AND THE PLACE OF EUROPE
1 Public policy and administration in Europe 11
Andrew Massey
2 Whither Europe? 34
Fergus Carr
PART II THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
3 Enlargement and Central and Eastern Europe 61
Petr Drulák
4 EU enlargement and international socialization 81
Frank Schimmelfennig
5 Enlargement: the political and constitutional implications 99
Barbara Lippert
PART III THE PLACE OF EUROPE
6 Europe and the USA: security and defence policy 135
Fergus Carr and Theresa Callan
7 Europe and the USA: trade, fi nance and development 160
Paul McVeigh
8 Russia and the West: the new pragmatism 187
Paul Flenley
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PART IV POLICY SECTORS AND ISSUES
9 Governing the third pillar: institutional development and
external relations in Justice and Home Affairs before and
after 11 September 219
Paul Norman
10 International terrorism and EU immigration, asylum and
borders policy: the unexpected victims of 11 September 2001 233
Elspeth Guild
11 Human rights and civil rights 249
Theresa Callan
12 Agriculture 264
Wyn Grant
13 Environmental policy 277
Pamela Barnes
14 EU regional policy: from side payment to societal security 297
Mike Mannin
15 Health policy challenges in a uniting Europe: the intriguing
cases of health security and tobacco 331
Graham Moon
16 Change, pensions and ageing in Europe: discourses of
risk and security 346
Kay Peggs
17 Conclusion 361
Fergus Carr and Andrew Massey
References 380
Index 437
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Contributors
Pamela Barnes is Principal Lecturer and Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in
European Political Integration in the Department of Law, at the University
of Lincoln, UK. Her current research interests include the implementation
of environmental policy in the new member states, the regional impact of
sustainable development policy, nuclear energy policy development in the
enlarged EU and EU decision making in an increasingly diverse EU. She
has co-authored several books including Environmental Policy in the EU
with I.G. Barnes, published by Edward Elgar Publishing (hb 1999, pb 2000),
and written articles on: enlargement and EU environmental policy; EU
environmental management and audit legislation; the environmental
impact of CAP reforms; the development of the EU’s nuclear energy
strategy, EU employment strategy, and EU institutional developments and
decision making.
Dr Theresa Callan is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the
University of Portsmouth, UK. Her current research interests include the
study of state and nation building in post-confl ict societies and security
after confl ict. She has researched the decommissioning of armaments in
the Balkans and Northern Ireland and is currently publishing the fi ndings.
Her recent publications include, with Fergus Carr, Managing Confl ict in the
New Europe: the Role of International Institutions (Palgrave, 2002).
Fergus Carr is Head of the School of Social, Historical and Literary
Studies and Principal Lecturer in International Politics at the University
of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include the role of international
institutions in the management of confl ict, contemporary security studies
and the external role of the European Union. He has published on NATO,
public policy in Europe and British foreign policy. His recent publications
include, with Theresa Callan, Managing Confl ict in the New Europe: the
Role of International Institutions (Palgrave, 2002).
Petr Drulák is Director of the Institute of International Relations in
Prague. He has published on the theory of international relations,
European integration and EU enlargement in a number of Czech and
international publications including the Journal of International Relations
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and Development, and the Journal of European Public Policy. He is author of
the fi rst Czech textbook on the theory of international relations (2003). He
was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence
in 2003/2004.
Dr Paul Flenley is Principal Lecturer in Politics and Coordinator of
European Studies Masters programmes at the University of Portsmouth,
UK. His current research interests are Russia–EU/NATO relations, Russian
national identity, and the early development of the Soviet state. He is an
editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and has edited
several special issues, most recently in April 2005. He has published in the
areas of Russian nationalism, foreign policy, the media and the Russian
Revolution. Recent publications include: ‘Nationalism and the National
Question in the Soviet Union: Problems of Interpretation’, History Teaching
Review Yearbook, 16, 2002, pp. 15–21; ‘NATO and the Russian Federation:
The Founding Act on Mutual Relations’, with F. Carr, in the Journal of
Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 15, 1999, pp. 88–110; and ‘Russia
and the EU: A Pragmatic and Contradictory Relationship’, Perspectives on
European Politics and Society, 6 (3), 2005.
Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick, UK. He
has published extensively in the fi elds of political economy and comparative
public policy. His most recent books are (with William Coleman and Tim
Josling) Agriculture in the New Global Economy (Edward Elgar, 2004) and
(co-edited with Dominic Kelly) The Politics of International Trade in the
Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2005).
Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Migration Law at the Raboud
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and partner at the London law
fi rm Kingsley Napley. She has researched widely on immigration and asylum
in EU law; her most recent book is Legal Elements of European Identity:
EU Citizenship and Migration Law (Kluwer Law International, The Hague,
2004). She is coordinating, for her university, a European Union Framework
Six Project, CHALLENGE, which brings together 23 universities and
institutes across the EU to examine the relationship of liberty and security
after 11 September 2001 and 11 March 2004.
Dr Barbara Lippert is Deputy Director of the Institut für Europäische
Politik, Berlin, managing editor of the quarterly journal Integration and
Lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin. Recent publications include: The
Pressure of Europeanization. From post-communist state administrations
to normal players in the EU system (co-author; Nomos Verlag, Baden-
Baden, 2005); Bilanz und Folgeprobleme der EU-Erweiterung (editor;
Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2004); ‘European Politics of the Red-Green
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Government: Deepening and Widening Continued’, in Werner Reutter
(ed.), Germany on the Road to ‘Normalcy: Policies and Politics of the
Red-Green Federal Government (1998–2002) (Palgrave, New York, 2004,
pp. 235–52). Current research interests are: EU enlargement policy and its
implications for the political system and policies of the EU; processes of
transformation and integration in Central and Eastern Europe; European
neighbourhood policy and relations with Eastern Europe; and Germany
and European integration.
Mike Mannin is the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at Liverpool
John Moores University, UK and is currently Loewenstein Research Fellow
in Political Science at Amherst College. He has published in the fi elds of
European Union, enlargement and monetary, and regional policy. He is
presently researching the impact of EU membership on the structure and
processes of British government and politics.
Andrew Massey is Professor of Government in the School of Social Historical
and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests
are in the fi elds of public policy and public administration, with a special
emphasis on reform and modernization. He has worked for several British
government departments and is currently a member of a specialist panel
on Global Governance for the International Institute for Administrative
Sciences, Brussels. His recent publications include Public Management
and Modernization in Britain with Robert Pyper (Palgrave, 2005); and
Decentralizing the Civil Service: from unitary state to differentiated polity
in the United Kingdom, with P. Carmichael, J. McMillan and R.A.W. Rhodes
(Open University Press, 2003).
Dr Paul McVeigh is Senior Lecturer in International (Economic) Relations
at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His publications include: ‘Is Spain
still different? The rise of neo-liberalism in Democratic Spain’, in G.
Menz, P. Cerny and S. Soederberg (eds), Internalizing Globalization: the
rise of Neo-Liberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism
(Palgrave, 2006); ‘Introduction’ in D. Coates (ed.), Economic and industrial
performance and policy in Europe since the oil crisis (Cheltenham, Edward
Elgar, 1995); and ‘Globalization and national economic strategy: the case
of Spain’, Journal of European Area Studies, 7 (1), 1999, pp. 73–90. His
research interests include: globalization and neo-liberalism; convergence
and divergence of national capitalisms; European economic integration;
economic development; and global governance.
Graham Moon is Professor of Health Services Research at the University of
Portsmouth, UK. He is a health geographer with current research interests in
the geographies of health-related behaviour, primary health care and mental
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