Mark A. Pollack Bücher

The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament. In The Engines of Integratio, the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics, Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation, agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents, and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration.

Politics and policy in the EU : the challenge of governance / Helen Wallace -- Institutions of the EU : experience and experiments / Helen Wallace -- Budget / Brigid Laffan and Michael Shackleton -- Common agricultural policy / Elmar Rieger -- Single market / Helen Wallace and Alasdair R. Young -- Competition policy / David Allen -- Social policy / Stephan Leibfried and Paul Pierson -- Cohesion and structural adjustment / David Allen -- Environmental policy / Alberta Sbragia -- Energy policy / Janne Haaland Matlary -- Economic and monetary union / Loukas Tsoukalis -- EU policy in the Uruguay Round / Stephen Woolcock and Michael Hodges -- EU policy for the banana market / Christopher Stevens -- Policies towards central and eastern Europe / Ulrich Sedelmeier and Helen Wallace -- Justice and home affairs / Monica den Boer -- Common foreign and security policy / Anthony Forster and William Wallace -- Government without statehood : the unstable equilibrium / William Wallace

Focusing on the contentious debate surrounding genetically modified organisms, the book explores the conflict between the US and the EU. It analyzes how domestic laws, political dynamics, transnational networks, international regimes, and global markets interact in the governance of GM foods and crops. Through a comprehensive empirical approach, it offers insights into the complexities of this global issue.