The EU's Decision Traps

Gerda Falkner Associate Professor for Political Science at the University of Vienna and Director of the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (www.eif.oeaw.ac.at). Her research focuses on European integration.

• Preface ; Abbreviations List ; 1. Introduction: The EU's Decision Traps and their Exits: A Concept for Comparative Analysis ; 2. The Paradigmatic Case: Beyond Emergency Exits in the Common Agricultural Policy ; 3. Overcoming the Joint-Decision Trap in Single-Market Legislation: The Interplay between Judicial and Legislative Politics ; 4. One Trap, Many Exits, but no Free Lunch: How the Joint-Decision Trap Shapes EU Tax Policy ; 5. Financial Market Regulation: A 'Lamfalussy Exit' from the Joint-Decision Trap ; 6. Liberalising the EU's Energy Market: Hard and Soft Power Combined ; 7. Environmental Policy in the Joint-Decision Trap? The Critical Balance between 'Market Making' and 'Market Correcting' ; 8. Social Policy: Problem-Solving Gaps, Partial Exits and Court-Decision Traps ; 9. Increased Differentiation as an Engine for Integration? Studying Justice and Home Affairs ; 10. The EU's Foreign and Security Policy: Incremental Upgrading of Common Interests and the Effects of Institutionalised Cooperation ; 11. Organising Exits from the Joint-Decision Trap? Cross-Sectoral (Non-)Coordination in the European Union ; 12. Escaping Joint-Decision Traps: National and Supranational Experiences Compared ; 13. The JDT Model: Context and Extensions ; 14. In and Out of EU Decision Traps: Comparative Perspectives

The EUs Decision Traps provides a refreshing and in-depth insight into the power structures within the EUs institutional arena...and will be particularly interesting and useful to scholars studying EU decision-making and agenda-setting processes.