A holistic and extensive exploration of both the dynamic and incremental changes in EU public policy and the decision processes surrounding them, this Elgar Encyclopedia is the definitive reference work in the field of EU public policy.

Contents: Preface xx 1 Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy 1 Jale Tosun and Paolo Roberto Graziano PART I POLICYMAKING IN THE MULTILEVEL SYSTEM 2 Bureaucratic politics 11 Tobias Bach 3 EU agencies and stakeholders: assessing critical mass and the plurality of voices 21 Ixchel Pérez-Durán and Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar 4 European Administrative Networks 35 Ellen Mastenbroek, Reini Schrama, and Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen 5 European Regulatory Networks 45 Francesca Pia Vantaggiato and Fabrizio De Francesco 6 Interparliamentary cooperation 53 Thomas Malang 7 Multilevel governance 62 Philipp Trein 8 Multilevel governance and the transformation of the state 71 Michaël Tatham 9 National ministerial bureaucracy 81 Vilde Hernes 10 National parliaments and European public policy 89 Katrin Auel and Ivana Skazlic 11 Regions 100 Simona Piattoni and Laura Polverari 12 Supranationalization of government and governance 110 Morten Egeberg PART II INPUT INTO EU PUBLIC POLICY 13 EU-wide interest groups 121 Rainer Eising and Julia Sollik 14 European Citizens Initiative 131 Jale Tosun 15 Evidence-based policymaking 139 Paul Cairney 16 Expertise in EU policy-making 149 Johan Christensen and Åse Gornitzka 17 National interest groups in EU policymaking 160 Danica Fink-Hafner and Meta Novak PART III EUROPEANIZATION OF PUBLIC POLICY 18 Contested and politicised? Recent trends in policy and research on European development policy 171 Christine Hackenesch 19 Europeanization 181 Theofanis Exadaktylos and Paolo Roberto Graziano 20 Europeanization of social policy 192 Robert Henry Cox 21 Foreign policy 199 Heidi Maurer and Nicholas Wright 22 Healthcare 207 Emmanuele Pavolini 23 Policy diffusion 215 Martino Maggetti 24 Diffusion of tax policies in the European Union 223 Achim Kemmerling and Aanor Roland PART IV POLICY INTEGRATION 25 Climate policy integration in the European Union 236 Heiner von Lüpke and Lucas Leopold 26 Development policy integration in the European Union 245 Sebastian Steingass 27 Environmental policy integration 255 Andrea Lenschow and Jan Pollex 28 Gender mainstreaming 266 Sophie Jacquot 29 Policy assessment 276 Sabine Weiland 30 Post-exceptionalism in the Common Agricultural Policy 286 Carsten Daugbjerg and Peter H. Feindt PART V POLICY STYLES 31 Making sense of the relationship between Europeanisation and policy styles 296 Jeroen Candel 32 The Nordic countries in EU public policy-making: between change and continuity 306 Anna Michalski and Helena Wockelberg 33 Policy-making in southern Europe 316 Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos 34 Policy styles in Germany, France, and the UK 327 Samuel B.H. Faure 35 The study of policy style: reflections on a simple idea 337 Jeremy Richardson 36 The transformations of public administration systems in east central Europe 347 Jozef Bátora and Daniel Klimovský PART VI CRISES AND EFFECTS ON EU PUBLIC POLICY 37 Brexit 362 Alan Greer 38 Economic and financial crises in the European Union 373 Lucia Quaglia 39 Energy and climate crises 382 Anna Herranz-Surrallés and Israel Solorio 40 The European Union and youth unemployment: policy responses, policy developments and key challenges 395 Margherita Bussi 41 Focusing events 406 Thomas A. Birkland, Rob A. DeLeo, and Kristin Taylor 42 Migration and asylum in the EU: struggling to overcome policy deadlock 414 Florian Trauner PART VII EU POLICY IMPLEMENTATION 43 Differentiated implementation of EU law and policies 424 Sebastiaan Princen 44 The modalities of policy design: co-design, non-design, and authoritative instrumentalism 434 Michael Howlett 45 The multilevel administrative state 444 Jarle Trondal 46 Noncompliance 453 Ekaterina Domorenok 47 The Open Method of Coordination: a contested public policy instrument still going ‘soft’ 462 Bart Vanhercke and Philippe Pochet 48 Theoretical perspectives on improving policy implementation in the EU 472 Oliver Treib, Ellen Mastenbroek, and Esther Versluis 49 Voluntary implementation – European Neighbourhood Policy 482 Federica Zardo PART VIII EU POLICY DYNAMICS 50 Analyzing EU policy processes: applying the multiple streams framework 494 Nicole Herweg and Reimut Zohlnhöfer 51 Discursive analysis, framing, and the narrative policy framework 504 Amandine Crespy and Camille Nessel 52 Europeanization and convergence 515 Jale Tosun 53 Europeanization and differentiation 525 Eva G. Heidbreder 54 The evolution of the EU’s enlargement policy 536 Antoaneta L. Dimitrova 55 The interactive politics of EU social investment agenda setting 547 Anton Hemerijck and Francesco Corti 56 New institutionalism and European public policy 556 Martin B. Carstensen and Patrick Emmenegger 57 Punctuated equilibrium theory and the EU policy process 567 Leticia Elias and Arco Timmermans 58 Studying EU politics through the ACF—key challenges 577 Karin Ingold PART IX EU POLICY FEEDBACK 59 EU stances of mainstream political parties: historical development, challenges for party strategies, and implications for legislative decision-making in the EU multilevel system 586 Marc Debus 60 Pan-European parties 596 Daniela Braun 61 Policy evaluation: an evolving and expanding feature of EU governance 605 Stijn van Voorst, Pieter Zwaan, and Jonas J. Schoenefeld 62 Policy feedback approach 614 Jennifer Shore 63 Policy learning in the European Union 623 Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli 64 Populism and the European Union 633 Paolo Roberto Graziano 65 Social movements in the European arena: between transnational trajectories and national challenges 642 Guya Accornero and Tiago Carvalho