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As economic competition is introduced into areas formerly served by public sector monopolies, to what extent do governments lose discretion over their use of the public sector? States of Liberalization examines the impact of the European Union's rigorous single-market competition policy on the abilities of Western European governments to use the public sector to achieve political objectives. Examining several politically contentious sectors, including government purchasing of goods and services, postal services, and public sector financial institutions, Mitchell P. Smith explores and explains the scope and the limits of this transformation. While European economic integration and the application of European Community competition policy have substantially infused competition into public services, the process has been more modest, and more deliberate, than a simple reading of Europe's potent market-making mechanisms would predict.

Competition --- Concurrence --- Europe --- European Union countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Economic integration. --- Social policy. --- Politics and government. --- Intégration économique --- Politique sociale --- Politique et gouvernement --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- #SBIB:35H1115 --- #SBIB:35H410 --- #SBIB:327.7H230 --- Bestuurlijke organisatie: centrale besturen: Europa: algemeen --- Beleidscyclus: algemene werken --- Europese Unie: beleid: algemeen --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Intégration économique

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Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels, beyond the reach of democratic control. Legitimacy and the European Union breaks with established approaches to the problem of the legitimacy of the European Union by focusing on the recent trend towards reconceptualization of the EU not as a superstate or an organization of states, but as a multi-level, contested polity without precedent. The book examines the implications of this reconceptualization for the problem of legitimacy. Individual chapters focus on policy areas, institutions and identity politics. Taken together, they reach two main conclusions. While Europeans do not strongly identify with the EU, they increasingly recognize it as a framework for politics alongside existing national and subnational structures. And while the EU lacks central democratic institutions, the integration process has spawned significant informal and pluralist forms of representation. Rethinking recognition and representation ouside the context of the nation state points to important, if little understood, actual and potential sources of EU legitimacy. (Bron: covertekst)

Political sociology --- European Union --- Europees beleid --- Europese eenmaking --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:004.IEB --- #SBIB:327.7H201 --- #SBIB:327.7H220 --- 327 --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Europese Unie: politieke theorie --- Europese Unie: instellingen en besluitvorming --- European federation. --- Legitimacy of governments --- European federation --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Federation of Europe --- Pan Europa movement --- Paneuropean federation --- United States of Europe (Proposed) --- Federal government --- Regionalism (International organization) --- European Union. --- E.U.