Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration; W. Kaiser & J-H. Meyer -- Europeanization of Christian Democracy? Negotiating Organization, Enlargement, Policy and Allegiance in the European People's Party; W. Kaiser -- Shaping European Development Policy? Socialist Parties as Mediators from the International to the European Level; C. Salm -- Regulating Markets: Peak Business Associations and the Origins of European Competition Policy; W. Bohrer & L. Warlouzet -- Developing a 'European strategy': Business Groups and Trade Policy-making in the Kennedy Round; L. Coppolaro -- Preventing Reform: Farm Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy; C. Germond -- From Development Business to Civil Society? Societal Actors in Development Cooperation; M. Rempe -- Demanding Democracy in the Workplace: The European Trade Union Confederation and the Struggle to Regulate Multinationals; F. Petrini -- Establishing a Constitutional Practice: The Role of the European Law Associations; M. Rasmussen -- Challenging the Atomic Community: The European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest; J-H. Meyer -- Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration since 1992; K. Heard-LauĊote -- Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration; W. Kaiser & J-H. Meyer
Summary
In this volume an illustrious cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from political parties to business groups and civil society organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an important text for students and Scholars of European Studies, European Union Politics and Political History