Globalisation and EU policy-making
the neo-liberal transformation of telecommunications and electricity
- ISBN: 9780719066429
- Editorial: Manchester University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: Manchester. Reino Unido
- Colección: European Policy Research Unit Series
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 228
- Idiomas: Inglés
Assesses and contrasts the roles of globalisation, institutions and ideas on policy-making in the EU Views the creation of liberalised European single markets in the telecommunications and electricity supply sectors out of national monopolies as an example of the dramatic transformation of economic organisation across Europe in the last twenty years Connects micro policy-making processes in two industrial sectors to macro international political economy Covers the period from the mid 1980s, when the single market came on the agenda, through the liberalising initiatives in the 1990s to the new regulatory framework in communications in 2002 and the 2003 directive on the full liberalisation of electricity by 2007 Will be of interest to anyone studying globalisation, European integration and policy-making, regulation and policy in utility sectors.
