1. Introduction: Amsterdam and beyond ; PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS ; 2. The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance? ; 3. The European Commission: A balancing act between autonomy and dependence ; 4. The Slow March of European Legislation: The implementation of directives ; 5. Beyond Amsterdam: Regional integration as social process ; PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY ; 6. Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President investiture procedure reduce the democratic deficit? ; 7. Justifying Comitology: The promise of deliberation ; 8. Political Representation in the EU: A common whole, various wholes or just a hole? ; PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT ; 9. Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty ; 10. Flexibility: A tool of integration or a restraint on disintegration? ; 11. Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and exclusion ; 12. East of Adam: The implications for eastern enlargement of the Amsterdam Treaty ; PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE ; 13. Precedents and Present Events: An institutional perspective on treaty reform ; 14. A Blairite Treaty: Neo-liberalism and regulated capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam ; 15. Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam ; 16. The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission belt and prism of new governance

`contains a great number of excellent chapters that repay careful reading ... many of the individual chapters make an important contribution to the current scholarly debate on EU governance.' Brigid Laffan, West European Politics, Vol.24, No.1, Jan 2001

Significant contribution to a topical, contemporary, and controversial issue Contributions from leading political scientists Examines the key issues facing the European Union in light of the revision of the Amsterdam Treaty Examines and highlights a range of key institutional and political questions in relation to the EU

Significant contribution to a topical, contemporary, and controversial issue Contributions from leading political scientists Examines the key issues facing the European Union in light of the revision of the Amsterdam Treaty Examines and highlights a range of key institutional and political questions in relation to the EU