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