2011 Manchester University Press

This book is a self-contained treatment of all the mathematics needed by undergraduate and masters-level students of economics. Building up gently from a very low level, the authors provide a clear, systematic coverage of calculus ...

2011 Manchester University Press

This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernise the country and make it fit for ...

2010 Manchester University Press

This book argues that the welfare state cannot be understood purely as a set of social policy arrangements, but must be seen as a political institution, intended to achieve certain political objectives. The political dimension ...

2010 Manchester University Press

The study of the European Union has historically been a theoretical battleground. Since the 1990's, new theoretical directions such as neo-institutionalism, multi-level governance and constructivism have provided a new impetus. However, these innovations have often ...

2010 Manchester University Press

Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in ...

2010 Manchester University Press

This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to ...

2010 Manchester University Press

Committees are a pervasive presence in the EU policy process yet little is known about the way in which they operate. This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together an international group of experts from ...

2009 Manchester University Press

European citizenship, identity and immigration are constitutive issues facing the European polity and have important consequences for domestic political systems. There has been a great deal published about citizenship within the setting of the nation-state ...

2009 Manchester University Press

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world's largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development. The book challenges an emerging consensus over international organisational change to ...

2009 Manchester University Press

It is increasingly recognised that EU development cooperation policy has failed to meet its stated aims. In this book, available for the first time in paperback, Arts and Dickson ask the obvious and important question: ...

2009 Manchester University Press

Following the restoration of Lithuania's independence and the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad region is now an exclave surrounded by EU member states. Departing from the analytical framework of Europeanisation, this book analyses ...

2008 Manchester University Press

This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. It develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy based on Alasdair MacIntyre's ethics of virtues ...

2007 Manchester University Press

What will happen to the EU in the wake of enlargement? What are the institutional and policy-making changes in light of enlargement? This book, newly available in paperback, deals with the theoretical, conceptual and historical ...

2007 Manchester University Press

This timely volume analyses the impact of enlargement on both pre-existing EU security arrangements and key relationships with the EU's new partners and 'neighbours'. The changing nature of security, the enlargement of European institutions and ...

2007 Manchester University Press

This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the making, the development and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. The environmental policy of the European Union (EU) has made impressive progress during the last three ...

2007 Manchester University Press

How inclusive are NATO and the EU? The enlargement of both organisations seems, on the one hand, to give some substance to the vision of a 'Europe whole and free' articulated at the Cold War's ...

2003 Manchester University Press

This study examines a period of dramatic economic change in Britain during the Thatcher era. The Conservatives' free market policies generally improved the performance of the economy in Britain, but some parts of the country, ...