Executive Power of the European Union: Law, Practices, and the Living Constitution

by Deirdre Curtin

The picture of Brussels-based bureaucrats exercising wide-ranging, arbitrary executive powers with no accountability is one of the favorite images conjured by Eurosceptics across the political spectrum. What truth is there in the image? This book aims to bring the EU's executive powers out of the shadows by mapping the evolution and current form of the EU's various executive actors, their powers, and the mechanisms for holding them accountable. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199264090
• ISBN13: 9780199264094
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"