The governance of European public goods: towards a republican paradigm of European integration

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 European Public Goods in the Neo-Medieval Model of Governance -- Theory of Public Goods -- What Are Public Goods? -- Externalities and the Role of State -- Problems in the Provision of Public Goods -- European Public Goods -- Neo-Medieval Paradigm -- What Is the Neo-Medievalism? -- Main Features of Neo-Medieval Paradigm -- Problems of Neo-Medievalism -- Neo-Medieval Provision of European Public Goods? -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The European Union as a Republic -- Public Goods in the European Context -- Governing Externalities -- The Concept of the Republic -- Historic Roots -- The Republic and the State -- The Logic of Public Goods -- Public Goods, Republics and Citizenship -- Incentive Structures for the Provision of Public Goods -- The Euro and the European Republic -- Democracy and the Principal-Agent Relationship -- State and Republic -- The Sovereignty of the Citizens Against the Power of the State? -- The Federal Order of the Republic -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 On Paradigms and Public Goods: Has the Eurozone Crisis Changed the Economic Paradigm of EMU? -- The Crisis and the Euro Area's Dominant Paradigm -- Studying Policy Paradigms -- Ideas and Paradigms in the Study of Policy-making -- The Three Orders of Policy Change -- The Policy Paradigm of 'Stable Money and Sound Finances' -- Stable Money -- Sound Finances -- The Separation of Monetary and Fiscal Policy -- Major Responses to the Euro Area Crisis: Within or Beyond EMU's Paradigm? -- The Case of EMU Fiscal Surveillance Reform -- The Case of the ECB's Non-Standard Monetary Policy Measures -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Principals and Agents in European Democracy -- The Pre-crisis Discussion About the Democratic Deficit of the European Union