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"Poland and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

This article introduces the European Union Policy -- Making (EUPOL) dataset. The dataset contains the complete records of the European Commission's PreLex database, which tracks the interactions between the European institutions on legislative proposals and non-legislative policy documents over time. To be of maximum use to the research community, the dataset is both comprehensive and replicable. It relies on 2600 variables to describe the detailed event histories of more than 29,000 inter-institutional decision-making processes between 1975 and 2009. The data collection has been completely automated, enabling scholars to scrutinize and replicate the generation of the dataset. To illustrate the dataset's general utility and discuss specific pitfalls, I present a descriptive analysis of the outcome and duration of Council decision-making. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 History -- The ebbs and flows in EU-Turkey relations -- Explaining Turkey's tortuous path to Europe -- Virtuous and vicious interactions between the EU and Turkey -- Conclusions -- 2 Turkey as an Enlargement Country -- An overview of Turkey's EU accession process -- Debating Turkey as an enlargement country -- Conclusions -- 3 Turkey as a Neighbour -- An overview of Turkey in its neighbourhood -- The rise of Turkey as a regional player from the EU perspective -- Conclusions -- 4 Turkey as a Global Actor -- An overview of Turkey as a global actor -- Turkey in the world -- Turkey in multilateral fora -- The rise of Turkey as a global actor from the EU perspective -- Conclusions -- 5 The Economy -- Why does the economy matter? Instability and growth of the Turkish economy and ties to the EU -- When does the economy matter? The three lenses for EU-Turkey relations -- To whom does the economy matter? The stakeholders in the EU-Turkey debate -- Conclusions -- 6 Security -- How does security matter in EU-Turkey relations? -- When does security matter? The three lenses for EU-Turkey relations -- To whom does security matter? The stakeholders in the EU-Turkey debate -- Conclusions -- 7 Migration and Mobility -- How do migration and mobility matter in EU-Turkey relations? -- When do migration and mobility matter? The three lenses for EU-Turkey relations -- To whom do migration and mobility matter? The stakeholders in the EU-Turkey debate -- Conclusions -- 8 Democracy and Human Rights -- How do democracy and human rights matter? The cyclical EU-Turkey relationship -- When do democracy and human rights matter? The three lenses for EU-Turkey relations -- To whom do democracy and human rights matter? The stakeholders in the EU-Turkey debate.

We explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate, we assess and compare the effectiveness of eight individual types of policy in reducing income disparities. We derive results for the 27 members of the EU using policies in effect in 2010 and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU as a whole.

"Slovenia and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

The author guides us expertly through the thickets of referendums (no fewer than fourteen from 1972) in which Swiss citizens have been given the opportunity to pass judgment on the European question. Most importantly, this volume explains why the Swiss still oppose joining the European Union. It examines the thorny questions of identity, reservations on policy matters (preserving neutrality, direct democracy and Swiss style federalism), not to mention doubts regarding the economy. Paradoxically, the closer Switzerland gets to the EU through bilateral agreements, the more distant prospects of joining the EU seem to become. This is the conundrum at the heart of the relationship between the Swiss Confederation and the European Union which is expertly explored in this volume.