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"One of the most common and strongest criticisms of the EU is that power is held by a select few who are unaccountable technocrats sitting in Brussels who without consultation formulate policies. A fresh and innovative new series, written by leading authorities, providing students and researchers with a concise analysis of key topics relating to the state of the European Union and its future development. Combining insights from the theoretical literature with brief institutional descriptions, each book in the series focuses on the key questions, 'Where does power lie?', 'What are the likely scenarios for development?', thereby enabling the reader to gain a better sense of the dynamic processes of politics at EU level."--Provided by publisher.

The global wine industry is a continually modifying market impacted by financing, culture, and politics. "Economics, Governance, and Politics in the Wine Market" follows developments in European agriculture policies on wine legislation and market trend orientation between political power and market structure, from their inception through recent reforms. This political economic analysis seeks to explain the implementation of wine policies applied to production management in Europe. Gaeta and Corsinovi use The Public Choice model to describe bargaining and trade-off in agriculture wine policy by governments, producers, and critical industrial organizations. They argue that market problems cannot be analyzed without an understanding of the motives and processes behind upstream policy decisions. With the book's theoretical approaches and famous case studies, readers become agricultural wine experts capable of navigating the current complex wine market of the European Union

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Enlargement and reform in the European Union; Rational choice and institutional change: an overview of current theories; Constitutional aspects of enlargement; Constitutional issues regarding European Union expansion; Enlargement of the European Union: determining the boundaries of an optimal legal area; The politics of institutional change: diverging goals for reforming the European legislature; An even wider Union: the effects of enlargement on EU decision-making.