• Provides significantly more comprehensive coverage than competing texts, allowing instructors to customise the text for any module no matter what the emphasis or perspective.
• Assumes no background knowledge, making it accessible to first year students.
• Carefully edited contributions from international experts, providing students with authoritative and accessible content.
• Provides coverage of not only Western, but also Central and Eastern Europe, taking into account the enlargement of the European Union.
• Excellent learning features throughout to support student learning, including readers guides, key points, questions, guide to further reading, web links, boxes, and a glossary.
• Cutting-edge Online Resource Centre with an interactive map of Europe, Multiple Choice Questions, flashcard glossary and PowerPoint slides.
• Two-colour text to aid navigation.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students undertaking a course on European Politics, Comparative Politics, European Union Politics or Introduction to Politics.

Edited by Colin Hay, Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Birmingham, and Anand Menon, Director of the European Research Institute and Professor of European Politics at the University of Birmingham

"All of the chapters are well written by outstanding scholars, providing comprehensive but accessible coverage of the topic. The book is commendable reading for students and a useful didactic instrument for lecturers in the field of European studies." - Sorm Denca, University of Birmingham

Colin Hay & Anand Menon: Introduction
Part One: Politics in European States
1: John Bendix: Germany
2: Robert Elgie: France
3: David Hine: Italy
4: Ben Rosamond: Britain
5: Eric Einhorn & John Logue: Scandinavia
6: Stephen Wolinetz: Belgium and the Netherlands
7: Jonathan Hopkin: Spain and Portugal
8: Nathalie Tocci: Greece, Turkey and Cyprus
9: Tim Haughton: Central and Eastern Europe
Part Two: Political Dynamics in Contemporary Europe
10: Desmond Dinan: The European Integration Process
11: Hussein Kassim: The Institutions of the European Union
12: Robert Ladrech: European Parties and Party Systems
13: Colin Crouch: Social Change
14: B. Guy Peters: Executives
15: Lisa Conant: Courts
Part Three: Public Policies of Europe
16: Grahame F Thompson: Economic Management in the Eurozone
17: Linda Hantrais: Welfare Policy
18: Wyn Grant and Jane Feehan: Environmental Policy
19: Randall Hansen: Migration Policy
20: Lee McGowan: Competition and Industrial Policy
Part Four: Europe in the Wider World
21: Ania Krok-Paszkowaka and Jan Zielonka: European Union Enlargement
22: Alasdair R. Young: External Economic Relations
23: Jolyon Howorth: Transatlantic Relations
24: Colin Hay and Anand Menon: Conclusion