This is a unique book-length accounts of the domestic impact of EU membership. Drawing on expert contributions, this volume provides a state of the art account of how membership has affected the institutions of central, devolved and local governance, the activities of organized interests, and major areas of public policy.

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DAVID ALLEN Professor of European and International Politics and Head of the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University, UK JIM BULLER Lecturer in Politics, University of York, UK SIMON BULMER Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Manchester, UK MARTIN BURCH Professor of Government, University of Manchester, UK RACHAEL CHAPMAN Research Fellow, Local Governance Research Unit (LGRU), De Montfort University, UK MICHELLE CINI Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Bristol, UK THOMAS CONZELMANN Assistant Professor of International Relations, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany JENNY FAIRBRASS Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Bradford, UK ANDREW GEDDES Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK RICARDO GOMEZ Honorary Research Fellow in Government, University of Manchester, UK ADAM MARSHALL Research Fellow, Centre for Cities, a Unit of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), UK TIM OLIVER Completing a PhD in the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JAMES SMITH Lecturer in Politics, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK ERIN VAN DER MAAS Completing his PhD Research at the Department of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Britain in Europe and Europe in Britain; I.Bache & A.Jordan Europeanization and Domestic Change; I.Bache & A.Jordan PART TWO: POLITY Central Government; S.Bulmer & M.Burch The Foreign and Commonwealth Office; D.Allen & T.Oliver Government in Scotland; J.Smith The English Regions; M.Burch & R.Gomez Local Governance; A.Marshall PART THREE: POLITICS Political Parties and Party Politics; A.Geddes Organized Interests; J.Fairbrass Trade Unions; E.van der Maas The Third Sector; R.Chapman PART FOUR: POLICIES Foreign Policy; D.Allen & T.Oliver Monetary Policy; J.Buller Competition Policy; M.Cini Environmental Policy; A.Jordan Regional Policy; T.Conzelmann PART FIVE: COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS The Europeanization of British Politics?; I.Bache & A.Jordan