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The "Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe," agreed upon in 2004, is currently waiting to be implemented in the slightly modified form as "Reform Treaty" or "Treaty of Lisbon." Regarding the modernized institutional framework and the updated politico-administrative procedures, the new Member States of Central and Eastern Europe are challenged in a specific way, as their political systems and legal orders do not yet enjoy the stability and continuity of the established Member States. This volume presents a number of crucial case studies and comparative analyses in which leading lawyers, economists, social scientists, and historians reflect upon the challenges ahead and possible options for change.

Der Band dokumentiert den ungewöhnlichen Prozess der Verfassunggebung in Europa, begonnen mit dem Entwurf einer "Verfassung für Europa" durch Giscard d'Estaing im Juli 2003. Er analysiert die Konventsarbeit, die Ratifizierungsverfahren und die Krisen nach den ablehnenden Voten in Frankreich und den Niederlanden sowie den Versuch, ein neues Integrationsverständnis zu entwickeln.

How to Move Ahead / Joachim Jens Hesse / Jan-Erik Lane / Yoichi Nishikawa P.359

As the study of administrative reform has progressed over the past decades, worthy descriptive research on these changes has accumulated across a number of countries. This volume seeks to push the analysis beyond said first generation of research, focusing on the »paradoxes« or unintended effects of public sector reform. Therefore, it does not attempt to provide a detailed description of administrative change in the 14 systems considered, but to analyse them selectively from a »paradox perspective«, i. e. highlighting apparently surprising or unintended aspects of administrative reform. The administrative systems discussed in this volume include not only the developed industrial democracies, but also transitional and developing countries such as the People's Republic of China and the former socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore, the European Union is analysed as a compound administrative system constructed from its constituent parts.