Most Popular Books by David Howarth

This book, the first biography in fifty years of the man Horace Walpole described as ''the Father of vertu in England'', will be fascinating reading to those interested in the arts and to political and social historians.

The Valley of Gold A Tale of the Saskatchewan BY DAVID HOWARTH

Now in its second edition, Tort Law makes this difficult area of the law easy to understand and master. Written in a lively, clear and friendly style, Tort Law tells students all they need to know in order to approach their exams in this subject with confidence. Students studying tort law at degree level or for the CPE/Graduate Diploma in Law will regard Tort Law as essential reading; as will students doing more advanced work on the law of obligations at undergraduate or graduate level. Academics, practitioners and judges working in the field of tort law will also find Tort Law an indispensable source of ideas, arguments and advice.

David Howarth, Francesca Musiani, Julia Pohle and Dwayne Winseck were invited to discuss the main topic of this special issue, “The internet and the EU market.” This conversation at the crossroads of several research areas (communication studies, sociology, science and technology studies and political science) brought together leading experts who shared their experience, research and expertise on the internet, European integration, governance issues, etc. They referred to several topics that are addressed in the papers in this issue, such as the taxation of digital services, net neutrality and the openness of networks, as they discussed questions related to the realities and limits of the notion of “Digital Europe”, changing discourses on the EU''s digital economy, the concept of European governance and the turning points and key events in the relationship between the internet and the EU market since the 1990s.

Specifically written for social science students at all levels, this book looks at the origins and developments of structuralist, post-structuralist and postmodern theory. Exploring issues of structure, agency and power, and questions around relativism and analytic method, this is a comprehensive account of a key area in social theory.

Established at the height of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, the intergovernmental European Stability Mechanism (ESM) has, potentially, considerable influence over decisions on the provision of loans to Eurozone member state governments and on the recapitalization of banks. Legally and organizationally, the ESM is an international financial institution and thus its accountability can be compared to that of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international financial institutions. However, the ESM''s governance structure and decision-making procedures show that it is deeply embedded in the Eurozone governance architecture, resulting in a dual institutional embeddedness. Focusing on vertical and horizontal accountability combined with a learning perspective on accountability, this article presents an assessment of the accountability mechanisms applicable to the idiosyncratic ESM and how these mechanisms work in practice.

Abstract: This paper argues that, on the development of European Union (EU)/Eurozone fiscal capacity German governments have consistently engaged in foot-dragging. Few German state elites have ever supported European fiscal capacity building beyond the EC budget. Following the outbreak of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, German governments agreed to the creation of financial support mechanisms only with reluctance. We see a case of continuity in German policy preferences driven by consistent ordoliberal and, specifically, moral hazard concerns. The important long-term change that we can observe relates to the growing importance for successive governments of avoiding audience costs driven by sceptical public opinion and the rise of a challenger party in German politics. German government support for a massive EU fiscal response to the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates an exceptional policy position in favour of temporary financial mechanisms involving no fisca

The failure of the Raffarin Government to respect the Stability and Growth Pact (Stability Pact, SP), its call for the Pact''s reconceptualisation, reform of the management of the Euro-zone''s monetary policy and EU-level reflation should be seen not as a significant change in French policy on ''gouvernement economique'' (that is, EU-level economic governance (GE) but as a reassertion of long standing but contradictory French preferences. French policy-makers have been caught in a dilemma with regard to the construction of the Economic dimension of EMU between two strong preferences: on the one hand the supranational consequences of a dirigiste approach to macro-economic policy and, on the other hand, a Gaullist reflex to retain sovereignty as much as possible and to insist upon intergovernmentalism in EU-level macroeconomic policy-making. The ''price stability'' function of GE as embodied by the Maastricht Treaty rules on convergence and the SP has been consistently marginalized in the discourse of French governments of both the Right and Left. Rather EG has been presented in five overlapping ways which can all be seen in terms of the paradox of the French pursuit of both reinforced macroeconomic policy coordination at the EU level yet also national margin of manoeuvre through intergovernmental policy making. Crucially, this paradox also explains the lack of clarity and inconsistency in French pronouncements on GE. Most elements of the 2002 Commission and Ecofin SP reform proposals and the precise elements of the Pact reform finally agreed in March 2005 met with French approval given that they render the SP more flexible allowing greater margin of manoeuvre in the development and implementation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPG) and the application of the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP), thus better meeting French intergovernmentalist preferences on EG but undermining the coordination of national macroeconomic policies that could contribute to an effective policy mix with the ECB''s monetary policy.

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