The Institutions of the European Union (New European Union Series) - Softcover

John Peterson is Jean Monnet Professor of European politics at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium). He is editor of the 'Journal of Common Market Studies' and the 'New European Union' series (with Helen Wallace) for Oxford University Press. Past works include 'Decision-Making in the European Union' (with Elizabeth Bomberg, 1999), a nominee for the Adolphe Bentinck prize for the best published work on Europe, as well as 'A Common Foreign Policy for Europe?' (co-edited with Helene Sjursen,1998), and 'Technology Policy in the European Union' (with Margaret Sharp, 1998). He has held posts at the Universities of York, Essex, Oxford, California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara), Grenoble and Paris I. Michael Shackleton is Head of Division of the Conciliations Secretariat in the Secretariat of the
European Parliament Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium. He has held a range of positions in the
European Parliament since 1981, notably in the Committee on Budgets, the Division for relations
with national parliaments and as Head of the Committee of Inquiry into the Community Transit
System. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Common Market
Studies and has published a wide range of articles in this journal and elsewhere. In 1990-1 he
was a Visiting European Community Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has
since been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (1994-99) and is at present a Visiting
Practitioner Fellow at the University of Sussex, and a lecturer on the MA in European Studies
organised by the European Institute for Public Administration and the University of Maastricht.

'This study attains the level set by Wallace and Wallace (Policy-Making in the European Union) and will be greeted by scholars and teachers in the field of EU studies with the same level of enthusiasm.....distinguished by the clarity and comprehensiveness of (its) institutional coverage...'
Professor William E. Paterson, University of Birmingham

"Brilliant" Thomas Christiansen, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

'Students of EU politics who are looking to grasp how the institutions operate and interact with each other on a daily basis will benefit from reading this book.' European Access Plus