Foreword : Vincent Wright : engagement with history, political science, and economics / Tony Atkinson
Preface : Grappling with untidy reality : Vincent Wright's comparative complexities / Jack Hayward
Institutions and the evolution of European democracy / Peter A. Hall
National courts and Community law / Paul P. Craig
On studying governments / Rudy B. Andeweg
What is new about governance and why does it matter? / R.A.W. Rhodes
Executives in comparative context / Klaus H. Goetz
The political system of the European Union / Neill Nugent and William Paterson
Dismantling and rebuilding the Weberian state / B. Guy Peters
The age of administrative reforms / Sabino Cassese
The European administration : between Europeanization and domestication / Hussein Kassim
Europeanization and the persistence of administrative systems / Edward C. Page
The decline of party? / Gordon Smith
Comparing economic interest organizations / Colin Crouch
Interest groups and the Brussels bureaucracy / Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson
Contentious politics in Western Europe and the United States / Sidney Tarrow
From popular dissatisfaction to populism : democracy, constitutionalism and corruption / Yves Mény
Democratizations in the European periphery / Sonia Alonso and José María Maravall
The politics of regulation and European regulatory institutions / Giandomenico Majone
From industrial policy to a regulatory state : contrasting institutional change in Britain and France / Mark Thatcher
Monetary policy and the euro / Loukas Tsoukalis
Recasting European welfare states / Maurizio Ferrera, Anton Hemerijck and Martin Rhodes
The changing European state / Wolfgang C. Müller
The changing European state : pressures from within / Patrick Le Galès
International relations, international institutions, and the European state / Andrew Hurrell and Anand Menon
Conclusion : governing Europe / Anand Menon.