The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy provides an in-depth and systematic understanding of EU policies. It covers theoretical approaches on the policy process and the various stages of public policy-formulation and decision making; and discusses key questions of contemporary European governance.

1. EU Policymaking: Issues and Debates [Laurie Buonanno and Nikolaos Zahariadis] Section 1: Concepts and Approaches - Overview [Nikolaos Zahariadis] 2. Principal-agent Models [Yannis Karagiannis and Mattia Guidi] 3. Regulatory Governance in the EU [Alessandro Cagossi] 4. Multiple Streams [Nicole Herweg and Nikolaos Zahariadis] 5. Punctuated Equilibrium Theory [Christian Breunig, Daniela Beyer, and Marco Radojevic] Section 2: Substantive Policies - Overview [Nikolaos Zahariadis] Part I: Economic and Social 6. The Internal Market [Laurie Buonanno] 7. EU Competition Rules and the European Integration Project [Angela Wigge and Hubert Buch-Hansen] 8. Changing Governance of Cohesion Policy [Carolyn Dudek] 9. Social Policy [Claire Dupuy and Sophie Jacquot] 10. Gender Policy [Sophie Jacquot] Part II: Fiscal and Monetary 11. Economic and Monetary Union [Waltraud Schelkle] 12. Banking Policy [Stefaan DeRynck] 13. The 'Globalization Trilemma' and the EMU's Second-order 'Democratic Deficit' [Nikitas Konstantinidis and Ruben Treurniet] 14. The EU Budget [Gabriele Cipriani] Part III: Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 15. European Immigration and Asylum Policy [Alexander Caviedes] 16. Police and Judicial Cooperation Policy [Stephen Rozée, Christian Kaunert and Sarah Léonard] 17. European Union Privacy and Data Protection Policy [George Christou] Part IV: External Policies 18. The Common Foreign and Security Policy [Sara Kahn-Nisser] 19. Trade Policy [Holly Jarman] 20. Enlargement Policy [Neill Nugent] 21. The European Neighbourhood Policy [Mariam Dekanozishvili] Part V: Sectoral Policies 22. The CAP: Common Dynamics of Policy Change in an Uncommon Policy Domain [Gerry Alons and Pieter Zwaan] 23. European Energy Policy [Nicole Herweg] 24. EU Policy on the Environment [Jale Tosun] Section 3: The Policy Cycle - Overview [Laurie Buonanno] 25. Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in the European Union [Andreas Hofmann] 26. Agenda Setting in the European Union [Petya Alexandrova and Marcello Carammia] 27. Understanding the EU's Policymaking Institutions [John McCormick] 28. Strategic Framing and the European Commission [Mark Rhinard] 29. Implementation and Enforcement of EU Polices [Gerda Falkner] 30. If Evaluation is the Solution, What is the Problem? [Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli] Section 4: Themes Part I: Crisis and Resistance - Introduction [Sabine Saurugger] 31. Resisting in Times of Crisis: The Implementation of European Austerity Plans in Ireland and Greece [Clément Fontan, Sabine Saurugger and Nikolaos Zahariadis] 32. Resistance in European Union Health Care Policy [Scott L. Greer] 33. Evasion as a Mechanism of Resistance (not only) to European Law [Annette Elisabeth Töller] Part II: Controversies in Education - Introduction [Martina Vukasovic] 34. European Level Policy Dynamics in Higher Education [Martina Vukasovic] 35. The Infusion of Europe in Public Policy: The Case of Higher Education [Pauline Ravinet]