Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Amsterdam and Beyond -- PART I: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS -- 2. The Amsterdam Treaty: The Blueprint for the Future Institutional Balance? -- 3. The European Commission: A Balancing Act between Autonomy and Dependence -- 4. The Slow March of European Legislation: The Implementation of Directives -- 5. Beyond Amsterdam: Regional Integration as Social Process -- PART II: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY -- 6. Executive Selection in the European Union: Does the Commission President Investiture Procedure Reduce the Democratic Deficit? -- 7. Justifying Comitology: The Promise of Deliberation -- 8. Political Representation in the European Union: A Common Whole, Various Wholes, or Just a Hole? -- PART III: FLEXIBILITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT -- 9. Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty -- 10. Flexibility: A Tool of Integration or a Restraint on Disintegration? -- 11. Abuses of Asymmetry: Privilege and Exclusion -- 12. East of Amsterdam: The Implications of the Amsterdam Treaty for Eastern Enlargement -- PART IV: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE -- 13. Precedents and Present Events in the European Union: An Institutional Perspective on Treaty Reform -- 14. A Blairite Treaty: Neo-Liberalism and Regulated Capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam -- 15. Constitutional Settlements and the Citizen after the Treaty of Amsterdam -- 16. The Embedded Acquis Communautaire: Transmission Belt and Prism of New Governance -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.