Ulrika Mörth

Sverige har ett väl utbyggt väg- och järnvägsnät av god standard. Men det betyder inte att transportinfrastrukturen är färdigbyggd. Nya investeringar behövs och existerande infrastruktur måste underhållas. Det kräver investeringsplaner som är väl genomtänkta och analyserade utifrån transportpolitikens uppställda mål. SNS Konjunkturråd 2016 identifierar klara skillnader mellan de mål som riksdagen har formulerat och den faktiska politiken. De pekar på betydelsen av att använda den samhällsekonomiska analysen för att på ett tydligt sätt jämföra kostnader för väg- och järnvägsprojekten med dess vinster i form av bland annat kortare restid, högre transportkvalitet, bättre miljö och minskade olycksrisker. Konjunkturrådet konstaterar att större samhällsnytta är möjlig om projekt med högre samhällsekonomisk lönsamhet prioriteras och föreslår åtgärder för att få en bättre överensstämmelse mellan faktisk politik och uppställda mål. I Konjunkturrådet 2016 medverkar Harry Flam (ordförande), professor i internationell ekonomi vid Institutet för internationell ekonomi, Stockholms universitet, Maria Börjesson, docent i transportsystemanalys vid Centrum för transportstudier, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Ulrika Mörth, professor i statsvetenskap vid Stockholms universitet, och Jan-Eric Nilsson, professor i transportekonomi vid Statens väg- och trafikforskningsinstitut.

This book looks at some of the major themes concerning governance in the EU, namely the focus on market-friendly regulations, output legitimacy and how the requirement of efficiency is combined with the requirement of democratic accountability. The dilemma between efficiency and democratic accountability is analysed in three cases of close collaboration between public and private actors: the European satellite navigation programme (Galileo), the European Investment Bank and health policies, and the European financial market - especially the banking sector. The background to this interest in the dilemma between efficiency and democratic accountability is that this is a time when the borders between the public and private spheres are being re-evaluated, transferred and becoming more porous. The author makes a compelling case to show that authority is being shared between public and private actors, rather than power being delegated - inn contrast with the apparent mode of democratic accountability. European Public-Private Collaboration will be warmly welcomed by postgraduate students and researchers of European studies and public policy.

The emergence of a European policy on armaments is an important and politically controversial component in the building of Europe. Should European cooperation on armaments be designed from a market and a competition perspective, and according to supranational decision making? Or is it the emerging European defense policy and intergovernmental decision-making style that should determine such cooperation? The controversy and tension between the ways of framing this issue highlight fundamental questions in European politics. Organizing European Cooperation shows that the issue of armaments has been conceptualized within two different projects of European integration: the political economy project, developed through the EC, and the defense and security project, organized through NATO, the WEU, and recently through the EU. By employing an innovative theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of European politics the author's analysis of both public actors, such as the Council, the European Commission, and NATO, and non-state actors, such as aerospace companies and business interest organizations, makes this book a valuable tool for anyone trying to understand the interaction between two European organizational fields-market and defense-and the emergence of a new European organizational field on armaments.

The emergence of a European policy on armaments is an important and politically controversial component in the building of Europe. Should European cooperation on armaments be designed from a market and a competition perspective, and according to supranational decision making? Or is it the emerging European defense policy and intergovernmental decision-making style that should determine such cooperation? The controversy and tension between the ways of framing this issue highlight fundamental questions in European politics. Organizing European Cooperation shows that the issue of armaments has been conceptualized within two different projects of European integration: the political economy project, developed through the EC, and the defense and security project, organized through NATO, the WEU, and recently through the EU. By employing an innovative theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of European politics the author's analysis of both public actors, such as the Council, the European Commission, and NATO, and non-state actors, such as aerospace companies and business interest organizations, makes this book a valuable tool for anyone trying to understand the interaction between two European organizational fields-market and defense-and the emergence of a new European organizational field on armaments.