The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany

Kenneth Dyson is professor in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University. He is a fellow of the British Academy and an Acadenician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences. In 1996 and 2001 he chaired the Higher Education Funding Council research funding panel for European Studies. His most recent books include (with Kevin Featherstone) The Road to Maastricht; Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union, (Oxford University Press 1999), chosen as an academic book of the year by the American library journal Choice; The Politics of the Euro-Zone; Stability or Breakdown (Oxford University Press, 2000): European States and the Euro: Europeanization, Variation and Convergence (Oxford University Press, 2002; and (edited with Klaus Goetz) Germany, Europe and the Politics of Constraint, (British Academy / Oxford University Press, 2003).Stephen Padgett is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde.He has written widely on European politics and policy including the politics of electricity in Europe. His recent publications include Organizing Democracy: Interest Groups in Post-Communist Society (Cambridge University Press 2000) as well as the co-edited volume Developments in German Politics 3 (Palgrave 2003). Recent articles have appeared in Parliamentary Affairs, German Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and (forthcoming) the British Journal of Political Science. He is a co-editor of German Politics.