JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies

Published in association with UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies

Edited by:
Jim Rollo and Daniel Wincott
Managing Editors: Charles Lees

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 22/209 Economics; 6/55 International Relations; 8/99 Political Science
Impact Factor: 1.837

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies is the leading journal in the field, publishing high quality, and accessible articles on the latest European Integration issues. For 40 years it has been the forum for the development and evaluation of theoretical and empirical issues in the politics and economics of European integration, focusing principally on developments within the EU. JCMS is committed to deepening the theoretical understanding of European integration and aims to achieve a disciplinary balance between political science, economics and international relations, including the various sub disciplines such as international political economy. Each year a special book issue is devoted to a comprehensive review of the activities of the European Union in the previous year.

TopNews and Announcements

JCMS Special Edition Open Competition
Applications are invited for the JCMS Open Competitions for the 2011 special issue. This will appear in the January 2011 issue of the Journal under the general supervision of Michelle Cini and Amy Verdun the incoming editors of JCMS. Proposals should be for 8-10 articles of up to 8,500 words in length, including an editorial overview. Proposals should be concise, and certainly no longer than 750 words. Proposals may come from practitioners as well as academics, and are equally welcome from new or more established scholars. The deadline for the submission of proposals to the JCMS Editorial Office at Sussex European Institute is 1 December 2009, email to jcms@sussex.ac.uk . Proposals will then be passed to a Selection Panels. The successful team will be informed in January 2010 The successful guest editor(s) will be expected to take on the full editorial task up to the handover to copy editors, including finding reviewers and managing any consequent revisions. The successful teams of applicants will be expected to organise a JCMS-funded workshop in spring 2010 to discuss drafts of the papers for which there is a budget of up to £1000 and to which the JCMS editors should be invited. After the workshops, papers should be reviewed according to exacting JCMS standards in time to be passed to the copy editor in July 2010, Proposers should be aware that this is a tight timetable to manage. The decision of the Selection Panel is final. There is no appeal. Communication on the substance of any proposal with members of the panel will result in automatic exclusion from the competition. Any further enquiries may be addressed to: Sally Marthaler Sussex European Institute, jcms@sussex.ac.uk , +44 (0) 1273 678713

Online Manuscript Submission
You can now submit your manuscript to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies online via Manuscript CentralTM. To submit go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jocms.

JCMS Scholarship
The newly launched JCMS scholarship is designed to provide mobility to existing post-doctoral scholars or postgraduate students from India or China in order that they can undertake research in an EU member state or candidate state. For more information and to enter, please visit http://www.uaces.org/JCMSscholarships.htm.

JCMS article featured in the Sunday Times
What Makes a Good EU Presidency? by Lucia Quaglia and Edward Moxon-Browne (Volume 44, Issue 2)
To read the full article online, please click here

TopHighlights

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When and Why the EU Council of Ministers Votes Explicitly
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Wim Van Aken and Helen Wallace

The authors' data set on explicitly contested voting in the Council is available at www.councildata.cergu.gu.se as a resource for other researchers working on the subject and to provide more detailed background to the summary information in the volume. This data includes both statistics in a form that hopefully others can manipulate and textual information on the subject matters and kinds of decisions at issue. Readers should note that the website contains corrected information that marginally amends Table 3 in the article version. In addition the website cited above contains data from several other studies of Council decision-making. Daniel Naurin of the University of Gothenburg has done a heroic job in developing this website.

Renationalizing or Regrouping? EU Foreign Policy Since 11 September 2001
Christopher Hill

A Single EU Seat in the IMF?
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Europe and the Future of Economic Governance
Pascal Lamy

Exchange Rates and Cohesion: Historical Perspectives and Political-Economy Considerations
Barry Eichengreen, David Leblang

Eastern European Attitudes to Integration with Western Europe
Anetta Caplanova, Marta Orviska, John Hudson

Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance of European Listed Companies: EU Policy Developments Before and After Enron
Ian P. Dewing, Peter O. Russell

New Governance in the European Union: A Theoretical Perspective
Burkard Eberlein, Dieter Kerwer

E Pluribus Unum? Creative Disagreement About Legitimacy in the EU
Christopher Lord, Paul Magnette

The Logic of Access to the European Parliament: Business Lobbying in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Pieter Bouwen

TopEndorsements

'The JCMS is an extremely important publication.'
Pascal Lamy, European Union Trade Commissioner

'Required Reading for the euro-interested, be they europhile or euro-sceptic.'
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist at the EBRD and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England