Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Taking the EU to Court -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 The Neglected Politics Behind EU Annulment Litigation -- Policy and Institutional Relevance of Annulments -- Annulment Over Time and Across Policy Areas: Empirical Evidence -- Structure of the Book -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 2 Towards an Analytical Framework to Study Annulments in the EU -- Research Questions -- Multilevel Governance and Conflict in the EU -- EU Policy Making and Litigant Configurations -- Judicial Politics and Judicial Success -- Conceptualizing Multilevel Annulment Conflict -- Horizontal v. Vertical Conflict -- Simple v. Complex Conflicts -- A Multilevel and Multi-step Analytical Approach -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 3 The Legal Background -- Actions for Annulment: Some Essentials -- An Evolving Set of Reviewable Acts -- An Evolving List of Applicants -- Conclusion -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 4 Studying Annulment Actions -- Research Strategy -- Case Selection -- Data -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Motivations: When Conflict Leads to Litigation -- Conceptualizing Motivations for Litigation -- Material Gains -- Institutional Competences -- Ideology -- Political Trust -- Empirical Analysis -- The Legal Factor -- Material Gains-Driven Motivation in Annulment Litigation -- The Potato Starch Case (T-557/13) -- Adjustment of Salaries and Pensions of Eurocrats (C-196/12, C-66/12, C-63/12) -- Institutional Competences-Driven Motivation in Annulment Litigation -- The Renewable Energies Law Case (T-134/14 and T-47/15) -- The Leipzig Halle Case (T-396/08) and the Dresden Airport Case (T-215/09) -- Procedural Competences in Trade Negotiations (C-22/70 and C-425/13) -- The Selective Tax Benefits Cases (T-219/10, T-399/11).

Ideology-Driven Cases in Annulment Litigation -- The EPSO and Patent Package Cases (T-148/13, T-149/13, T-191/13, C-274/11, C-147/13) -- Passenger Rights (C-317/04 and C-318/04) -- The Private Pension Market Case (C-57/95) -- Political Trust-Driven Annulment Cases -- Toy Safety Case (T-198-12) -- The Molluscs Case (T-204/11) -- BMW Case (T-671/14) -- Conclusion -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 6 Litigant Configurations: Turbulence and the Emergence of Complex Configurations -- Engaging with Complexity -- Theorizing Complex Litigant Configurations -- Complex Litigant Patterns in the Face of Institutional Turbulence -- The Expanded Tobacco Case (T-170/03) -- Spanish Coal Case (T-57/11) -- Conclusion -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 7 Litigant Success: How Litigant Configurations Relate to Legal Outcomes -- Litigant Configurations and Judicial Success: What We Know -- Litigant Configurations and Endogeneity: A New Approach -- Litigant Configurations and Legal Reasoning -- Empirical Patterns of Litigant Configurations and Legal Success -- Distributive Effects and Feedback of Winning or Losing a Case -- Winning Can Be Aligned with Legal Success -- Material Gains -- Institutional Competences -- Ideological and Policy Preferences -- Winning Can Be Disconnected from Legal Success -- Material Gains -- Institutional Competences -- Political Trust -- Conclusion -- Cases Cited -- References -- Chapter 8 The Political Side of EU Annulment Litigation -- The Motivations Behind Annulment Actions -- Actor Configurations in Annulment Conflicts -- Success, Failure, and Feedback Effects -- Beyond the State of the Art: How Explaining Annulment Cases Challenge Common Research Perspectives -- References -- Correction to: Taking the EU to Court.

Correction to: C. Adam et al., Taking the EU to Court, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21629-0 -- Annexes -- References -- Index.

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