title: Budgeting for Success
abstract: Th e current standard explanation of the remarkable revival or relance of the European Community (EC) in the latter half of the 1980s -a transformative moment that paved the way for the establishment of today ' s European Union in the early 1990s -highlights institutional reform and emerging policy consensus as the two main drivers of process.Diff erent authors, it is true, highlight somewhat diff erent causal links and identify diff erent individuals as the key protagonists.Some accounts are he