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Frank Schimmelfennig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Europeanization beyond Europe
Living Reviews in European Governance, 2012Co-Authors: Frank SchimmelfennigAbstract:This article reviews the literature on Europeanization beyond the group of EU member, “quasi-member” and applicant states. It uses the analysis of Europeanization in applicant states as a theoretical starting point to ask if, how and under which conditions we can expect domestic effects of European integration beyond Europe. Focusing on Europeanization effects in the areas of regionalism, democracy and human rights, and the literature on the European Neighborhood Policy in particular, the article collects findings on the strategies and instruments as well as the impact and effectiveness of the EU. The general conclusion to be drawn from the theoretical and empirical literature reviewed is one of low consistency and impact.
Trine Flockhart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Europeanization or EU-Ization? The Transfer of European Norms Across Time and Space
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Trine FlockhartAbstract:What is the content of Europeanization? Which causal relationships should be explained? Which theory should be used? In answering these questions, the article forwards a conceptualization of Europeanization based on Historical Sociology and Social Constructivism, which implies a departure from the practice in the current Europeanization literature to concentrate on the contemporary with a narrow focus (EU-ization) at the expense of the historical with a broad focus (Europeanization). It is suggested that the causal relationships to be explained are the transfer of European ideas across time and space using a ‘present-as-reality’ definition of the European idea set. In doing so, it becomes apparent that Europeanization cannot be accepted as either static or something that is solely connected to the EU, and that Europeanization has been characterized by diffusion patterns going both into and out of Europe and sociological processes involving subtle shifts in process, structure, agents and conceptions of ‘Other’ and ‘Significant We’.
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The Europeanization of Europe: The transfer of norms to Europe, in Europe and from Europe
2008Co-Authors: Trine FlockhartAbstract:2 1. The hidden sociological content in Europeanization 9 2. The missing historical content in Europeanization and its consequences 12 Stages of Europeanization 17 3. Theorizing Europeanization 18 4. Stages of Europeanization 21 The period of European selfrealization ( ) 28 The period of Contemporary (outward) Europeanization and EU-ization (1945 >) 30 Conclusion 32 References 33
Claudio M. Radaelli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Politics of Europeanization - The politics of Europeanization
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Kevin Featherstone, Claudio M. RadaelliAbstract:THEORISING Europeanization 1. Introduction: In the name of Europe 2. The Europeanization of public policy 3. Conceptualising the domestic impact of Europe COMPARING INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS 4. Meeting the demands of EU membership: The Europeanization of national administrative systems 5. Variable geometry, multi-level governance: European integration and sub-national government in the new Millenium 6. Europeanization in comparative perspective: Institutional fit and national adaptation EUROPEANISATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS 7. Europeanization as interpretation, trnslation, and editing of public policies 8. Europeanization as Convergence: the regulation of media markets in the European Union 9. The impact of the European Union on environmental policies INTEREST GROUPS AND EUROPEANISATION 10. Europeanization and organisational change in national trade associations 11. Differential Europeanization: large and small firms in the EU policy process UNDERSTANDING 'EUROPE' AS A POLICY MODEL 12. The idea of the European social model: Limits and paradoxes of Europeanisation 13. Europeanisation goes east: power and uncertainty in the EU accession process CONCLUSIONS 14. Conclusions: A conversant research agenda
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Research Design in European Studies: The Case of Europeanization
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Theofanis Exadaktylos, Claudio M. RadaelliAbstract:In this article, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub-field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on causality, concept formation and methods. Second, we analyse how much of the discussion of the trade-offs in causal analysis in mainstream political science has percolated into Europeanization studies. We therefore construct a sample of the Europeanization literature, comparing it to a control group of highly cited articles on European integration. This enables us to control if some patterns are specific to the Europeanization literature or reflect a more general trend in European integration. We then look at trade-offs in the Europeanization sample and in the control group. Our findings indicate that awareness of research design is still low. Europeanization articles differ from the control group in the focus on mechanisms (rather than variables) and the qualitative aspects of time in politics. Complex notions of causality prevail in Europeanization but not in the control group and the cause-of-effects approach is preferred to effects-of-causes in the control group but not in Europeanization – in both cases, however, the difference is slight. We conclude by explaining differences and similarities and make proposals for future research.
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Europeanization policy learning and new modes of governance
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2008Co-Authors: Claudio M. RadaelliAbstract:Abstract Can a learning-based mode of governance, specifically the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), facilitate Europeanization? The argument is that, in policy areas where the Treaty base for European Union policy is thin or non-existent or where diverging political views hinder the development of law, modes of governance based on Council's guidelines, the co-ordination of national action plans, peer review of reforms, systematic benchmarking, performance indicators, and governance processes open to the regional-local level and the civil society produce convergence towards the EU goals and ultimately Europeanization without the need to create new EU legislation. By comparing evidence from the most mature OMC processes, this article finds that the relationship between learning, policy change, and Europeanization can break down at several points, and that evidence of learning is limited. This is due to deficiencies in the design of the OMC, the lack of participation, and the political/institutional comple...
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the politics of Europeanization
2003Co-Authors: Kevin Featherstone, Claudio M. RadaelliAbstract:THEORISING Europeanization 1. Introduction: In the name of Europe 2. The Europeanization of public policy 3. Conceptualising the domestic impact of Europe COMPARING INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS 4. Meeting the demands of EU membership: The Europeanization of national administrative systems 5. Variable geometry, multi-level governance: European integration and sub-national government in the new Millenium 6. Europeanization in comparative perspective: Institutional fit and national adaptation EUROPEANISATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS 7. Europeanization as interpretation, trnslation, and editing of public policies 8. Europeanization as Convergence: the regulation of media markets in the European Union 9. The impact of the European Union on environmental policies INTEREST GROUPS AND EUROPEANISATION 10. Europeanization and organisational change in national trade associations 11. Differential Europeanization: large and small firms in the EU policy process UNDERSTANDING 'EUROPE' AS A POLICY MODEL 12. The idea of the European social model: Limits and paradoxes of Europeanisation 13. Europeanisation goes east: power and uncertainty in the EU accession process CONCLUSIONS 14. Conclusions: A conversant research agenda
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whither Europeanization concept stretching and substantive change
2002Co-Authors: Claudio M. RadaelliAbstract:This paper discusses the concept of Europeanization in the light of recent research on the impact of the European Union politics and policy. Conceptual analysis is preliminary to empirical analysis. Accordingly, I examine the risk of "concept stretching", discuss extension and intension of Europeanization, and propose a taxonomy to "unpack" the concept and organize empirical research. The explanation of Europeanization is based on mechanisms and variables that need further exploration, but some preliminary results are presented here. Further research should concentrate on the policy level (and its interaction with macro-structures) and seek cross-fertilization with theoretical policy analysis and international relations, thus avoiding the risk of intellectual segregation.
Tanja A Borzel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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When Europe hits … beyond its borders: Europeanization and the near abroad
Comparative European Politics, 2011Co-Authors: Tanja A BorzelAbstract:With the borders of the European Union (EU) moved eastwards, students of Europeanization have been awarded yet another real-world experiment. This article explores to what extent existing Europeanization approaches travel beyond the EU's border to its South Eastern and Eastern neighbours, which are marked by ‘bad governance’ with regard to both the effectiveness and democratic legitimacy of their domestic institutions. The first part outlines key insights of the literature on ‘Europeanization West’ regarding the outcomes and the mechanism of the domestic impact of the EU. Then, I summarize the main findings of research on ‘Europeanization East’ focusing on factors that have limited or at least qualified the domestic impact of the EU in the 10 Central and Eastern European countries in comparison to the EU 15. This article discusses to what extent the concepts and causal mechanisms need even further qualification when applied to countries, such as the European Neighbourhood Countries, that are neither willing nor necessarily capable of adapting to Europe and that do not even have the incentive of EU membership to cope with the costs. I will argue that the EU is unlikely to deploy any transformative power in its neighbourhood as long as it does not adjust its ‘accession tool box’ to countries the EU does not want to take on as members. The article concludes with some considerations on the policy implications of the EU's approach of ‘move closer but don’t touch’, which has started to creep into its relations with the Western Balkans and Turkey.
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when europe hits beyond its borders Europeanization and the near abroad
Comparative European Politics, 2011Co-Authors: Tanja A BorzelAbstract:With the borders of the European Union (EU) moved eastwards, students of Europeanization have been awarded yet another real-world experiment. This article explores to what extent existing Europeanization approaches travel beyond the EU's border to its South Eastern and Eastern neighbours, which are marked by ‘bad governance’ with regard to both the effectiveness and democratic legitimacy of their domestic institutions. The first part outlines key insights of the literature on ‘Europeanization West’ regarding the outcomes and the mechanism of the domestic impact of the EU. Then, I summarize the main findings of research on ‘Europeanization East’ focusing on factors that have limited or at least qualified the domestic impact of the EU in the 10 Central and Eastern European countries in comparison to the EU 15. This article discusses to what extent the concepts and causal mechanisms need even further qualification when applied to countries, such as the European Neighbourhood Countries, that are neither willing nor necessarily capable of adapting to Europe and that do not even have the incentive of EU membership to cope with the costs. I will argue that the EU is unlikely to deploy any transformative power in its neighbourhood as long as it does not adjust its ‘accession tool box’ to countries the EU does not want to take on as members. The article concludes with some considerations on the policy implications of the EU's approach of ‘move closer but don’t touch’, which has started to creep into its relations with the Western Balkans and Turkey.
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member state responses to Europeanization
Journal of Common Market Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Tanja A BorzelAbstract:Europeanization is a two-way process, which involves the evolution of European institutions that impact on political structures and processes of the Member States. This article develops an approach to link conceptually the two dimensions of Europeanization by focusing on the ways in which Member State governments both shape European policy outcomes and adapt to them. Member States have an incentive to ‘upload’ their policies to the European level to minimize the costs in ‘downloading’ them at the domestic level. But they differ in both their policy preferences and their action capacities. Accordingly, Member States have pursued different strategies in responding to Europeanization. The article draws on evidence from the field of EU environmental policy-making to illustrate when Member States are likely to engage in pace-setting, foot-dragging or fence-sitting. It concludes with some considerations on whether pace-setting, foot-dragging and fence-sitting give rise to interest coalitions, which pitch Member States of diverse levels of economic development against each other.
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pace setting foot dragging and fence sitting member state responses to Europeanization
Journal of Common Market Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Tanja A BorzelAbstract:Europeanization is a two-way process, which involves the evolution of European institutions that impact on political structures and processes of the Member States. This article develops an approach to link conceptually the two dimensions of Europeanization by focusing on the ways in which Member State governments both shape European policy outcomes and adapt to them. Member States have an incentive to ‘upload’ their policies to the European level to minimize the costs in ‘downloading’ them at the domestic level. But they differ in both their policy preferences and their action capacities. Accordingly, Member States have pursued different strategies in responding to Europeanization. The article draws on evidence from the field of EU environmental policy-making to illustrate when Member States are likely to engage in pace-setting, foot-dragging or fence-sitting. It concludes with some considerations on whether pace-setting, foot-dragging and fence-sitting give rise to interest coalitions, which pitch Member States of diverse levels of economic development against each other.
Angelos Chryssogelos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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europeanisation as de politicisation crisis as re politicisation the case of greek foreign policy during the eurozone crisis
Journal of European Integration, 2019Co-Authors: Angelos ChryssogelosAbstract:This article examines the Europeanisation of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis. It proposes a conceptualisation of Europeanisation as de-politicisation and argues that national foreign policy in the EU under crisis has been re-politicised, i.e. it is increasingly contested among electorates while elites are becoming more conscious of the legitimacy deficits created when national policymaking is exercised primarily via EU institutions. In this context, Europeanisation of foreign policy becomes reflexive, i.e. it is subject to more active scrutiny by public opinion while foreign policy making reflects more elites' effort to manage increasingly fractious state-society relations. The article also differentiates between two types of re-politicisation of foreign policy: nationalist and societal politicisation, both of which were evident in Greece during the crisis years. Beyond these concepts, the article highlights more generally the importance of national party politics for foreign policy Europeanisation, a dimension mostly neglected in the literature
