Chapter 25 Europeanization of Domestic Policy

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Chapter 25 Europeanization of Domestic Policy

• Cini (ed.) European Union Politics, 2nd edition
• OUP Online Teaching Resources

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Structure of the Lecture

• Theorising Europeanization
• The Europeanization of State Institutions

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Theorising Europeanization

• Theories on European integration (1st generation)
• The European Community as either
  Intergovernmental or Supranational regime
• Governance turn in EU studies (2nd generation)
• Coincided with a deepening and widening of the
  scope of European integration in the 1990s
• Mainly focusing upon how the EU worked in
  different policy areas

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Theorising Europeanization

• Europeanization (3rd generation)
• How the EU level interacts with its member states

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Europeanization and State Institutions

• The effect of the EU on domestic institutions
• Far-reaching complex
• Substantial variation in impact across the EU
• For national governments
• Achieving goals collectively (by exporting their
  domestic models through Brussels)
• Nesting of the domestic arena inside the EU
  framework

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Europeanization and State Institutions

• For national parliaments
• Losing much of their traditional legislative
  power to the EU
• Playing only an indirect role in the EUs policy
  process
• For national courts
• Acting as an apex of the ECJ by ensuring member
  state conformity with EU law