Format:
1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN:
9781137285010
Series Statement:
The European Union Series
Content:
This innovative new text provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the study of European integration, focusing centrally on explaining the differentiated character of the European Union in terms of policy areas, institutional development and geographical span.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration -- Between International Organization and State -- Membership -- Delimitation -- Authority -- Governance capacity -- Legitimacy -- Differentiated Integration -- Measuring Differentiated Integration -- Mapping Differentiated Integration -- Differentiation: A Persistent Feature of European Integration -- PART I: THEORY -- 2 Intergovernmentalism -- From Realist to Liberal Intergovernmentalism -- Rationalist Institutionalism -- General assumptions: international interdependence and rational choice -- Explanatory theories: the functional theory of institutions, endogenous trade theory, bargaining theory, and club theory -- Intergovernmentalism and European Integration -- National preferences -- Interstate bargaining -- Institutional choice -- General hypotheses -- Intergovernmentalism and Differentiated Integration -- Realist intergovernmentalism: autonomy-driven differentiated integration -- Liberal intergovernmentalism: interest divergence and externalities of differentiation -- Conjectures -- Conjecture 1 -- Conjecture 2 -- 3 Supranationalism -- From Neofunctionalism to Supranationalism -- Historical Institutionalism -- General assumptions: rational actors in a path-dependent process of institutionalization -- Explanatory theories of integrative dynamics -- Supranationalism and European Integration -- Spillover -- Institutionalization and path dependence in European integration -- General hypotheses -- Supranationalism and Differentiated Integration -- Intensity of transnational exchange -- Capacity and preferences of supranational actors -- Conjectures -- Conjecture 1 -- Conjecture 2 -- Chapter 4 -- 4 Constructivism -- A New Emphasis on Ideas -- Sociological Institutionalism.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230246447
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780230246447
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4763885
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