Research Agendas in EU Studies: Stalking the Elephant (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

447 Pages·2010·1.32 MB·English

by  William E. Paterson

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Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Edited by: Michelle Egan, American University USA; Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK; and William Paterson OBE, University of Aston, UK
Editorial Board: Christopher Hill, Cambridge, UK; Simon Hix, London School of Economics,
UK; Mark Pollack, Temple University, USA; Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Oxford UK; Morten
Egeberg,UniversityofOslo,Norway;AmyVerdun,UniversityofVictoria,Canada;ClaudioM.
Radaelli, University of Exeter, UK; Frank Schimmelfennig, Swiss Federal Institute of
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All topics of significance concerning the nature and operation of the European Union
potentially fall within the scope of the series. The series is multidisciplinary to reflect the
growing importance of the EU as a political, economic and social phenomenon.
Titles include:
Ian Bache and Andrew Jordan (editors)
THE EUROPEANIZATION OF BRITISH POLITICS
Richard Balme and Brian Bridges (editors)
EUROPE–ASIA RELATIONS
Building Multilateralisms
Thierry Balzacq (editor)
THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS
Governance, Neighbours, Security
Michael Baun and Dan Marek (editors)
EU COHESION POLICY AFTER ENLARGEMENT
Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli (editors)
LEADERSHIP IN THE BIG BANGS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Tanja A. Börzel (editor)
COPING WITH ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
New Modes of Environmental Governance
Milena Büchs
NEW GOVERNANCE IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY
The Open Method of Coordination
Michelle Egan, Neill Nugent and William E. Paterson (editors)
RESEARCH AGENDAS IN EU STUDIES
Stalking the Elephant
Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou
THE LIMITS OF EUROPEANIZATION
Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece
Stefan Gänzle and Allen G. Sens (editors)
THE CHANGING POLITICS OF EUROPEAN SECURITY
Europe Alone?
Heather Grabbe
THE EU’S TRANSFORMATIVE POWER
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Eva Gross
THE EUROPEANIZATION OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY
Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management
Hussein Kassim and Handley Stevens
AIR TRANSPORT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Europeanization and its Limits
Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith (editors)
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED NATIONS
Intersecting Multilateralisms
Esra LaGro and Knud Erik Jørgensen (editors)
TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Prospects for a Difficult Encounter
Ingo Linsenmann, Christoph O. Meyer and Wolfgang T. Wessels (editors)
ECONOMIC GOVERNMENT OF THE EU
A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination
Hartmut Mayer and Henri Vogt (editors)
A RESPONSIBLE EUROPE?
Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs
Philomena Murray (editor)
EUROPE AND ASIA
Regions in Flux
Daniel Naurin and Helen Wallace (editors)
UNVEILING THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Games Governments Play in Brussels
David Phinnemore and Alex Warleigh-Lack
REFLECTIONS ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
50 Years of the Treaty of Rome
Sebastiaan Princen
AGENDA-SETTING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Research Agendas
in EU Studies
Stalking the Elephant
Edited by
Michelle Egan
Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of
European Integration
American University, USA
Neill Nugent
Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of
European Integration
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
and
William E. Paterson
Honorary Professor of European and German Politics
Aston University, UK
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix
List of Abbreviations x
Notes on the Contributors xii
Preface xv
1 Introduction: Researching the European Union 1
Michelle Egan, Neill Nugent and William E. Paterson
The ‘explosion’ in European Union studies 1
The focus of the book 3
Themes of the book 4
The contents of the book 7
The European Union and European Union studies 11
2 History Aplenty: But Still Too Isolated 14
N. Piers Ludlow
From ideas to states and institutions and back again? 14
Broad but too uncritical and isolated? 21
So where now? 27
Conclusion 30
3 Integration Theory 37
Frank Schimmelfennig
Introduction 37
Theory development 38
Constructivism 40
Enlargement 45
Future agendas 50
4 The European Union’s Institutions 60
Neill Nugent and William E. Paterson
An overview of the unfolding of the research and
associated literature 60
Conceptually based approaches facilitating
an understanding of EU institutions 62
Taking stock of existing knowledge on the institutions 72
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The impact of enlargement on EU institutions 78
Institutions in the Lisbon Treaty 80
Future perspectives for research 82
5 Leadership and Intergovernmental Negotiations in the
European Union 92
Derek Beach
Introduction 92
The theoretical debate on the importance of leadership 94
The empirical record: leadership during the past
25 years of European integration 104
Directions for future research 112
Conclusions 113
6 Governance and European Integration 117
B. Guy Peters and Susana Borrás
Introduction 117
What is governance? 118
Propositions about European governance 120
Summary and conclusions 129
7 Democracy and European Union Governance 134
Berthold Rittberger
The state of the debate: democratic legitimacy and
EU governance 134
Can and should the EU be democratic? Answers and
trajectories from different models of democracy 136
New research agendas 155
8 European Union Law: A Tale of Microscopes and Telescopes 168
Anthony Arnull
Changing perspectives 169
Changing content 178
Future challenges 179
Conclusion 184
9 New Directions in Europeanization Research 189
Claudio M. Radaelli and Theofanis Exadaktylos
Classic (but implicit) expectations about Europeanization 190
Definitional issues 192
The domains 194
Explanation 197
A look at bibliometric data 199
Conclusions 208
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10 Political Economy 216
Michelle Egan
Introduction 216
Early developments and debates in European
economic integration 218
Impact of integration on national economies 224
Globalization and regionalism 230
From market embeddedness to constitutional
asymmetry 231
Future directions for research 232
Conclusions 239
11 Monetary Union 256
Waltraud Schelkle
EMU as a suboptimal currency area 257
Structural reform 262
Economic governance 265
Conclusion 270
12 Justice and Home Affairs 278
Christina Boswell
State of the art 278
Diagnosis 288
Future directions for research 293
Conclusion 295
13 Feminist Approaches 305
Johanna Kantola
Legislating for equal opportunities 306
Positive action 310
Gender mainstreaming 311
Diversity 313
Gendered changes in the policy-making process 315
Beyond employment: violence 317
Actors for gender equality 318
Conclusion 321
14 The European Union in the World: Future Research Agendas 329
Karen E. Smith
Core questions for research on the EU in the world 330
State of the art 335
Agendas for future research 339
Conclusion 343
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15 Europe and Globalization 354
Wade Jacoby and Sophie Meunier
Globalization and Europe: scope and definition 355
The impact of globalization on Europe 357
The imprint of Europe on globalization 361
Conclusion: globalization and the EU’s legitimacy 366
16 The Future Shape of the European Union 375
Heather Grabbe and Ulrich Sedelmeier
Introduction 375
The State of the art: EU enlargement and EU external
governance 377
Future research challenges on enlargement: how far and
how fast will the EU’s geographical shape change? 383
Future research on the EU’s functional reach: the limits of
external governance through conditionality 389
Conclusion 394
17 Hastening Slowly: European Union Studies – Between
Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation 398
William E. Paterson, Neill Nugent and Michelle Egan
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the EU 399
Theoretical reflections 401
Informal processes and the governance turn 406
Empirical lacunae 408
The overdue turn to domestic politics 409
Contentious politics 412
Towards a balance 414
Index 421
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List of Tables and Figures
Tables
7.1 The EU’s democratic quality from different theoretical
perspectives 151
9.1 Comparison of the Europeanization sample and the
control group of highly cited articles on the politics of
European integration 203
9.2 Scorecard of the Europeanization sample 204
9.3 Comparative analysis of most-cited and most-recent
articles on Europeanization 206
9.4 Policy areas 207
9.5 Country selection as case studies 207
13.1 EU directives on gender equality in employment
since 1992 308
Figures
5.1 Analytical stages of EU intergovernmental politics 95
5.2 The Nash Bargaining Solution and the impact of
institutional positions 96
5.3 The leader as a centripetal force in multiparty
negotiations 101
5.4 Leadership in EU intergovernmental negotiations 103
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