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Research Methods in European Union Studies Editedby Kennet Lynggaard Ian Manners Karl Löfgren PalgraveStudiesinEuropeanUnionPolitics Edited by: Michelle Egan, American University USA, Neill Nugent, Emeritus Professsor, Manchester MetropolitanUniversity,UKandWilliamPatersonOBE,UniversityofAston,UK. EditorialBoard:ChristopherHill,Cambridge,UK,SimonHix,LondonSchoolofEconomics,UK,Mark Pollack,TempleUniversity,USA,KalypsoNicolaïdis,OxfordUK,MortenEgeberg,UniversityofOslo, Norway,AmyVerdun,UniversityofVictoria,Canada,ClaudioM.Radaelli,UniversityofExeter,UK, FrankSchimmelfennig,SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology,Switzerland FollowingonthesustainedsuccessoftheacclaimedEuropeanUnionSeries,whichessentiallypublishes research-basedtextbooks,PalgraveStudiesinEuropeanUnionPoliticspublishescuttingedgeresearch-driven monographs. Theremitoftheseriesisbroadlydefined,bothintermsofsubjectandacademicdiscipline.Alltopicsof significanceconcerningthenatureandoperationoftheEuropeanUnionpotentiallyfallwithinthescope oftheseries.TheseriesismultidisciplinarytoreflectthegrowingimportanceoftheEUasapolitical, economicandsocialphenomenon. Titlesinclude: CarolynBan MANAGEMENTANDCULTUREINANENLARGEDEUROPEANCOMMISSION FromDiversitytoUnity? GijsJanBrandsma CONTROLLINGCOMITOLOGY AccountabilityinaMulti-LevelSystem EdoardoBressanelli EUROPARTIESAFTERENLARGEMENT Organization,IdeologyandCompetition RamonaComan,ThomasKosteraandLucaTomini(editors) EUROPEANIZATIONANDEUROPEANINTEGRATION FromIncrementaltoStructuralChange VéroniqueDimier THEINVENTIONOFAEUROPEANDEVELOPMENTAIDBUREAUCRACY RecyclingEmpire HeleneDyrhauge EURAILWAYPOLICY-MAKING OnTrack? TheofanisExadaktylosandClaudioM.Radaelli(editors) RESEARCHDESIGNINEUROPEANSTUDIES EstablishingCausalityinEuropeanization JackHaywardandRüdigerWurzel(editors) EUROPEANDISUNION BetweenSovereigntyandSolidarity WolframKaiserandJan-HenrikMeyer(editors) SOCIETALACTORSINEUROPEANINTEGRATION ChristianKaunertandSarahLeonard(editors) EUROPEANSECURITY,TERRORISMANDINTELLIGENCE TacklingNewSecurityChallengesinEurope ChristianKaunertandKamilZwolski TheEUASAGLOBALSECURITYACTOR AComprehensiveAnalysisbeyondCFSPandJHA MarinaKolb THEEUROPEANUNIONANDTHECOUNCILOFEUROPE FinnLaursen(editor) DESIGNINGTHEEUROPEANUNION FromParistoLisbon KennetLynggaard,IanMannersandKarlLöfgren(editors) RESEARCHMETHODSINEUROPEANUNIONSTUDIES DimitrisPapadimitriouandPaulCopeland(editors) THEEU’sLISBONSTRATEGY EvaluatingSuccess,UnderstandingFailure DavidPhinnemore THETREATYOFLISBON OriginsandNegotiation ClaudiaSternberg THESTRUGGLEFOREULEGITIMACY PublicContestation,1950–2005 YvesTiberghien(editor) LEADERSHIPINGLOBALINSTITUTIONBUILDING Minerva’sRule LiubomirK.Topaloff POLITICALPARTIESANDEUROSCEPTICISM AmyVerdunandAlfredTovias(editors) MAPPINGEUROPEANECONOMICINEGRATION RichardG.WhitmanandStefanWolff(editors) THEEUROPEANNEIGHBOURHOODPOLICYINPERSPECTIVE Context,ImplementationandImpact SarahWolff THEMEDITERRANEANDIMENSIONOFTHEEUROPEANUNION’SINTERNALSECURITY JanWouters,HansBruyninckx,SudeshnaBasuandSimonSchunz(editors) THEEUROPEANUNIONANDMULTILATERALGOVERNANCE AssessingEUParticipationinUnitedNationsHumanRightsandEnvironmentalFora OzgeZihnioglu EUROPEANUNIONCIVILSOCIETYPOLICYANDTURKEY ABridgeTooFar? 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JN30.R4692015 341.242(cid:2)20721—dc23 2014036774 Contents ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes vii NotesonContributors viii Part I Overview 1 CrossroadsinEuropeanUnionStudies 3 KennetLynggaard,KarlLöfgrenandIanManners 2 MethodologyinEuropeanUnionStudies 18 BenRosamond 3 EuropeanUnionHistory 37 Ann-ChristinaL.Knudsen Part II Micro-Analysis 4 EuropeanIdentity:ConflictandCooperation 55 AngelaBourne 5 PeopleandSocialGroupsintheEuropeanUnion 72 MichaelStrange 6 SinglePolicyStudy:ThreeVariationsinDesign 86 AnnicaKronsellandIanManners 7 AnalysingEuropeanDiscourses 102 AmandineCrespy Part III Meso-Analysis 8 StudyingAgendaSetting 123 SebastiaanPrincen 9 StudiesofBargainingintheEuropeanUnion 136 SaraHagemann 10 ImplementationStudies:BeyondaLegalisticApproach 154 KarlLöfgren 11 AnalysingNetworks 168 JennyM.LewisandSevastiChatzopoulou v vi Contents 12 VisualPrimesandEuropeanUnionIdentity:Designing ExperimentalResearch 184 LauraCramandStratosPatrikios 13 Europeanisation 206 TheofanisExadaktylosandClaudioM.Radaelli Part IV Macro-Analysis 14 TheEuropeanUnioninGlobalPolitics:NormativePowerand LongitudinalInterpretation 221 IanManners 15 TheBlurredBoundariesandMultipleEffectsofEuropean IntegrationandGlobalisation 237 KennetLynggaard 16 HardandSoftGovernance 252 MartinoMaggetti 17 PoliticalPartiesandtheEuropeanUnion 266 MagnusBlomgren 18 StudyingEuropeanUnionAttitudeFormationUsing Experiments 281 JulieHassingNielsen 19 EuropeanUnionStudiesandtheNewRegionalism 297 AlexWarleigh-Lack 20 ResearchStrategiesinEuropeanUnionStudies:Beyond Dichotomies 309 IanManners,KennetLynggaardandKarlLöfgren Index 322 Tables, Figures and Boxes Tables 9.1 ExamplesofexistingresearchonbargainingintheEU usingqualitative,quantitativeandformalmethods 140 10.1 Factorsaffectingcompliance,basedonToshkov,2010 159 11.1 Classificationofnetworktypes 170 11.2 Greekagriculturalpolicynetworkin-degreeand betweennesscentralityscores 180 12.1 Functionalimage,EUattachmentandinstrumental responses 195 18.1 Natural,field,surveyandlaboratoryexperiments:Setting, treatmentsandcontrol 288 18.2 MeandonationofTrustGameforT ,T andT 290 1 2 3 19.1 Benefitsofengagementwithnewregionalismstudies 299 19.2 The‘region-ness’continuum 303 19.3 EUstudies:Somehelpfromnewregionalism 305 Figures 2.1 Theevolutionoftheoreticalworkinthepoliticalscienceof theEU 24 11.1 CAPdecision-makingnetwork,after2009 177 11.2 TheGreekagriculturalpolicynetworkshowingstrengthof ties 179 12.1 Designofexperiment 195 12.2 Theimpactofthefunctionalcueoninstrumentalresponses byEUattachment(Scottishsample) 196 12.3 Theimpactofthefunctionalcueoninstrumentalresponses byEUattachment(Welshsample) 197 12.A1 Symboliccue:EUtreatment(symbolpresent) 199 12.A2 Symboliccue:Control(symbolabsent) 199 12.A3 Functionalcue:EUtreatment(symbolpresent) 200 12.A4 Functionalcue:Control(symbolabsent) 200 13.1 Usingtheclassicmodeltoexplaintherelationshipbetween Europeanisationandintegration 210 Boxes 7.1 Maintasksintheconductofdiscourse/contentanalysis 110 13.1 MechanismsofEuropeanisation 213 vii Contributors Magnus Blomgren is Associate Professor in Political Science at Umeå Uni- versity,Sweden.Hisresearchinterestrelatestovariousaspectsofdemocracy, moreparticularly,theeffectoftheEuropeanintegrationonnationalpolitical systems.Thisinvolvesthedevelopmentofpoliticalparties,parliamentarism andlegislativerepresentation.Hehasrecentlyco-editedParliamentaryRoles in Modern Legislatures (2012) and co-authored Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities(2013). AngelaBourneisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofSocietyandGlob- alization at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her current research interests include democratic responses to political extremism in Europe, including processes, justifications and consequences of banning political parties. Her previousresearchexaminedtherelationshipbetweenEUpoliticsanddevo- lutioninmemberstates,particularlyinSpainandtheBasqueCountry.Her publications include The European Union and the Accommodation of Basque Difference in Spain (2008) and two edited collections, The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States: Conflict or Co-operation? (2004) and European Union Studies (with M. Cini, 2006). She has also published in the Jour- nal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Comparative Law; Democratization; Regional and Federal Studies; Perspectives on European Politics and Society; and InternationalJournalofIberianStudies. SevastiChatzopoulouisAssociateProfessorinEUPoliticsandPoliciesatthe DepartmentofSocietyandGlobalisation,RoskildeUniversity,Denmark.Her researchinterestsfocusontheEuropeanisationofnationalpublicadminis- trationsandregulatorypoliciesandtheroleoftheEUasaregulatoryglobal actor,especiallyinrelationtotheUS.ShehadpublishedintheInternational Journal of Public Administration and Perspectives on European Politics and Soci- ety. Currently she is working on a monograph on the Europeanisation of nationaladministrations. LauraCramisProfessorofEuropeanPoliticsattheUniversityofEdinburgh, UK. Her research tackles key questions about the changing parameters of European integration such as how EU policies and institutions impact on publicengagementwiththeEU,andhowdailyremindersofEUmembership conditionpublicattitudestotheEUandEUpolicyprocess.Herspecialities includeEUidentityandtheneuropoliticsofidentity,physiology,EUsocial policy,theEuropeanCommission,civilsocietyintheEUandtheimpactof theEUtreatiesonScotland.HerarticleshavebeenpublishedintheJournal viii NotesonContributors ix of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance and NationsandNationalism. AmandineCrespyisAssistantProfessorinPoliticalScienceandEUStudies attheUniversitéLibredeBruxelles(ULB;Centred’étudedelaviepolitique- InstituteforEuropeanStudies),Belgium.SheholdsaPhDfromtheULBand wasavisitingfellowattheFreieUniversitätBerlin,SciencesPoinParisand HarvardUniversity.Herresearchmainlydealswithpoliticalconflictsrelated totheeconomicandsocialdimensionofEUintegration.Shehasconducted researchonEuroscepticismandresistancestoEUintegration,publicservices liberalisation and regulation, the politics of the Eurocrisis and the role of conflictanddiscourseinEuropeandemocracy.SheistheauthorofQuiapeur deBolkestein?Conflit,résistancesetdémocratiedansl’Unioneuropéenne(2012), and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, JournalofEuropeanPublicPolicyandPoliticalStudies. Theofanis Exadaktylos is Lecturer in European Politics at the School of Politics, University of Surrey, UK. His research interests revolve around the Europeanisation of the national foreign policies of the EU member-states with particular focus on Greece and Germany, issues of real and nominal convergenceintheleastaffluentcountriesoftheunion,thepoliticalecon- omy of transition and enlargement, policy implementation and political trust,andthecurrentEurozonecrisisfromtheperspectiveoftheriseinpop- ulism. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies. Heistheco-editor(with.C.Radaelli)ofResearchDesigninEuropeanStudies: EstablishingCausalityinEuropeanization(2012). Sara Hagemann is Lecturer in EU Politics at the London School of Eco- nomicsandPoliticalScience,UK,whereshejoinedtheEuropeanInstitutein September2009.HerresearchinterestsincludeEUpoliticsandgovernance, EU treaty reforms and enlargements, and transparency and accountabil- ity in representative democracies. She has published in European Union Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies and Journal of European Public Policy. Ann-ChristinaL.KnudsenisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofCul- ture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests are concerned with the history of European integration, the development of transnationalpoliticalelitesandtheCommonAgriculturalPolicy.Herpub- lications include Living Political Biography: Narrating 20th Century European Lives (with K. Gram-Skjoldager, 2012), Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (2009) and articles in the Journal of EuropeanIntegrationHistoryandCultures&Conflicts.
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