Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the effects of Europeanization on the EU member states. The various chapters, based on cutting-edge research, examine the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity, and citizenship norms. The European Union, the authors find, does indeed make a difference―even in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. In many cases EU rules and regulations incompatible with domestic institutions have created pressure for national governments to adapt. This volume examines the conditions under which this "adaptational pressure" has led to institutional change in the member states. Cover TRANSFORMING EUROPE Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Preface 1. Europeanization and Domestic Change: Introduction Part 1 Domestic Structures 2. The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policy and Domestic Structural Change 3. Differential Europe: National Administrative Responses to Community Policy 4. Institutional Reform in Telecommunications: The European Union in Transnational Policy Diffusion 5. Italy Pays for Europe: Political Leadership, Political Choice, and Institutional Adaptation Part 2 System-Wide Domestic Structures 6. Europeanization and the Courts: Variable Patterns of Adaptation among National Judiciaries 7. Adjusting to EU Environmental Policy: Change and Persistence of Domestic Administrations 8. Europeanization and Territorial Institutional Change: Toward Cooperative Regionalism? 9. The Transatlantic Business Dialogue and Domestic Business-Government Relations 10. The Europeanization of Citizenship? 11. A European Identity? Europeanization and the Evolution of Nation-State Identities 12. Transforming Europe: Conclusions References Contributors Index Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? This study traces the effects of Europeanization and the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity and citizenship norms. The European Union, the authors find, does indeed make a difference - even in Germany, France and the UK. In many cases, EU rules and regulations incompatible with domestic institutions have created pressure for national governments to adapt. This volume examines the conditions under which this "adaptational pressure" has led to institutional change in the member states Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. __Transforming Europe__ traces the effects of Europeanization on the EU member states. The various chapters, based on cutting-edge research, examine the impact of the EU on national court systems, territorial politics, societal networks, public discourse, identity, and citizenship norms. This volume explores the impact of Europeanization-which we define as the emergence and the development at the European level of distinct structures of governance-on the domestic structures of the member states. Edited By Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, And Thomas Risse. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239-261) And Index.