Is globalization and European integration transforming the basic structure of politics in European nations? Is it eroding basic institutions like national sovereignty, citizenship, social security, and democracy? Is the European Union (EU) a new kind of political institution, differing from a traditional national state? The essays in this volume find that European integration and internationalization has transformed political institutions and styles of governing. However, they argue as well that the U.S. offers important insights into the way EU politics and institutions work.
Author(s): Christopher K. Ansell, Giuseppe Di Palma
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 316
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Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS......Page 18
1 Restructuring Authority and Territoriality......Page 20
THE CONTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS......Page 26
2 Old and New Peripheries in the Processes of European Territorial Integration......Page 36
HISTORICAL FORMATION OF PERIPHERY WITHIN NATION-STATES......Page 37
Changing Operational Scale of Infrastructural Power?......Page 42
Territorial Competition?......Page 44
Politico-Institutional Differentiation?......Page 48
Functional and Territorial Representation......Page 51
Variation in Territorial Resources......Page 55
CONCLUSION......Page 57
3 Center–Periphery Alignments and Political Contention in Late-Modern Europe......Page 62
MULTILEVEL CONFLICT AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS......Page 64
Multilevel Governance......Page 66
COMPOSITE STATES IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE......Page 67
Elite Consolidation and Its Victims......Page 70
National–Local Alignments......Page 72
Supranational–Local Alignments......Page 73
Transnational Alliance Building......Page 75
Sectoralization of Territorial Claims......Page 77
CONTENTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT......Page 79
PART II THE TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNANCE......Page 82
4 Sovereignty and Territory in the European Union......Page 84
Authority......Page 87
Sovereignty......Page 88
Territoriality......Page 89
Summary......Page 90
Parliamentary Sovereignty......Page 91
Background Changes......Page 92
The Factortame Case......Page 94
The Equal Opportunities Commission Case......Page 99
CONCLUSION......Page 103
5 Social Citizenship in the European Union......Page 107
BOUNDED STRUCTURING: ROKKAN’S PERSPECTIVE......Page 108
THE STRUCTURING OF SOCIAL SHARING: FROM LOCAL ASSISTANCE TO NATIONAL WELFARE......Page 112
NATIONAL CLOSURE UNDER CHALLENGE: ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS PRESSURES......Page 119
Crossborder Mobility in Health Care......Page 124
Social Assistance and the Residence Issue......Page 126
Compulsory Membership and Public Monopolies Contested......Page 127
SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: NEW BOUNDARIES, NEW STRUCTURING?......Page 129
6 Islands of Transnational Governance......Page 139
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 140
Problem 1: Cooperation and Commitment......Page 141
Problem 2: Transaction Costs......Page 142
Problem 3: Institutional Choice and Governance......Page 144
The Medieval Law Merchant......Page 145
The Westphalian State......Page 147
The New Lex Mercatoria......Page 150
CONCLUSION......Page 161
7 Regional Integration and Left Parties in Europe and North America......Page 162
FACTOR INCOME EFFECTS......Page 163
FACTOR MOBILITY EFFECTS......Page 167
REGIME EFFECTS......Page 168
EVIDENCE......Page 172
CONCLUSION......Page 175
PART III EUROPE–U.S. COMPARISONS......Page 178
8 The European Union in American Perspective......Page 180
THE EUROPEAN PROCESS OF TERRITORIAL BUNDLING......Page 182
THE AMERICAN TRAJECTORY TOWARD SOVEREIGNTY......Page 186
TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN AMERICA......Page 189
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AMERICA AND IN EUROPE......Page 192
TERRITORIAL AND PARTISAN CLEAVAGES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA......Page 196
FROM WASHINGTON TO BRUSSELS......Page 199
CONCLUSION......Page 202
9 Is the Democratic Deficit a Deficiency?......Page 205
THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT AND EU IMMIGRATION......Page 207
THE BIASES OF THE U.S. DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURE......Page 212
VENUE SHOPPING, INSTITUTIONAL REFORM, AND DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS......Page 216
10 Territory, Representation, and Policy Outcome......Page 222
INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING RULES......Page 225
TERRITORY AND ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION......Page 226
REGULATORY POLICY AND TERRITORY......Page 227
CONGRESSIONAL VETO PLAYERS, TERRITORY, AND ECONOMIC SECTORS......Page 228
THE TERRITORIAL DIMENSION......Page 230
VETO PLAYERS, TERRITORY, AND THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS......Page 234
CONGRESS AND THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS COMPARED......Page 236
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS......Page 238
PART IV CONCLUDING THOUGHTS......Page 240
11 Territoriality, Authority, and Democracy......Page 242
THE TERRITORIAL STATE......Page 243
STATES AND COMPETENCES......Page 245
FEDERALISM AND CONFEDERALISM......Page 247
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: INSTITUTIONAL HYBRIDITY AND ACCOMMODATION......Page 251
INTERESTS AND IDENTITIES......Page 253
CONCLUDING COMMENT......Page 261
12 Postscript......Page 263
THE INEFFICIENCIES OF HISTORY......Page 264
IDEAS AS PRACTICED IDENTITIES......Page 270
DEMOCRACY BEYOND THE STATE......Page 277
CONCLUSIONS......Page 285
Reference List......Page 288
Index......Page 314
