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Browsing SPS Articles by Subject "European Union"
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Title:Migration and citizenship attribution: politics and policies in Western Europe
Author(s):HONOHAN, Iseult; KOSTAKOPOULOU, Dora; BAUBOCK, Rainer; VINK, Maarten; GROOT, Gerard-Rene de; HOWARD, Marc Morje; GOODMAN, Sara Wallace; ERSANILLI, Evelyn; KOOPMANS, Ruud; HELBLING, MarcDate:2010Type of Publication:Article
Title:A la carte: Ukrainian positions on free trade with the EU
Author(s):LANGBEIN, JuliaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ukraine is negotiating with the EU on a comprehensive free-trade agreement. The east European country is to adopt the regulations of the EU internal market; in exchange, trade barriers such as tariffs will be dismantled. ...
Title:Does cross-border cooperation empower European regions? The case of INTERREG III-A France - Spain
Author(s):HARGUINDEGUY, Jean-Baptiste; BRAY, ZoeDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we investigate the impact of the implementation of EU programmes on substate actors, and more specifically regional ones. We focus on the case of the INTERREG crossborder initiative in France and Spain between ...
Title:European polity: layers of legitimacy
Author(s):TAMVAKI, Dionysia D.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Transferring the legitimacy or illegitimacy debate away from national discourse to the supranational agenda of the European Union (EU) requires a theoretical re-invention of legitimacy so that it meets the normative standards ...
Title:Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Author(s):KOUSIS, Maria; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; JIMENEZ, ManuelDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the ...
Title:Contested competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
Title:Challenging the Commission's right of initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability
Author(s):RASMUSSEN, AnneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the conditions under which informal institutional change between EU Treaties becomes formalised in subsequent Treaties. Recent developments in institutional theory show how formal rule changes often ...
Title:Evaluating the forces of interstitial institutional change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Forum: rethinking the rules
Author(s):SøRENSEN, Georg; LANG, Jr., Anthony; RENGGER, Nicholas; WALKER, William; KLABBERS, Jan; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich; BROWN, Chris; AGUILAR, Mario I.; SCHICK, Kate; IMBER, Mark; THIRKELL-WHITE, Ben; LAMPEL, Joseph; ALDRICH, Richard J.; GROVE, Eric; DANCHEV, Alex; SHEFFIELD, Gary; CRANG, Jeremy A.; FREEDMAN, LawrenceDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:European integration and the potential for Mercosur integration
Author(s):MALAMUD, Andres; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:La experiencia de integración regional de la Unión Europea (UE) ha sido la más exitosa entre todos los intentos realizados en este sentido. Es, pues, la que más probablemente pueda brindar enseñanzas para aquellas regiones ...
Title:Predispositions to discriminatory immigration policies in western Europe: an exploration of political causes
Author(s):MARTINEZ-HERRERA, Enric; MOUALHI, DjaouidaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We analyze citizens' predispositions concerning policies of immigrant selection and models of immigrant accommodation as observed by the 2002-3 European Social Survey. We focus on some of the EU's major countries, namely: ...
Title:Europeanising Southern Europe
Author(s):BOTETZAGIAS, Iosif; ANDRETTA, Massimiliano; CAIANI, Manuela; BAUDNER, Joerg; BULL, Martin J.; BOLGHERINI, Silvia; CASULA, Clementina; DOBRE, Ana Maria; SEPOS, Angelos; KULAHCI, ErolDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:Ernst B. Haas and the Legacy of Neofunctionalism
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Europe, the scholarly reputation of Ernst B. Haas is inseparably linked to the vicissitudes of something called 'neofunctionalism'. It is as the founding father of a distinct approach to explaining the dynamics of ...
Title:The experience of European integration and potential for Northeast Asian integration
Author(s):KIM, Sunhyuk; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reflects on the experience of European integration in light of the ongoing process of regional integration in the Northeast Asian region. Based on the existing theories, the article summarizes twelve lessons ...