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A quantitative analysis of legal integration and differentiation in the European Union, 1958–2020
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Journal of common market studies, 2023, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 1337-1359
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CHIOCCHETTI, Paolo, A quantitative analysis of legal integration and differentiation in the European Union, 1958–2020, Journal of common market studies, 2023, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 1337-1359 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75375
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The article provides an innovative, comprehensive quantitative analysis of legal integration and differentiation in the European Union (EU) from 1958 to 2020. Building on a streamlined analytical framework and new or revised datasets on EU primary, EU secondary and EU-related international law, it challenges or qualifies several aspects of the received wisdom on European integration. Specifically, it delivers the first-ever quantitative estimate of integration in terms of integration opportunities, shows that differentiation is deployed in a reluctant and eclectic manner and offers clear measurements for the prevalence of various modes of temporal, spatial and policy differentiation. These methodological and empirical findings confirm the fruitfulness of the quantitative approach to the study of European integration and point to promising avenues for future research on international integration and comparative regionalism.
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Published online: 27 February 2023
Based on the dataset: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75313
Based on the dataset: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75313
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The research leading to this paper was conducted within the framework of the ‘Integrating Diversity in the European Union’ (InDivEU) research project. The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 822304. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection or analysis. Many thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and to Mhairi Gador-Whyte for proofreading the article.
This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Wiley Transformative Agreement (2020-2023)
This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Wiley Transformative Agreement (2020-2023)