Does the EU<i>cause</i>domestic developments? improving case selection in Europeanisation research

Haverland, Markus

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“…One of the challenges in this literature is to define and conceptualize proper dependent and independent variables (Saurugger 2005;Haverland 2006). We conceptualize 'Europe' as a bundle of variables, some more economic, other more political or bureaucratic, some referring to causes of which effects are only visible after a long period (e.g.…”

Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is what Goetz calls linkage-adaptation: as domestic political systems (governments, parliaments…) become more and more embedded in European policy-making, they are expected to adapt their domestic policy-making modes (Goetz 2000). The causal importance of the EU with regard to direct Europeanization is relatively easy to track down; sometimes it is even trivial, for instance, when ministries establish departmental units in order to coordinate EU affairs (Haverland 2006). Second, many studies on the impact of European integration on countries emphasize the process of market creation and the enlarging scale of economic interactions.…”

Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These impacts can be labeled as indirect Europeanization (Sciarini, Fischer et al 2004). A problem with this form of adaptation is that it is rather difficult to demonstrate direct causation, not the least because of overlapping processes of growing economic linkages at the European and global level (Haverland 2006). …”

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How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

Beyers

Bursens

2013

Regional & Federal Studies

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Abstract. European integration triggers contrasting views from Belgian political elites. Proponents of confederalism, further decentralization and separatism point to the decreasing importance of the central government level within a more integrated Europe as well as to the growing relevance of regions within contemporary Europe. Opponents of separatism generally favor a strong central government arguing that Europe will not easily accept separatism and that further decentralization may substantially weaken the European position of Belgium and its regions. This paper aims to clarify the European factor in the 'Belgian Question'. Our argument consists of two parts. First, we discuss the political-administrative consequences of the institutional interpenetration of the Belgian federation within the EU polity. Second, we explore how European economic integration impacts upon politics within the Belgian federation. Our main conclusion is that both aspects of European integration entail a differentiated outcome; while the first triggers cooperation, the second stimulates ongoing decentralization pressures. 3 The Europeanization of the Belgian FederationOver the past decades, the Belgian state has been subject to two different evolutions:while the process of European integration has pooled a large number of competences at the European level, the consecutive reforms of the Belgian state have created sub-national units with a substantial portfolio of policy competences. The combination of these two parallel evolutions has resulted in a system of multilevel governance (MLG) which satisfies two separate considerations: coping with heterogeneity within Belgium while at the same time reaping the economic benefits of a large European market. This paper deals with the relation between European integration and federalization: we address the questions whether and how European integration has an impact on the internal political dynamics of the Belgian federation. We aim to clarify the nature of the European impact by unpacking the effects of Europe into different and, as we will argue, also contrasting processes.European integration does not occupy a prominent place in Belgian political debates on the organization of the Belgian federal state (Deforche 2012). However, despite the fact that political parties hardly use 'European' arguments when discussing state reforms, we can discern two contrasting views regarding the relation between the regional and the European level. On the one hand, proponents of confederalism and separatism point to the decreasing importance of the federal level and to a growing relevance and viability of regional jurisdictions within a more integrated Europe. It is argued that regional autonomy should increase in order to cope more efficiently with the impact of European integration and One of our goals is to disentangle the impact of various dimensions of European integration on different aspects of the Belgian polity. We will develop two -seemingly contradicting -propositions:1. Some effects of Europea...

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Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

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Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

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Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

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2013

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“…This approach has been labeled congruence analysis Blume 2008a and2008b;George and Bennett 2005, see also Haverland, 2006Haverland, , 2007. 4 It is quite a common approach in International Relations, where the problem of 'n=1' is notorious and where scientific progress develops to some extent along 'great theoretical debates', e.g.…”

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If Similarity is the Challenge – Congruence Analysis Should be Part of the Answer

Haverland

2010

Eur Polit Sci

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This contribution to the debate on the challenges to comparative politics largely focuses on the issue of differences versus similarities, the issue that has been raised by both authors: Caramani and Van Kersbergen. I share their concern that too much research focuses on differences between countries and I also join them in locating the sources of this bias in methodological considerations. I do not agree however with some of Caramani's points, in particular his fundamental claim that explanation necessarily demands variations across cases; a claim that seems also to be made at least implicitly by Van Kersbergen. I argue that the validity of an explanation rather depends on the degree to which empirical evidence is congruent with observable implications of this explanation and is not congruent with implications of rival explanations. It is irrelevant whether these theoretical expectations concern differences or similarities between countries. I therefore advocate a theory-driven rather than a case-driven analysis of national political systems in order to meet the challenge to explain similarities between them.

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“…If it is possible to attribute the cause of the outcome to a factor exogenous to European integration, could we argue that it is European integration that is causing the outcome? Establishing causality (Dunning 2008), improving case study analysis (Haverland 2006, Gerring & McDermott 2007, the significance of process tracing (Gerring 2007, 172-185), or counterfactual reasoning (Gerring & McDermott 2007, 172-185) are analytical problems to be borne in mind and are further considered in chapter 15.…”

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The Europeanization of European Politics

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Does the EUcausedomestic developments? improving case selection in Europeanisation research

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How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

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