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• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Europeanization of member states: what significance?
• Why Europeanization rather than globalization?
• Explaining the emergence of the Europeanization concept
• Development and (near) consolidation of an approach
• Organization of the book
• Chapter 1 Europeanization: Conceptual Developments and a Framework for Analysis
• What is the meaning of ‘member state’?
• The direction of influence: ‘top-down’
• Dimensions of domestic change: where does the EU affect its member states?
• Polity (institutions)
• Policy
• Mechanisms of domestic change: how does the EU impact its member states?
• Outcome of domestic change: what is the extent of change?
• Europeanization and the post-communist experience
• A methodological consideration
• Chapter 2 National Executives
• EU decision-making and national executives
• A privileged position?
• From pressures of membership to misfit
• National coordination of EU affairs
• Institutional adjustment to EU policy output
• Strengthening of the national executive vis-à-vis national legislatures
• The national executive in the post-communist context
• Conclusion: explaining national variation in executive change
• Chapter 3 National Parliaments
• National parliaments: ‘losers’ in the integration process?
• Role and responsibilities of national parliaments in EU affairs
• Institutional change: multiple causes?
• European Union influence on post-communist parliaments
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Centre–Regional Relations
• The changing nature of territorial relations in Western Europe
• National and regional interests in EU policy-making
• Compound states
• Simple states
• Regional developments in post-communist member states
• Mechanisms of change in central–regional relations
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5 National Courts
• Legal integration and mechanisms of change: the development of the ECJ
• New roles for national courts
• The post-communist experience
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Political Parties
• Parties, politics and the EU
• Europeanization and domestic politics
• Europeanization and political parties
• Europeanization and parties in post-communistmember states
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7 Interest Groups and Social Movements
• How does the EU affect interest group behaviour?
• How does the EU affect social movements?
• How do interest groups and social movements respond to EU policy outputs?
• Europeanization and post-communist interest groups and social movements
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8 National Policy
• EU policy and national policy-making systems
• Types of EU policy influence on member states: ‘hard’ and ‘soft’
• The domestic impact of ‘hard’ EU policies
• The domestic impact of ‘soft’ policies
• Post-communist experience of policy change: adaptation or transformation?
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9 Foreign Policy
• Developing a European foreign policy?
• Europeanization and national foreign policy: dimensions and mechanisms
• Europeanization and foreign policy change: methodological issues
• Europeanization and foreign policy change: is there a singular post-communist dimension?
• Conclusion
• Chapter 10 Conclusion
• Relations between member states and Brussels
• Europeanization and national state transformation
• Europeanization as a normative concern
• Concluding remarks
• Bibliography
• Index