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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components

Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being … based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which … identities are compatible. This is, in part, because while national identities are largely "cultural", European identities are …

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Issue Salience and the Domestic Legitimacy Demands of European Integration. The Cases of Britain and Germany

Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that governments face when they devise their European policies. The higher the salience of these issues, the more restrictive will be the legitimacy demands that governments have to...

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Does supranational coordination erode its national basis? The case of European labour market policy and German industrial relations

Niechoj, Torsten - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

During recent decades improved supply chain management, innovation in information technology, new financial instruments, etc. have changed the economic environment for production in the EU significantly. This led to and was accompanied by increased coordination of economic policy and the use of...

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How Europe Matters. Different Mechanisms of Europeanization

Knill, Christoph; Lehmkuhl, Dirk - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 06

While much has been written about the European Union (EU), most of the scholarly work is concerned with the developments at the European level. It is only recently, that we observe increasing attempts to address this research deficit. Notwithstanding a growing number of studies explicitly...

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Change as "Appropriate Adaptation": Administrative Adjustment to European Environmental Policy in Britain and Germany

Knill, Christoph; Lenschow, Andrea - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 04

This paper is looking at European environmental policy from the "second image reversed" perspective. Specifically, it investigates the conditions under which we see administrative change in the EU member states as a consequence of the implementation of EU environmental policies. We adopt a...

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Shifting paradigms: Reflecting Germanys European policy

Knodt, Michèle; Staeck, Nicola - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 03

Germany's presidency of the European Council in the first half of 1999 has focused the attention of schlolars on Germany's attitude towards the EU. Germany's European policy has been guided from the beginning by a pro-European vision of 'the house of Europe'. The hypothesis of the article is...

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An Alternative Route of Legal Integration: The Community's Railways Policy

Knill, Christoph; Lehmkuhl, Dirk - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 05

The process of European integration and policy-making is sometimes rather puzzling. On the one hand, it is well documented that with respect to the implementation of European legislation member states tend to do less than they are supposed to do. On the other hand, it is striking that with...

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Synergies and Tradeoffs in International Cooperation: Broadening, Widening, and Deepening

Friedrichs, Jörg; Mihov, Jordan; Popova, Maria - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 10

International cooperation rests on state preferences with regard to the substantive scope, geographical range, and institutional depth of issue-specific devices to over-come collective action problems. Substantive broadening, geographical widening, and institutional deepening are the elixir of...

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The Role of Public Discourse in European Social Democratic Reform Projects

Schmidt, Vivian A. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 06

Public discourse, understood both as ideas about public action and interactive processes that serve to 'coordinate' the construction of those ideas and to 'communicate' them to the public, has been central to the success (or failure) of the reform projects of social democratic parties. Certain...

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Explaining Variations in Implementation of EU Directives

Versluis, Esther - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 11

Uneven implementation of Community law across the European Union is common practice. Differences in implementation of EU directives differences in degree of domestic adjustment are, according to variables identified in the Europeanization literature, to be explained by variations in the degree...

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