European Integration from the 1980s: State‐Centric v. Multi‐level Governance*

1996/09/01 by Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Kermit Blank · 1,533 citations
Social Sciences · #Argument (complex analysis) #Computer science #Corporate governance #EU Law and Policy Analysis #Economic system #Economics #European Union Policy and Governance #European and International Law Studies #European integration #European union #Global governance #Intergovernmentalism #International trade #Law #Law and economics #Management #Mediation #Multi-level governance #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Power (physics) #Process (computing) #Representation (politics) #Sociology #Sovereignty #State (computer science)

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1996.tb00577.x

published in JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies 34(3), 341-378 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Abstract This article takes initial steps in evaluating contending models of EU governance. We argue that the sovereignty of individual states is diluted in the European arena by collective decision‐making and by supranational institutions. In addition, European states are losing their grip on the mediation of domestic interest representation in international relations. We make this argument along two tracks. First, we analyse the conditions under which central state executives may lose their grip on power. Next, we divide up the policy process into stages and specify which institutional rules may induce various actors to deepen EU policy‐making.

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