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Adapting to European Integration Small States and the European Union
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Adapting to European Integration describes how the political institutions in eight small member states and two non-members responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration in general and EC/EU membership in particular. The study makes a distinction between governmental/administrative adaptation, political adaptation and strategic adaptation. The... Read more
- Table of Contents
- Small States and the Europeanisation of Public Policy
- Belgium: The Dilemma Between Cohesion and Autonomy
- The Netherlands
- Denmark: The Testing of a Hesitant Membership
- Ireland: The Rewards of Pragmatism
- Greece: Competing Regional Priorities
- Spain: Modernisation Through Integration
- Austria: Adaptation Through Anticipation
- Sweden: The State Joins the European Union
- Norway: An Adaptive Non-Member
- Switzerland: Adjustment Despite Deadlock
- Conclusions: The Nature of National Adaptation to European Integration
Biography
Hanf, Kenneth; Soetendorp, Ben
