Open Political Science, Methodological Nationalism and European Union Studies

Government and Opposition

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-612

  Rosamond, Ben ^a  

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EID: 77950710530     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2008.00270.x     Document Type: Review

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2. John S. Keeler, ‘Mapping EU Studies: The Evolution from Boutique to Boom Field 1960–2001’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 43: 3 (2005), pp. 551–582.
3. See Ben Rosamond, ‘The Political Sciences of European Integration: Disciplinary History and EU Studies’, in Knud Erik Jørgensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond (eds), Handbook of European Union Politics, London, Sage, 2007, pp. 7–30.
4. See Rosamond, ‘The Political Sciences of European Integration’
5. Ben Rosamond, ‘European Integration and the Social Science of EU Studies: The Disciplinary Politics of a Subfield’, International Affairs, 83: 2 (2007), pp. 231–252.
6. James N. Rosenau and Mary Durfee, Thinking Theory Thoroughly: Coherent Approaches in an Incoherent World, Boulder, CO, Westview, 1999.
7. Cited in Philippe C. Schmitter, ‘Examining the Present Euro-polity with the Help of Past Theories’, in Gary Marks, Fritz Scharpf, Philippe C. Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck, Governance in the European Union, London, Sage, 1996, p. 1.
8. Beck and Grande, Cosmopolitan Europe, p. 2.
9. See Zygmunt Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992.
10. Beck and Grande, Cosmopolitan Europe, pp. 94–97.
11. See also Daniel Chernilo, ‘Social Theory's Methodological Nationalism’, European Journal of Social Theory, 9: 1 (2006), pp. 5–22.
12. See Chris Rumford, ‘Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Europe’, in Chis Rumford, Cosmopolitanism and Europe, Liverpool, University of Liverpool Press, 2007, pp. 1–15.
13. Beck and Grande, Cosmopolitan Europe, p. 154.
14. It is also interesting to note an emerging side debate about the most appropriate ways in which to bring together sociology and EU Studies. For alternatives see Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford, Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization, London, Routledge, 2005
15. Adrian Favell, ‘The Sociology of EU Politics’, in Jørgensen et al., Handbook of European Union Politics, pp. 122–128.
16. There is no supposition that this is a representative sample of recent political science work. Other recent work from the political science tradition sees a democratic route to the future of European integration in terms of reconceptualizing the EU away from rather staid and unhelpful Westphalian terminologies towards thinking about it as a ‘flexible neo-medieval empire’. See Jan Zielonka, Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged EU, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
17. Alex Warleigh has labelled this impulse ‘intradisciplinarity’. See his ‘In Defence of Intra-Disciplinarity; “European Studies”, the “New Regionalism” and the Issue of Democratisation’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17: 2 (2004), pp. 301–318.
18. James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, ‘The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life’, American Political Science Review, 78: 3 (1984), pp. 734–749
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21. For overviews see Mark Aspinwall and Gerald Schneider (eds), The Rules of Integration: Institutionalist Approaches to the Study of Europe, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001
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23. Antje Wiener, ‘Constructivism and Sociological Institutionalism’, in Michelle Cini and Angela K. Bourne (eds), Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 35–55.
24. Olsen, Europe in Search of Political Order, pp. 1–16.
25. See Helen Wallace and William Wallace, ‘Overview: The European Union, Politics and Policy-Making’, in Jørgensen et al., Handbook of European Union Politics, pp. 339–358
26. Manuele Citi and Martin Rhodes, ‘New Modes of Governance in the European Union: A Critical Survey and Analysis’, in Jørgensen et al., Handbook of European Union Politics, pp. 463–482.
27. Olsen, Europe in Search of Political Order, pp. 165–182.
28. Europe in Search of Political Order., p. 223.
29. Europe in Search of Political Order., pp. 135–61 and 252–75.
30. Schmidt, Democracy in Europe, p. 7.
31. Democracy in Europe., pp. 248–265.
32. Democracy in Europe., p. 250.
33. On ‘Europeanization’ see Tanja Börzel and Thomas Risse, ‘Europeanization: The Domestic Impact of European Union Policies’, in Jørgensen et al., Handbook of European Union Politics, pp. 483–504.
34. Schmidt, Democracy in Europe, pp. 8–45.
35. Democracy in Europe., p. 234.
36. Lauri Karvonen, ‘Europe's Spaces and Boundaries’, Comparative European Politics, 5: 4 (2007), pp. 441–460.
37. Rokkan's work is discussed thoroughly in Peter Flora, Stein Kuhnle and Derek Urwin (eds), State Formation, Nation-Building and Mass Politics: The Theory of Stein Rokkan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
38. The other notable examples are Daniele Caramani, The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
39. Maurizio Ferrera, The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
40. Bartolini, Restructuring Europe, pp. 56–115.
41. For a discussion of this tendency in EU studies, with specific reference to integration theory, see Ben Rosamond, ‘The Uniting of Europe and the Foundation of EU Studies: Revisiting the Neofunctionalism of Ernst B. Haas’, Journal of European Public Policy, 12: 2 (2005), pp. 237–254.
42. See respectively Flora et al., State Formation; and Albert O. Hirschmann, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1970.
43. Bartolini, Restructuring Europe, pp. 116–176.
44. Restructuring Europe., pp. 177–247.
45. Restructuring Europe., p. 175.
46. Schimidt, Democracy in Europe, p. 9.
47. Bartolini, Restructuring Europe, p. 408.
48. Restructuring Europe., pp. 406–407.
49. See, for example, Andrew Moravcsik, ‘In Defence of the “Democratic Deficit”: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 40: 4 (2002), pp. 603–624
50. Giandomenico Majone, Regulating Europe, London, Routledge, 1996
51. Giandomenico Majone, ‘The Regulatory State and its Legitimacy Problems’, West European Politics, 22: 1 (1999), pp. 1–24.
52. For an alternative critique see Andreas Føllesdal and Simon Hix, ‘Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 44: 3 (2006), pp. 553–562.
53. Daniel Wincott, ‘Regulatory Governance and the European Social Model: The Challenge of Substantive Legitimacy’, European Law Journal, 12: 6 (2006), pp. 743–763.
54. Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione, ‘Legitimising the Euro-Polity and its Regime: The Normative Turn in EU Studies’, European Journal of Political Theory, 2: 1 (2003), pp. 7–34.
55. For overviews of the literature see Andreas Føllesdal, ‘Normative Political Theory and the European Union’, in Jørgensen et al., Handbook of European Union Politics, pp. 317–335
56. Lynn Dobson, ‘Normative Theory and Europe’, International Affairs, 82: 3 (2006), pp. 511–523.
57. This list of topics comes from Føllesdal, ‘Normative Political Theory’, pp. 318–319.
58. See the discussion of the sheer range of political theory-informed perspectives on legitimacy offered by Føllesdal, ‘Normative Political Theory’, pp. 323–328.
59. Weale, Democratic Citizenship, p. 14.
60. Democratic Citizenship., pp. 13–14.
61. Democratic Citizenship., chs 2 and 3.
62. Democratic Citizenship., p. 144.
63. This idea was classically formulated in early functionalist theories of post-national institution-building. See, most prominently, David Mitrany, A Working Peace System, Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1966 [1943].
64. Weale, Democratic Citizenship, p. 94.
65. For elaboration see Rosamond, ‘The Political Sciences of European Integration’.