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Europeanization as a Conceptual Mirage? From Variables to Actors: The Case of the Food Safety Reforms

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Europeanization and European Integration

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Europeanization has proved successful in shifting the EU debate away from the nature of the EU integration since the 1990s. Following Svein Anderson and Kjell Eliassen (1993, p. 12), many EU scholars started viewing the EU political system as a totality’, which brought domestic politics back into the analysis. Despite numerous syntheses, there is no common definition for Europeanization, which remains a much debated concept. Here, the objective is certainly not to offer a new definition on the academic market. This chapter is nonetheless an iconoclast one as it stems from a researcher whose position towards Europeanization shifted from initial attraction to epistemological scepticism. What the provocative title questions is whether Europeanization is useful at all as an explanans for change.

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Alam, T. (2014). Europeanization as a Conceptual Mirage? From Variables to Actors: The Case of the Food Safety Reforms. In: Coman, R., Kostera, T., Tomini, L. (eds) Europeanization and European Integration. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325501_8

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