Abstract
The study of Europeanization concerns the domestic reaction to the strengthening and widening of European Union (EU) activities that directly affect domestic polities, politics and policies.1 The literature on Europeanization has slowly moved from the study of member states to the study of candidate countries, and special attention has recently been paid to non-member states with no immediate accession prospects. This chapter focuses on the Europeanization of non-member states (i.e., the Black Sea countries) and explores rival hypotheses in order to establish causality. The novelty of this chapter is that rather than focusing the design on the relations between non-member states and the EU, it explores what else exists alongside the EU that pushes for similar reforms (i.e., other international and regional organizations). The adoption of such a research design reduces bias and shows that causality in European studies is complex and conjunctional.
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Ladi, S. (2012). Rival Hypotheses: Comparing the Roles of the European Union and Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization in Good Governance Reforms. In: Research Design in European Studies. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137005090_12
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