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Still in Search of Europeanization: From Limited to Structural Change?

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Europeanization and European Integration

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Over the past 15 years, research about Europeanization has developed as a main field for understanding the multiple facets of political change on the European continent. While the notion of Europeanization has generated vivid conceptual debates (Radaelli, 2000a; Olsen, 2002; Ladrech, 2002; Poguntke et al., 2007), its most widespread and basic understanding relates to the impact of the various dimensions of European integration on policies, politics and polities at the national (or subnational) level. Through successive waves of literature, Europeanization has generated a large body of empirical research, thus contributing to a better understanding of the effects of European integration in several respects.

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Coman, R., Crespy, A. (2014). Still in Search of Europeanization: From Limited to Structural Change?. 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_4

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