Domestic Europeanization – Institutional Entrepreneurs and Welfare State Change

Institutional Entrepreneurs

In a market economy, entrepreneurs are businessmen who start a new business or expand an existing business by integrating production factors. In an emerging market economy, where market institutions are being established, in order to start or expand a successful business, a businessman not only has to possess the same ability as their counterpart in a market economy, he also has to overcome man...

Europeanization and decentralization of welfare “safety nets”

Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups

Although EU institutions and policies create additional opportunities for national interest groups to influence policy-making, not all domestic interest groups make use of the extended niche that is provided by the EU. Lagging Europeanization has often been explained by resource-based accounts, i.e. the wealth of interest groups determines their ability to Europeanize. This article explores an ...

Chapter 5 Regional Shared Rule as Institutional Veto Point for Welfare State Change

Whither Europeanization? Concept stretching and substantive change

This paper discusses the concept of Europeanization in the light of recent research on the impact of the European Union politics and policy. Conceptual analysis is preliminary to empirical analysis. Accordingly, I examine the risk of ‘concept stretching’, discuss extension and intension of Europeanization, and propose a taxonomy to ‘unpack’ the concept and organize empirical research. The expla...