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Please go to multilevel governance and political parties, public opinion, social movements and methodology for more papers on Europe and European integration * * * 2009 forthcoming . A Postfunctional Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus, with Liesbet Hooghe. British Journal of Political Science. Commentaries from Schmitter, Kriesi, and Boerzel & Risse. This article is an attempt to draw on recent advances in the study of public opinion, political parties, and identity to frame hypotheses about preferences, strategies, and outcomes of regional integration. "Preferences over jurisdictional architecture are the product of three irreducible logics: efficiency, distribution, and identity. We substantiate the following claims: a) European integration has become politicized in elections and referendums; b) as a result, the preferences of the general public and of national political parties have become decisive for jurisdictional outcomes; c) identity is critical in shaping contestation on Europe. Our theorizing is postfunctionalist in that we make no assumption that jurisdictional outcomes are efficient." This article will be followed in a subsequent issue by commentaries and a response by the authors. * * * 2008. “European Union?” with Liesbet Hooghe. 30th Anniversary issue of West European Politics.” "This paper provides an overview of the study of the European Union since the doldrums of the 1970s. We focus on three debates that have helped to shape the field. Has European integration centralized state control or is European integration part of a process of dispersion of authority? What is the role of identity in framing preferences over European integration? And, finally, is European integration part of a new political cleavage? We observe that the European Union is a moving target. It has a habit of throwing up new and unexpected facts which wrong-foot extant theories. We have no grounds for believing that this will not continue." * * * 2006. Europe’s Blues: Theoretical Soul-Searching After the Rejection of a European Constitution, with Liesbet Hooghe, PS: Politics and Political Science (April 2006), 247-250. This article discusses how the rejection of the European Constitution challenges our understanding of European integration. It is, we hope, suited to undergraduate classes. "The Spanish, French, Dutch, and Luxembourg
referenda on the Constitutional Treaty * * * 2001. Multi-level Governance and European Integration,with Liesbet Hooghe (Rowman & Littlefield: Boulder, Colorado), 256 pp. Chapter 1, contents, and front material * * * 1999. The Making of a Polity: The Struggle over European Integration, with Liesbet Hooghe, in Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John Stephens, eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 70-97. This paper was an early attempt to understand contestation over European integration in the 1980s and beyond from the standpoint of domestic political cleavages. Independently, Simon Hix was thinking along parallel lines in his pathbreaking dissertation. We presented this paper in Berlin at the International Conference of Europeanists in Chicago, March 1996. * * * 1997. A Third Lens: Comparing European Integration and State Building, in Jytte Klausen and Louise A. Tilly, eds., European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective: 1850 to the Present (New York: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 23-50. Reprinted in Neill Nugent, ed., Theories of European Integration (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997). This is one of my favorite discursive papers. It argues that there are some fundamental similarities between the process of state building and European integration. * * * 1996. Governance in the European Union, with Fritz Scharpf, Philippe Schmitter, and Wolfgang Streeck, (London: Sage Press), 182 pp.
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