Liesbet Hooghe at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill Survey

European Union

Liesbet Hooghe
Last updated in April 2008.
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ON LEAVE AT THE HANSE WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG
Sept 15 2007 to May 15 2008

Work in Progress

ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

"A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissensus", with Gary Marks, forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science (2008). Three commentaries, by Tanja Boerzel and Thomas Risse, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Philippe Schmitter.

"Postcommunist Politics in a Magnetic Field: How Transition and EU Accession Structure Party Competition on European Integration" with Milada Vachudova, forthcoming in Comparative European Studies.

A 2008 Postscript to the Making of a Polity (originally written in 1999).

ON THE STRUCTURE OF AUTHORITY

Contents: Regional Authority in 42 Democracies, 1950–2006
Special issue with Gary Marks and Arjan Schakel. Regional and Federal Studies, 18, 2-3: 111-304. Informal final drafts below. Please consult RFS for quotation and citation.

I.	Measuring Regional Authority
II.	Operationalizing Regional Authority
III.	Validation of the Regional Authority Index
IV.	Patterns of Regional Authority
V-VII.	Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C

Recent Publications

ON EUROSKEPTICISM
Special issue in European Union Politics 8 (2007), 1: 5-150, edited by Liesbet Hooghe:
Table of contents
What Drives Euroskepticism? Party-public cueing, ideology, and strategic opportunity

Double special issue in Acta Politica 42 (2007), 2-3: 119-354, co-edited with Gary Marks:
The Sources of Euroscepticism: Introduction, with Gary Marks.
Does Occupation Shape Attitudes on Europe? Benchmarking Operationalizations, with JingJing Huo and Gary Marks.

ON PARTIES & PUBLIC OPINION
Cross-Validating Data on Party Positioning on European Integration, with Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen and Ryan Bakker, Electoral Studies 26 (2007),1: 23-38.

Do expert surveys produce consistent estimates of party stances on European integration? Comparing expert surveys in the difficult case of Central and Eastern Europe, with Gary Marks, Robert Rohrschneider, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Vachudova, Stephen Whitefield, iElectoral Studies 26 (2007), 1: 50-61

Party Competition and European Integration in East and West: Different Structure, Same Causality, with Gary Marks, Moira Nelson, Erica Edwards, Comparative Political Studies 39 (2006), 2: 155-75. SPSS data

Calculation, Community, and Cues: Public Opinion on European Integration, with Gary Marks, European Union Politics 6 (2005), 4: 421-445.SPSS data (zip)

Europe Divided? Elites vs. Public Opinion on European Integration, European Union Politics 4: 3 (2003), 281-305.SPSS data

Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration? with Gary Marks and Carole Wilson, Comparative Political Studies 35: 8 (2002), 965-989.

ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
European Union? with Gary Marks, the 30th anniversary issue of West European Politics 31 (2008) 1–2: 107–129.

Europe's Blues: Theoretical Soul-Searching After the Rejection of a European Constitution, with Gary Marks, PS: Politics and Political Science 39 (2006), 2: 247-50.

Does Identity or Economic Rationality Drive Public Opinion on European Integration? with Gary Marks, PSOnline: Political Science and Politics 37 (2004), 3: 415-420.

ON THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Several Roads Lead To International Norms, But Few Via International Socialization. A Case Study of the European Commission. International Organization 59,(2005), 4: 861-898.
SPSS

Euro-Socialists or Euro-Marketeers? Contention about European Capitalism among Senior Commission Officials Journal of Politics 62 (2000), 2: 430-454.

ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE
Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance, with Gary Marks, American Political Science Review 97 (2003), 2: 233-43.

Optimality and Authority: A Critique of Neo-Classical Theory, with Gary Marks, Journal of Common Market Studies 38 (2000), 5: 795-816.

Book Chapters

The Neofunctionalists Were (Almost) Right: Politicization and European Integration, with Gary Marks. The Diversity of Democracy: A Tribute to Philippe C. Schmitter, edited by Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck, (Edgar Elgar, publication in 2006), 205-222.

The Commission's Services, with Neill Nugent, in The Institutions of the European Union, edited by John Peterson and Michael Shackleton, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 147-168.

Contrasting Visions of Multi-Level Governance? with Gary Marks, in Multi-Level Governance, edited by Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 15-30.

Belgium: Hollowing the Center, in Does Federalism Matter? Political Institutions and the Management of Territorial Cleavages, edited by Nancy Bermeo and Ugo Amoretti, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2004), 55-92.

Short Articles and Book Reviews

"Letter from the Chair: Methodological Pluralism among Europeanists", European Politics and Society APSA Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2005, available from the web

"Letter from Chair: US-EU relations After the US Elections", European Politics and Society APSA Newsletter, Winter 2004, available from the web

“European integration and democratic competition,” with Gary Marks, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, available on the web: http://www.fes.de/europolity/SummaryHoogheMarks.htm , pp. 1-13.