Abstract: Despite early neo-functionalist expectations of a transfer of loyalties to a supranational level in which the nascent parliamentary groups of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Common Assembly could represent proto-European parties (Haas 1958; Lindberg 1963), party politics remains overwhelmingly encased within national contexts. As for evidence of the Europeanisation of national party politics, paraphrasing Smith (1989) regarding change in western European party systems, there has been 'peripheral' change with the 'core' remaining intact. Following the Europeanisation theme, there is no argument that the European Union (EU), especially since the Single European Act (SEA) in the late 1980s, has had an impact on the domestic institutions and policies of its member states (Bulmer and Lequesne 2005); what is more surprising is the degree to which this interwoven relationship between the EU and member states is not reflected in the competitive politics of member states nor in the organisational structure of the parties themselves.KeywordsEuropean UnionParty SystemEuropean ParliamentDomestic PoliticsNational PartyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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