Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France

The process of Europeanization in France is analyzed, especially as it impacts domestic politics and institutions. Europeanization is an incremental process reorienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that European Community (EC) political and economic dynamics become part of the o...

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Published in:Journal of common market studies 1994-03, Vol.32 (1), p.69-88
Main Author: LADRECH, ROBERT
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Common markets
Domestic policy
EC single market
Europe
European Union
Europeanization
Factors
France
Maastricht Treaty
Nationalism
Organization
Policy making
Politics
Treaties
Trends
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Summary:The process of Europeanization in France is analyzed, especially as it impacts domestic politics and institutions. Europeanization is an incremental process reorienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that European Community (EC) political and economic dynamics become part of the organizational logic of national politics and policy making. In the case of France, 2 areas are considered: 1. recent constitutional and parliamentary developments, and 2. the territorial bases of policy-making, focusing on relations between national and subnational levels. It is suggested that the EC has indeed affected the pace and direction of the Fifth Republic institutional change in the 1980s. The implications for EC institutional and political development is a growing mosaic of national responses and practices which should feed into the debates and design plans being considered for the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference on matters of EC institutions.
ISSN:0021-9886
1468-5965
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1994.tb00485.x