Disentangling Europe : an assessment of the impact of the EU on party systems in member states / Sanja Badanjak.
Disentangling Europe : an assessment of the impact of the EU on party systems in member states / Sanja Badanjak.
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In many ways, the process of Europeanization has been running parallel to other processes, most prominently, that of globalization. While it appears that many of the changes, we see in the political landscapes of the member states can be attributed to the impact of the EU , it may also be the case that these are brought about by increased economic interdependence. The rise in popularity of niche parties and a hollowing out of alternatives with regard to economic policies are two of the most prominent effects that are found to be correlated with an increased participation in European integration. In this paper, I am assessing these claims against the alternative hypothesis, which places the causal power with globalization in general, rather than the integration specific to Europe. By employing matching techniques, I am providing a cleared picture of the dependence of the above mentioned domestic political outcomes on the parallel and often confounding processes of Europeanization and globalization.; Proces europeizacije se u mnogim aspektima zbivao istovremeno s drugim procesima, poglavito s procesom globalizacije. Iako se čini da upravo Europskoj uniji možemo pripisati promjene kojima svjedočimo u političkim krajolicima država članica, moguće je i da su one posljedica povećane ekonomske međuovisnosti, odnosno globalizacije. Rast popularnosti stranaka novih političkih niša i nepostojanje alternative postojećim ekonomskim politikama dva su najvažnija ishoda koja koreliraju s većom uključenošću države u procese europske integracije. U članku autorica analizira ove tvrdnje suprotstavljajući ih alternativnoj hipotezi da je uzročnik spomenutih promjena globalizacija općenito, a ne integracije koje su specifične samo za Europu. Koristeći tehnike „uparivanja”, autorica daje jasniju sliku povezanosti spomenutih političkih posljedica s istovremenim i često isprepletenim procesima europeizacije i globalizacije.