Lecture 3

Question 1

What are Federalists? When do their ideas fail?

In EU context obv.

Answer 1

Question 2

What are the Intergovernmentalists?

Answer 2

Question 3

What is Liberal Intergovernmentalism?

Answer 3

Question 4

What is (neo-)functionalism?

Answer 4

Question 5

What are the main premises of neofunctionalism?

Answer 5

Question 6

What are the predictions of neo-functionalism?

Answer 6

Question 7

What is institutionalism? What are the three different forms?

Answer 7

Question 8

What is Europeanization?

Answer 8

Question 9

What is uploading & downloading in the European context?

It is part of what?

Answer 9

Part op Europeanization.

Question 10

What is the Multi-level governance approach to the EU?

Answer 10

Question 11

What are the three core hypothesis core to neo-functionalist thinking?

Answer 11

1. Spillover hypothesis
2. Elite socialization hypothesis
3. Supranational interest group hypothesis

Question 12

What is the supranational intrest group hypothesis?

Answer 12

The idea that for organizations it would be preferential to more intense cooperation, thus they’d push for it.

Question 13

What is the history of neo-functionalism?

Answer 13

Question 14

What are the three different types of spillover?

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1. Functional spillover, one step towards cooperation leads to another
2. Political spillover, national political elites/intrests groups argue that supranational cooperation is needed to solve specific problems
3. Cultivated spillover, suptranational actors push the process of political integration

Question 15

What are some critisisms of neo-functionalism?

Answer 15

Question 16

What are the four key points of intergovernmentalism? From which IR theory did it originate?

Answer 16

Question 17

Who created the intergovernmentalism theory?

Answer 17

Hoffmann

Question 18

Why does Hoffmann disagree with functional spillover?

Answer 18

He argued that it could be possible in less controversial areas, but states would resist any incursion into areas of high politics.

Question 19

What are critisisms of Hoffmanns intergovernmentalism theory?

Answer 19

Failure to take into consideration the noverlty and complexity of European integration. Question destrinction of low and high politics.

Question 20

What are the varians of intergovernmentalism?

Answer 20

1. Conferdarlism. complemens and extends intergovernmentalism by acknowledging institutionalized chacter of Europe
2. Domestic politics approach, impossible to study Europe without looking at the decisionmaking process within member states
3. Locking-in of states, different theories

Question 21

What are the three locking-in theories of intergovernmentalism?

Answer 21

1. Wessls’s fusion hypothesis
2. Scharpf’s joint decision trap
3. Pierson’s path dependence

They all explain how states become locked into the European process

Question 22

What is liberal internationalism? What are some of its critiques?

Answer 22

Question 23

What are the three types of new institutionalism and what is their research objective?

Answer 23

Question 24

What are the the main ideas of the three types of new institutionalism?

Answer 24

Question 25

What are constructivist approaches to the EU?

Answer 25

Question 26

What can be said about critical theories of the EU?

Answer 26

Question 27

What is Europeanization?

Answer 27

Question 28

What is top-down Europinization?

Answer 28

Question 29

What is bottom-up Europeanization?

Answer 29

Question 30

What is sequal Europeanization?

Answer 30