Lecture 3 Flashcards
What are Federalists? When do their ideas fail?
In EU context obv.
What are the Intergovernmentalists?
What is Liberal Intergovernmentalism?
What is (neo-)functionalism?
What are the main premises of neofunctionalism?
What are the predictions of neo-functionalism?
What is institutionalism? What are the three different forms?
What is Europeanization?
What is uploading & downloading in the European context?
It is part of what?
Part op Europeanization.
What is the Multi-level governance approach to the EU?
What are the three core hypothesis core to neo-functionalist thinking?
- Spillover hypothesis
- Elite socialization hypothesis
- Supranational interest group hypothesis
What is the supranational intrest group hypothesis?
The idea that for organizations it would be preferential to more intense cooperation, thus they’d push for it.
What is the history of neo-functionalism?
What are the three different types of spillover?
- Functional spillover, one step towards cooperation leads to another
- Political spillover, national political elites/intrests groups argue that supranational cooperation is needed to solve specific problems
- Cultivated spillover, suptranational actors push the process of political integration
What are some critisisms of neo-functionalism?
What are the four key points of intergovernmentalism? From which IR theory did it originate?
Who created the intergovernmentalism theory?
Hoffmann
Why does Hoffmann disagree with functional spillover?
He argued that it could be possible in less controversial areas, but states would resist any incursion into areas of high politics.
What are critisisms of Hoffmanns intergovernmentalism theory?
Failure to take into consideration the noverlty and complexity of European integration. Question destrinction of low and high politics.
What are the varians of intergovernmentalism?
- Conferdarlism. complemens and extends intergovernmentalism by acknowledging institutionalized chacter of Europe
- Domestic politics approach, impossible to study Europe without looking at the decisionmaking process within member states
- Locking-in of states, different theories
What are the three locking-in theories of intergovernmentalism?
- Wessls’s fusion hypothesis
- Scharpf’s joint decision trap
- Pierson’s path dependence
They all explain how states become locked into the European process
What is liberal internationalism? What are some of its critiques?
What are the three types of new institutionalism and what is their research objective?
What are the the main ideas of the three types of new institutionalism?
What are constructivist approaches to the EU?
What can be said about critical theories of the EU?
What is Europeanization?
What is top-down Europinization?
What is bottom-up Europeanization?
What is sequal Europeanization?
