Research Design in European Studies [electronic resource] : Establishing Causality in Europeanization /
Exadaktylos, T.editor.
Radaelli, C.editor.
A seminal text in European studies, which addresses issues of research design and causal analysis. The chapters draw on different methodological traditions, notions of causality, and methods and use strong research design to address substantive problems in public policy, party politics, foreign policy and legislative studies.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Preface; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Notes on Contributors; 1 Europeanization: The Challenge of Establishing Causality; 2 Looking for Causality in the Literature on Europeanization; 3 Causality in Quantitative Approaches; 4 Europeanization: A Critical Realist Perspective; 5 Discursive Institutional Analytical Strategies; 6 Beyond Non-Compliance with Legal Norms; 7 Process Tracing: Testing Multiple Hypotheses with a Small Number of Cases
8 The Europeanization of Health Care: Processes and Factors9 How Cities Encounter Europe: Mechanisms and Modes; 10 Understanding Causality and Change in Party Politics; 11 Europeanization of Foreign Policy beyond the Common Foreign and Security Policy; 12 Rival Hypotheses: Comparing the Roles of the European Union and Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization in Good Governance Reforms; 13 Being Clear Enough to Be Wrong: Europeanization Refuted and Defended; 14 Lessons Learned: Beyond Causality; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A seminal text in European studies, which addresses issues of research design and causal analysis. The chapters draw on different methodological traditions, notions of causality, and methods and use strong research design to address substantive problems in public policy, party politics, foreign policy and legislative studies.
European Union
European Union.
Political science.
Comparative politics.
United States—Politics and government.
International relations.
European Union Politics.
Political Science.
Comparative Politics.
US Politics.
International Relations.