States and Regions in the European Union: Institutional Adaptation in Germany and SpainEuropeanization has led to a significant change in the pattern of Spanish politics, turning rivalry into cooperation. This book thus presents an important analysis of the impact of Europeanization on domestic politics, and on the relationship between states and regions in particular."--Jacket. |
Contents
Europeanization and domestic institutional change A historical institutionalist approach | 13 |
Europeanization as a process of institutionalization and institutional change | 15 |
Conceptualizing the domestic impact of Europe Resource dependency versus institutional adaptation | 18 |
The domestic impact of Europe as a process of institutional adaptation | 22 |
The domestic impact of Europe as an institutiondependent process | 27 |
Purposeful but socially constrained | 28 |
Formal and informal rule structures which constitute actors and regulate their behavior | 29 |
Facilitating or prohibiting adaptation? | 31 |
The Comunidades Autonomas fight centralization | 107 |
A new strategy of cooperation and the emergence of institutional change | 116 |
Europeanization or institutional consolidation? | 134 |
Conclusion | 148 |
Sharing versus shifting the costs of adaptation The Europeanization of environmental policymaking in Germany and Spain | 151 |
The blooming of cooperative federalism Institutional adaptation to the Europeanization of environmental policymaking in Germany | 153 |
Joint cooperation and joint nonimplementation | 160 |
Fertilizing cooperative federalism | 172 |
Reinforcing cooperative federalism Institutional adaptation to Europeanization in Germany | 43 |
The Federal Republic of Germany as a model of cooperative federalism | 45 |
Multilateral bargaining and consensusseeking as the dominant institutional culture of German federalism | 48 |
The Lander strategy of cooperation and costsharing | 50 |
The rinascimento of cooperative federalism The impact of Europeanization on the territorial institutions of Germany | 53 |
The Lander strike back | 58 |
Redressing the territorial balance of power through sharing the costs of adaptation | 79 |
The Europeanization of cooperative federalism | 85 |
Conclusion | 88 |
Transforming competitive regionalism Institutional adaptation to Europeanization in Spain | 91 |
The Spanish State of Autonomies as a form of competitive regionalism | 93 |
Bilateralism confrontation and regional competition as the dominant institutional culture of Spanish regionalism | 98 |
The CCAA strategy of confrontation and costshifting | 100 |
Toward a framework of joint decisionmaking The impact of Europeanization on the territorial institutions of Spain | 103 |
The greening of competitive regionalism Institutional adaptation to the Europeanization of environmental policymaking in Spain | 178 |
Confrontation nonimplementation and noncooperation | 182 |
The increasing failure of costshifting in reducing adaptational costs | 188 |
mutual consultation and pragmatic collaboration | 192 |
Europeanization and the emergence of multilateral intergovernmental cooperation | 196 |
Conclusion | 209 |
Toward convergence in Europe? | 211 |
Cooperative regionalism on the rise? | 220 |
Some suggestions for future research | 228 |
Europe of the citizens? | 231 |
The major EU environmental policies of the policy study | 234 |
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