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Does the European Union change the domestic politics and institutions of its member states? Many studies of EU decisionmaking in Brussels pay little attention to the potential domestic impact of European integration. Transforming Europe traces the...
Brief description: Maria Green Cowles is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University and coeditor of State of the European Union: Risks, Reforms, Resistance, and Revival.
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This book... has been eagerly awaited, and the results do not disappoint. The reader is offered a sophisticated blend of careful building of a conceptual framework with rich empirical studies that carefully trace processes of change.... The result is a sensitive, nuanced portrait of the complex relationships between European integration and domestic change not just across different policy sectors but also with the same sector.... The editors are to be highly commended for putting together such an ambitious project, for giving it coherence and for seeking to challenge and provoke. They succeed admirably.
--Kenneth Dyson, University of Bradford "Journal of European Area Studies"