The Limits of the Europeanization Research Agenda (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, a rich Europeanization research agenda has been developed to understand and analyse the impact of the EU on domestic politics. This literature expanded the analytical toolkit of European studies researchers to analyse the causal mechanisms intervening between the EU and domestic levels. Yet, much of the research on Europeanization has fallen short in explaining the recent form of rapid autocratization and norm contestation in some member states (e.g. Hungary, Poland) and candidate countries (e.g. Serbia, Turkey). This is mainly because the (de-)Europeanization literature starts with the assumption that the EU is the main factor that induces change in a domestic context. Therefore, it rests primarily on top–down accounts of the EU’s impact without an in-depth analysis of a recipient-driven Europeanization. In light of recent political events, this chapter shifts attention from top–down Europeanization to the domestic level and studies how the agents of autocratization drive the (de-)Europeanization process.

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