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The New Institutionalisms and European Integration

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Mark A. Pollack
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The European Union is without question the most densely institutionalised international organization in the world, with a welter of intergovernmental and supranational institutions and a rapidly growing body of primary and secondary legislation, the so-called acquis communautaire. Small wonder, then, that the body of literature known under the rubric of the new institutionalism has been applied with increasing frequency and with increasing success to the study of the Union as a polity and to European integration as a process. In fact, however, the new institutionalism in social theory has evolved into plural institutionalisms, with rational-choice, sociological and historical variants, each with a distinctive set of hypotheses and insights about the EU. This chapter examines the new institutionalisms in rational choice and historical analysis and their contributions to EU studies, briefly summarizing the core assumptions of each approach before discussing specific applications to the study of the European Union and the question of EU enlargement, and concluding with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of institutional approaches to the study of European integration.

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