%0 Journal Article
%T The Europeanisation of national political systems: Parliaments and executives
%A Klaus H. Goetz
%A Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
%J Living Reviews in European Governance
%D 2008
%I Institute for European Integration Research (EIF); University of Vienna
%X This article reviews the by now extensive literature on the Europeanisation of the political systems of the EU-15, with an emphasis on parliaments and executives (i.e., governments and ministerial administrations). The Living Review highlights apparently contradictory effects of integration: de-parlamentarisation vs. re-parlamentarisation; bureaucratisation vs. politicisation; and centralisation vs. diffusion. These diverging assessments of the effects of integration do, in part, reflect diversity in the EU-15; in part, they are, however, also a result of differences in the specification of variables, research designs and theoretical approaches. Work that inquires into patterns of Europeanisation ¨C across institutional domains, countries, regions and time ¨C and which seeks to tackle the ¡®methodological nationalism¡¯ of the Europeanisation literature promises a clearer picture of the institutional consequences of European integration than we possess at present.
%K administrative adaptation
%K diversity/homogeneity
%K democracy
%K Europeanisation
%K governance
%K leadership
%K policy coordination
%K public administration
%K national parliaments
%U http://www.livingreviews.org/lreg-2008-2