Rethinking the Europeanization Research Programme through Public Policy Literature: EU as a ‘Policy Transfer State’

The influence of the European Union (EU) on the political, economic and social structures of the member and candidate countries is defined as "Europeanisation". Since the 1990s, there have been many studies on Europeanization in national and international literature. The literature on policy transfer, which is defined as the process of using a policy, administrative regulation, institution and thought in the development of another policy, administrative regulation, institution and thought, has made a significant contribution to public policy studies in recent years. The EU governance process emerging as an overlapping area between these two literatures represents an important research field of unique applications through new and original tools of policy transfer to the researchers. Through focusing the policy transfer and rethinking the EU as a policy transfer state, this article also intends to fulfill the existing gap in national academic literature