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Europe's Blues: Theoretical Soul-Searching after the Rejection of the European Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2006

Liesbet Hooghe
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and VU Amsterdam
Gary Marks
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and VU Amsterdam

Extract

The Spanish, French, Dutch, and Luxembourg referenda on the Constitutional Treaty are the latest, but certainly not the last, flashpoints in a contentious European Union. The era in which EU politics was determined by national and European elites ended about 15 years ago. With the Maastricht Accord of 1991, decision making on European integration entered the contentious world of party competition, elections, and referenda.

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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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