Abstract
This essay applies a political science perspective to the ‘outside-in’ problématique of international organisations and their normative impact on the EU and its legal order. The authors show how such an impact varies across policy fields, international organisations and time. The authors argue that the distribution of competences between Member States and EU institutions is an explanatory factor which is often complemented by the configuration of policy preferences among the larger—or sometimes a wider group of—EU Member States. In order to better determine the likely impact, one needs to know about the origin of specific international norms and the policy cycles producing them, i.e. agenda-setters, policy-makers, decision-makers, implementers. The authors consider a sequential analysis to be a fruitful avenue of inquiry, and thus provide a theoretical foundation for part of the empirical work carried out in the case-study chapters of the book.
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- Political Science
- World Trade Organization
- International Institution
- International Labour Organization
- Legal Order
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Manners 2002.
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Keohane 1989.
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Bull 1977.
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Keohane 1988, 383.
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Scharpf 1997, 39.
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Thelen and Steinmo 1992, 9.
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Dai 2005, 366.
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Abbott and Snidal 2000, 428.
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Hall and Taylor 1996, 15.
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Barnett and Finnemore 2004, 3.
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Johnston 2001, 502.
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Bernstein 2002, 206.
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Aspinwall and Schneider 2000, 16.
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Thelen and Steinmo 1992, 3.
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Ikenberry 1994, 14.
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Schmidt 2008, 305.
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Schmidt 2008, 306.
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Schimmelfennig 2001, 63.
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Costa and Jørgensen (eds) 2012.
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Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.
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Wetzel 2012.
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See also Chap. 11 of this volume.
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Koops 2012.
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Costa 2010.
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Slaughter 2004.
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Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.
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See also Chap. 7 of this volume.
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Young 2012.
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Koops 2012.
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Léonard and Kaunert 2012.
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Peterson 1995.
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Jönsson et al. 1998, 328.
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Hix 1998, 40.
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Christou and Simpson 2012.
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Wetzel 2012.
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Groenleer 2012.
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Koops 2012.
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Costa 2008.
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Costa 2010.
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Young 2012.
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Young 2012.
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See also Chap. 9 of this volume.
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Costa and Meier forthcoming.
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Wetzel 2012.
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Christou and Simpson 2012.
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Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.
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Léonard and Kaunert 2012.
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Koops 2012.
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Young 2012.
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Christou and Simpson 2012.
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Groenleer 2012.
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Emerson et al. (2011).
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Karns and Mingst (1990).
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Costa, O., Jørgensen, K.E. (2013). The Influence of International Organisations on the European Union: A Political Science Perspective. In: Wessel, R., Blockmans, S. (eds) Between Autonomy and Dependence. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-903-0_4
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