Research Methods in European Union Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Crossroads in European Union Studies....Pages 3-17
Methodology in European Union Studies....Pages 18-36
European Union History....Pages 37-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
European Identity: Conflict and Cooperation....Pages 55-71
People and Social Groups in the European Union....Pages 72-85
Single Policy Study: Three Variations in Design....Pages 86-101
Analysing European Discourses....Pages 102-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Studying Agenda Setting....Pages 123-135
Studies of Bargaining in the European Union....Pages 136-153
Implementation Studies: Beyond a Legalistic Approach....Pages 154-167
Analysing Networks....Pages 168-183
Visual Primes and European Union Identity: Designing Experimental Research....Pages 184-205
Europeanisation....Pages 206-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
The European Union in Global Politics: Normative Power and Longitudinal Interpretation....Pages 221-236
The Blurred Boundaries and Multiple Effects of European Integration and Globalisation....Pages 237-251
Hard and Soft Governance....Pages 252-265
Political Parties and the European Union....Pages 266-280
Studying European Union Attitude Formation Using Experiments....Pages 281-296
European Union Studies and the New Regionalism....Pages 297-308
Research Strategies in European Union Studies: Beyond Dichotomies....Pages 309-321
Back Matter....Pages 322-342