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Europeanization of public policies: mMyths and paradoxes

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The goal of this chapter is to investigate the state of the art in the research on Europeanization of public policies. It seeks to identify and discuss the main explanatory variables applied to understand to variations of the level and scope of Europeanisation in different sectors and policies. In the first step the author operationalizes the concept of Europeanization for the purpose of analyzing its influence on the public policies. Then, consequently this study overviews the Europeanisation mechanisms through which the transformative impact coming from the supranational level becomes effective. Next, it suggests some methods in which this problem is researched in other EU member states and then consequently it applies this conclusions into the research concept. The text is illustrated with quantitative data on the scope of the European legislation penetration in today’s Europe as well as it shows the real ‘regulatory intervention’ of the European Union in its member states. In the conclusions the author is cautious however, pointing to the fact that very often it is highly difficult to isolate the Europeanisation impulses from other determinants of change (like internationalization and globalization).