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By Arne Niemann
Explaining results of decision-making on the eu point has occupied students because the past due Fifties, but analysts proceed to disagree at the most vital elements within the strategy. during this ebook, which used to be initially released in 2006, Arne Niemann examines the interaction of the supranational, governmental and non-governmental actors thinking about european integration, in addition to the impression of household, supranational and foreign buildings. The e-book restates and develops neofunctionalism as an method for explaining judgements within the ecu Union and assesses the usefulness of the revised neofunctionalist framework on 3 case stories: the emergence and improvement of the PHARE programme, the reform of the typical advertisement coverage, and the communitarisation of visa, asylum and immigration coverage. Niemann argues that this vintage idea may be converted in this kind of approach as to attract on a much broader theoretical repertoire and that many micro-level strategies can sensibly be accommodated inside his greater neofunctionalist framework.
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8). 54 Lindberg (1963: 10). 55 Haas (1968: preface). Lindberg (1963: 11). 57 Jørgensen and Christiansen (1999: 4). Hoffmann (1995 [1964]: esp. 75–84). 22 Explaining Decisions in the European Union history of European integration the importance of these tendencies can be illustrated by the disruptiveness of French EC policies under Charles de Gaulle and British policies under Margaret Thatcher. 59 In the 1950s and 1960s, at the time when neofunctionalism dominated the academic debate, such an assumption was widespread amongst economists, not least because western free-market economies were enjoying a period of unprecedented growth and duration.
E. they choose that option which they believe best fulfils their purposes. Preferences do not result from random choice but reflect deliberate behaviour. Second, actors are basically egoistic. They base their behaviour on consequential calculations of self-interests and try to enhance their utility through strategic exchanges. Hence, an instrumental–utilitarian conception of rationality does have a place in the revised neofunctionalist framework. However, some other rationalchoice tenets cannot be taken on board.
18 Linked to this was the similarly naive neofunctionalist ‘end of ideology’ assumption, which held that as societies became richer, they would become more concerned with the pursuit of wealth rather than with nationalist, socialist or religious ideals. Neofunctionalism is mainly a theory about the dynamics of European integration. The dynamics which drive the integration process forward are encapsulated in the last five neofunctionalist maxims. First, neofunctionalists assume rational and largely self-interested19 actors, who (nevertheless) have the capacity to learn and change their preferences.