Introduction: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized States; Beyond the Goodness of Fit: A Preference-based Account of Europeanization; Framing European Integration in Germany and Italy: Is the EU Used to Justify Pension Reforms?; Explaining EU Impacts at the Domestic Level -- The Europeanization of Regulatory Policy in Denmark; Aggregating, Mobilizing and Recruiting: EU Integration and Party Functions; The Europeanization of Central Decision Makers' Preferences Concerning Europe: a Perpetual Motion?
Summary
Argues that a third wave of research on the EU is needed to adequately understand the increased interconnectedness between the European and national political levels. Addressing the question: how has Europeanization affected current modes of integration and cooperation in the EU? this book finds a variation in modes of cooperation in the EU