"Managing Europe from Home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A Comparative Analysis"

Laffan, Brigid. (2005) "Managing Europe from Home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A Comparative Analysis". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of core executive adaptation to engagement with the European Union in three states, Ireland, Greece, and Finland. To date the substantive focus of the literature on executive adaptation has been on the question of convergence or continuing divergence of national responses. The dominant conclusion points to the continuing divergence of national responses. The analytical framework that guided the empirical work in this paper was divided into two inter-related institutional components, structures and processes and the agents who actively engage with the EU’s governance structures. The comparative analysis provides evidence of both convergence and continuing diversity. In managing Europe from Home, states appear to choose from a menu of possible models, prime ministerial or foreign ministry led systems. Two variables stand out in explaining variation across the six states, the level of institionalisation and the relationship between formal and informal processes.

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