Lees, Charles. (1999) “The Red-Green Model, the Neue Mitte and Europeanisation: Conflicting Trends within German Social Democracy”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
Abstract
A crucial factor in the shaping of [the] Social Democratic-led project is the acknowledgment (in the case of the Greens)-and domestic political management of-the process of ‘Europeanisation.’ For the purposes of this paper, Robert Ladrech’s definition of Europeanisation as ‘an incremental process reorienting the direction and shape of politics to the degree that EC political and economic dynamics become part of the organisational logic of national politics and policy making’ (1994: 70) provides a satisfactory starting point. Europeanisation in this sense is both an independent and dependent variable. It acts as an exogenous factor within the domestic politics and policy making ‘arena,’ yet its institutional essence is constantly re-constituted-and its parameters redefined-by the process of national preference formation and subsequent interstate bargaining (Moravcsik 1994, 1999). In other words, a duality exists between the two functions. This paper focuses on this duality as it impacts upon, first, German statecraft and policy processes and, second, German party politics and policy preferences. The division between statecraft and party politics (and of course policy processes and preferences) is somewhat arbitrary, but serves to illustrate two temporal frameworks with their own utility flows. The former involves a ‘long game’ that transcends-or at least lasts longer than-the shorter and more volatile game of party politics and coalition management.
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