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Abstract
Given the conclusions reached in both these fields of study, the challenge for research in political science can no longer simply be to show that regions or sectors are important parts of the “domestic politics” input into European integration. Instead, its goal must now be to try to explain how different sets of actors within regions and sectors have simultaneously come to integrate the effects of European integration into their own practices and, in so doing, participated directly or by default in shaping this very dynamic. Put bluntly, two questions need to be addressed: why do certain sets of regional or sectoral actors “fit” more comfortably than others into a European-wide polity? what are the normative and analytical consequences of this variable geometry?
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