The Europeanization of UK government: From quiet revolution to explicit step-change?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bulmer, S; Burch, M
• 署名单位: University of Manchester
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00481.x
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 861-890
• 关键词: blair government; integration; POLICY; CONSTRUCTION; presidency; IMPACT; state

摘要

In this paper we review - from a UK perspective - how the UK government and its policy process have adapted to European integration. Has adaptation been a quiet revolution, a step-change, or both? In exploring this question we draw upon the conceptual literature of Europeanization. We employ it to shed light on the longer-term pattern of UK adaptation as well as to put into context the domestic changes currently under way. Our argument is that a step-change is under way in the Europeanization of the UK government. However, at the end of the paper we will reflect on how this development remains over-shadowed by broader circumstances: the continued weak public support for the EU and the divisions which emerged with key EU partners from the UK's policy over Iraq.