Europeanization and globalization - Politics against markets in the European Union

The authors attempt to sort out three exogenous factors affecting the domes tic societies of European Union (EU) member countries: market globalization , the European single market, and European supranational institutions. They offer a research design to separate the respective manifestations of each factor and apply it to four domestic dimensions: labor market, capital mark et, electoral competition, and center-local government relations. Although they find systematic evidence in the cases of the labor and capital markets supporting the widely shared claim that the EU is an agent of globalizatio n, the results also point to the importance of the voluntarist component in the electoral and subgovemmental domains.