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question and answer. 2025. Latest update
QUESTION: Monnet Method - ANSWER Refers to Jean Monnet's strategy to
integrate by stealth: to promote spillover from one economic field to the other
and eventually from market integration to political integration
QUESTION: Functional Spillover - ANSWER integration in economics will create
incentives for integration in other areas
QUESTION: Political Spillover - ANSWER Deliberated political process.
Government elites drive supranational cooperation.
Neo-Functionalism - ANSWER the theory that cooperation between states in
simple areas will lead to more complex cooperation in more complex areas; it is a
,leading explanation for regionalism and deepening political integration. Int'l
postal union led to greater confidence.
QUESTION: Cultivated Spillover - ANSWER Supranational officials will push for
further integration from above. (1986 Single European Act)
QUESTION: Elite Socialization - ANSWER People involved on a regular basis in
supranational policy making will tend to develop European loyalties and
preferences. This bureaucratic elite, in turn, will try to convince their national
elites of the advantages of supranational cooperation.
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QUESTION: Intergovernmentalism - ANSWER suggests that national
governments control the level and speed of European integration. Any increase in
power at supranational level results from a direct decision by governments.
, Integration, driven by national governments, was often based on the domestic
political and economic issues of the day.
QUESTION: Empty Chair Policy - ANSWER refers to the empty chair crisis that
affected the European Community after July 1965 when France boycotted the
meetings of the Council in opposition to Commission proposals addressing the
financing of the Common Agricultural Policy. France also insisted on a political
agreement concerning the role of the Commission and majority voting if it were
to participate again. This crisis was resolved thanks to the Luxembourg
Compromise in January 1966.
QUESTION: Luxembourg Compromise 1966 - ANSWER 1966, appease France,
member allowed to veto a proposal that directly affected its national interests,
but rather vague language of what that meant
QUESTION: Liberal intergovernmentalism - ANSWER Moravcsik's theory
which suggests that the classic theory of liberalism set precedent for a number of
question and answer. 2025. Latest update
QUESTION: Monnet Method - ANSWER Refers to Jean Monnet's strategy to
integrate by stealth: to promote spillover from one economic field to the other
and eventually from market integration to political integration
QUESTION: Functional Spillover - ANSWER integration in economics will create
incentives for integration in other areas
QUESTION: Political Spillover - ANSWER Deliberated political process.
Government elites drive supranational cooperation.
Neo-Functionalism - ANSWER the theory that cooperation between states in
simple areas will lead to more complex cooperation in more complex areas; it is a
,leading explanation for regionalism and deepening political integration. Int'l
postal union led to greater confidence.
QUESTION: Cultivated Spillover - ANSWER Supranational officials will push for
further integration from above. (1986 Single European Act)
QUESTION: Elite Socialization - ANSWER People involved on a regular basis in
supranational policy making will tend to develop European loyalties and
preferences. This bureaucratic elite, in turn, will try to convince their national
elites of the advantages of supranational cooperation.
.
QUESTION: Intergovernmentalism - ANSWER suggests that national
governments control the level and speed of European integration. Any increase in
power at supranational level results from a direct decision by governments.
, Integration, driven by national governments, was often based on the domestic
political and economic issues of the day.
QUESTION: Empty Chair Policy - ANSWER refers to the empty chair crisis that
affected the European Community after July 1965 when France boycotted the
meetings of the Council in opposition to Commission proposals addressing the
financing of the Common Agricultural Policy. France also insisted on a political
agreement concerning the role of the Commission and majority voting if it were
to participate again. This crisis was resolved thanks to the Luxembourg
Compromise in January 1966.
QUESTION: Luxembourg Compromise 1966 - ANSWER 1966, appease France,
member allowed to veto a proposal that directly affected its national interests,
but rather vague language of what that meant
QUESTION: Liberal intergovernmentalism - ANSWER Moravcsik's theory
which suggests that the classic theory of liberalism set precedent for a number of
