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    Incrementalism and Path Dependence: European Integration and Institutional Change in National Parliaments

    Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2001) Incrementalism and Path Dependence: European Integration and Institutional Change in National Parliaments. Journal of Common Market Studies 39 (3), pp. 405-422. ISSN 0021-9886.

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    Abstract

    This article analyses the manner in which the Parliaments of France, the UK and Greece have reacted to the process of European integration. It is argued that their reactions display an incremental logic marked by slow, small and marginal changes based on existing institutional repertoires. In all three cases Parliaments have used familiar mechanisms and procedures which they have modified only marginally. This reaction was path dependent, i.e. it was consistent with long-established patterns reflecting the subordinate position of these Parliaments within national polities.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: The author is currently Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College.
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2005
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:46
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/131

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