Sabine Jenni

Switzerland¿s Differentiated European Integration

The Last Gallic Village?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thisbook analyses Switzerland's European policies using the concept ofdifferentiated European integration, providing a new and original perspectiveon the country. This analytical approach focuses on the similarities betweenSwitzerland's EU policies and the integration of EU member states. The latterhave often been the focus of research as Switzerland is the last WesternEuropean country not to have become a member of the European Union (EU) or theEuropean Economic Area (EEA). The book claims that Switzerland's position onthe European integration map is different in terms of degree from many EUmember states, but not different in kind. The cornerstone of the book is newempirical data quantitatively measuring Switzerland's differentiatedintegration during the period 1990 - 2010. The data rely on the sectoralagreements Switzerland concluded with the EU and the voluntary incorporation ofEU law into domestic legislation. The book shows, among other findings, thatover time Swiss European policies have begun to resemble integration policiesand that the more they did so, the more dynamically they evolved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-81572-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9783319815725
• ISBN-10: 3319815725
• Artikelnr.: 53577497

Autorenporträt

Sabine Jenni is an Associated Researcher at ETH Zurich and holds teaching assignments at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She also works as a Project Coordinator for artasfoundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Switzerland as a case of differentiated integration.- 1.1.1 Early differentiated integration: The history of the reluctant Europeans.- 1.1.2 At the crossroads: Switzerland re-invents the 'bilateral way'.- 1.1.3 Sectoral agreements: Integration with formal shortcomings.- 1.1.4 The 'autonomous adaptation' policy: A Swiss peculiarity?.- 1.2 Form and function of Switzerland's differentiated integration.- 1.2.1 The quality of Switzerland's integration: Quasi-member or not?.- 1.2.2 The reasons for Switzerland's integration: Theoretical outlier or not?.- 1.3 Connecting the pieces of the puzzle: Overview of the book.- 1.3.1 Measuring Switzerland's differentiated integration empirically.- 1.3.2 Analysing Switzerland's differentiated integration with integration theories.- 1.3.3 Added Value and Limitations of the Proposed Approach.- 1.4 Political Relevance.- 2. Measuring Switzerland's differentiated integration.- 2.1 Grasping the Puzzle: What is External Differentiated Integration?.- 2.1.1 External differentiated integration as the extension of EU rules.- 2.1.2 The substantive and legal quality of the extension of EU rules.- 2.1.3 What is and what is not differentiated integration.- 2.1.4 The extension of EU rules and the concept of Europeanisation.- 2.2 Gathering empirical data: EU rules in Swiss federal legislation.- 2.2.1 Population: The relevant parts of Swiss federal legislation.- 2.2.2 Units of measurement: EU rules and changes to the Swiss body of law.- 2.2.3 Coding Sources: Legal texts and the EU compatibility examination.- 2.3 Content Analysis: Measuring integration quality.- 2.3.1 Measuring the quality of EU rule extensions in sectoral agreements.- 2.3.2 Measuring the quality of EU rule extensions in domestic legislation.- 2.4 Descriptive results: Hints at substantive integration of a legal outsider.- 2.4.1 Legal charges, federal laws and sectoral agreements responsible for differentiated integration.- 2.4.2 Substantive and legal extension of EU rules over time.- 2.4.3 Substantive and legal extension of EU rules across policy fields.- 2.5 Discussion: Where to go from here.- 3. Institutional dynamics of Switzerland's differentiated integration.- 3.1 Sectoral agreements: Tension between form and substance.- 3.1.1 Cumbersome negotiations and cumbersome re-negotiations.- 3.1.2 Institutionalised agreement updates.- 3.1.3 Institutional shortcomings: Compensation via domestic legislation? 3.2 Theory: The consequences of incomplete contracts.- 3.2.1 Agreement ambiguities and substantive integration.- 3.2.2 Obligational incompleteness and legal integration.- 3.3 Analysis: Agreement incompleteness and everyday integration.- 3.3.1 Integration quality and frequencies of agreement revisions.- 3.3.2 Integration quality and quality of agreement revisions.- 3.3.3 Agreement qualities and the domestic incorporation of EU rules.- 3.4 Discussion: The relevance of substantive and legal integration qualities.- 4. Political dynamics of Switzerland's differentiated integration.- 4.1 Existing research in light of liberal intergovernmentalism.- 4.1.1 Domestic integration interests.- 4.1.2 Domestic political impediments and political strategies.- 4.1.3 Negotiations between Switzerland and the EU.- 4.1.4 Institutional choice in external differentiated integration.- 4.2 Hypotheses: What differentiated integration for what needs?.- 4.2.1 Domestic interests and differentiated integration.- 4.2.2 Domestic decision-making and differentiated integration.- 4.2.3 Agreement negotiations and differentiated integration.- 4.2.4 Alternative explanation for the domestic incorporation of EU rules.- 4.2.5 The choice of integration instruments.- 4.3 Bivariate analyses: Integration as a result of package deals.- 4.3.1 The role of economic performance and the scope of EU policies.- 4.3.2 The role of veto points, party positions and issue salience.- 4.3.3 The role of issue linkage and credible commitments in negotiations.- 4.3.4 Domestic incorporation of EU rules as policy learning?.- 4.4.- Multivariate analyses: Integration as a result of the EU policy scope and low issue salience.- 4.4.1 Sectoral agreements.- 4.4.2 Domestic incorporation of EU rules.- 4.4.3 Explanation of substantive integration over time.- 4.5 Discussion: Switzerland's integration compromises.- 5. Conclusion.- 5.1 Switzerland's differentiated integration: Continuity and change since 1990.- 5.1.1 Sectoral agreements: Bilaterals I and II as turning points.- 5.1.2 Domestic incorporation of EU rules: From "autonomous adaptation" to implementation.- 5.2 Switzerland in light of differentiated European integration.- 5.2.1 Quantitative Measurement: New findings and new puzzles.- 5.2.2 Explanation: Applicability of integration theories to non-member states.- 5.2.3 Comparison: Switzerland's place on the map of European integration.- 5.3 "The more it changes, the more it stays the same".- 5.3.1 Is Switzerland the last Gallic village in Europe?.- 5.3.1 Constraining dissensus or permissive consensus?.- 5.4 Political Relevance: Back to Square One?.- 5.4.1 Consequences of the immigration initiative.- 5.4.2 Swiss differentiated integration and Swiss democracy.- Annex.- A Annex Chapter 2.- A.1 Structure of the raw data.- A.2 Variable description.- A.3 Coding rules for the quality of EU rule extensions in sectoral agreements.- A.4 Coding rules for the quality of the incorporation of EU rules into domestic legislation.- A.5 Inter-coder reliability test.- A.6 Sub-chapters of the Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation.- B Annex Chapter 3.- B.1 Descriptive statistics for regression analysis in section 3.3.1.- B.2 Descriptive statistics for regression analysis in section 3.3.2.- B.3 Combining SR sub-chapters of domestic and international law.- B.4 Descriptive statistics for regression analysis in section 3.3.3.- C. Annex Chapter 4.- C.1 Coding of Independent Variables.- C.2 Descriptive Summary Statistic Regression Analyses.- C.3 Multinomial regression results