A seminal text in European studies, which addresses issues of research design and causal analysis. The chapters draw on different methodological traditions, notions of causality, and methods and use strong research design to address substantive problems in public policy, party politics, foreign policy and legislative studies.

Autorentext
IAN BACHE Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK SIMON BULMER Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK SAMUELE DOSSI PhD Candidate in Politics, University of Exeter, UK DEFNE GUNAY PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield, UK STELLA LADI Lecturer in European Politics, Panteion University, Athens, Greece ROBERT LADRECH Senior Lecturer, Keele University, UK KENNET LYNGGAARD Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, Roskilde University, Denmark DORTE SINDBJERG MARTINSEN Associate Professor, Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark KYRIAKOS MOUMOUTZIS has recently completed his PhD thesis on Greece's external relations within the context of the EU with the title at the London School of Economics, UK DIANA PANKE Lecturer of Politics, University College Dublin, Ireland SABINE SAURUGGER Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po in Grenoble, France ANNETTE ELIZABETH TÖLLER Professor of Political Science, Fern-Universität in Hagen, Germany

Inhalt
Europeanization: The Challenge of Establishing Causality; C.M.Radaelli Looking for Causality in the Literature on Europeanization; T.Exadaktylos & C.M.Radaelli Causality in Quantitative Approaches; A.E.Töller Europeanization: A Critical Realist Perspective; I.Bache , S.Bulmer & D.Gunay Discursive Institutional Analytical Strategies; K.Lynggaard Beyond Non-compliance with Legal Norms; S.Saurugger Delayed Europeanization: Multiple Hypotheses and Small Number of Cases; D.Panke The Europeanization of Healthcare: Processes and Factors; D.S.Martinsen How Cities Encounter Europe: Mechanisms and Modes; S.Dossi Understanding Causality and Change in Party Politics; R.Ladrech Europeanization of Foreign Policy outside the Common Foreign and Security Policy; T.Exadaktylos Rival Hypotheses: Comparing the Roles of the EU and Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization in Good Governance Reforms; S.Ladi Being Clear Enough to be Wrong: Europeanization Refuted and Defended; K.Moumoutzis Lessons Learned: Beyond Causality; C.M.Radaelli & T.Exadaktylos