Beschreibung:
Focusing on how domestic actors have framed Europe/EU norms in the debates on territorial reforms and the implications of this framing on policy reforms, this book asks how competing articulations of the EU and its norms construct state territoriality in the given political and policy debates.
Introduction 1. Meta-theory, Neoinstitutionalism, and Europeanization 2. A Poststructural Reading of Europeanization 3. Discourse as Data - Methodology of Discourse Analysis 4. Europeanization via Discursive Practice - Articulations of Europe in the Domestic Policy Debate on Territorial Reforms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia 5. Debating Territorial Reforms in Croatia Conclusion