ISBN : 2738499805
THE EUROPEANISATION OF SUB-NATIONAL POLITICS: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN ANDALUCIA AND CATALONIA
Elisa Roller
In considering the impact of the process of European integration upon
the structure of the state, it is important to consider that this impact may
have had uneven consequences within the state itself. This is particularly
important in cases where the structure of the domestic political system
includes a highly asymmetrical system of sub-national authorities with
varying degrees of self-government. The equation is complicated even more
by the presence of nationalist movements influencing the national and subnational
policy making processes. In encompassing the theme of how states
are adapting to the process of European integration, this study seeks to
analyse how institutions at the sub-national level are adjusting to the
Europeanisation of the policy