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Europeanization and Political Parties

Towards a Framework for Analysis

SPIRE, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, United Kingdom. r.ladrech{at}keele.ac.uk

Europeanization is a term used to describe the effects of European integration on the politics and policies of its member states as well as the process of enhancing European-level political institutions. Within this growing literature there is no systematic effort to incorporate the role of political parties. However, party analysis has only recently begun to acknowledge the EU as an environment that holds potentially significant consequences for parties. In this article, I attempt to begin systematic research on Europeanization and political parties by presenting a basic framework for analysis. Five areas are singled out: (1) policy/programmatic content; (2) organization; (3) patterns of party competition; (4) party-government relations; and (5) relations beyond the national party system.

Key Words: Europeanization • organizational adaptation • political parties

Party Politics, Vol. 8, No. 4, 389-403 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1354068802008004002


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