James A Caporaso
Biographic Data
| ID | 313880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Caporaso |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Caporaso |
| SIGNATURE | CAPORASO J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 855 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Democracy, Accountability, and Rights in Supranational Governance
The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policy and Domestic Structural Change
Europe's Triple Crisis and the Uneven Role of Institutions: The Euro, Refugees and Brexit
Europe is currently embroiled in three ongoing and interacting crises concerning the eurozone, refugees and Brexit. After briefly describing each crisis, I turn to the ways in which they intersect and the role of institutions in solving the crises. There are two central themes in the paper. The first is that the three crises intersect and feed on one another. The second is that, while institutions can often help, they are not panaceas. Existing s…
Still a regulatory state? The European Union and the financial crisis
The European Union (EU) has been conceptualized as a regulatory state, i.e., an emerging polity that differs from the classic Westphalian state. Unable to engage in redistribution and stabilization, the EU has specialized in a range of regulatory functions related to market creation and management of externalities. We argue that the European financial crisis is pushing the EU to move beyond regulation. We explore the origins of and responses to t…
The Maastricht Treaty at Twenty: A Greco-European Tragedy
Since 2010, the financial crisis has raged across Europe, taking down governments of several members of the euro-zone in the process. Despite strong pressure for reform, and many meetings of heads of state, the problems are far from over. The crisis has been widely represented as a sovereign debt fiasco and a failure of fiscal policy by five peripheral member states (Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland). However, the real causes of the pr…
Henry Teune (1936–2011)
The dual nature of European identity: Subjective Awareness and Coherence
We conceptualize European identity as a dual concept (subjective awareness and coherence) that contains both perceptual and behavioral components. We provide a set of indicators for European identity and analyze the data to assess changes in European identity over the last 50 years. Our goal is to offer a conceptual framework and method of assessing identity in an empirically sensitive way. Our findings show that EU citizens have multiple identit…
Domesticating discourses: European law, English judges, and political institutions
Political science research on Europeanization has focused too little on the domestic legal-constitutional implications of European legal integration. We address this relative neglect, identifying two models of the impact of European law on domestic judicial discourses and testing them against evidence on the invocation of three EU law concepts within English courts. Contrary to a statist model, which expects judicial discourses to correspond clos…
Polanyi in Brussels: Supranational Institutions and the Transnational Embedding of Markets
Many have argued that the success of European integration is predicated on reinforcing market structures and some have gone further to state that the creation of a transnational market results in a decoupling of markets from their national political and social frameworks, thus threatening to unravel historical social bargains. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi and John Ruggie and using their insights regarding the social embedding of markets, w…
Fortieth Anniversary Issue
Research Frontiers in Comparative Politics: A Special Issue of Comparative Political Studies
Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities by Vivien A. Schmidt
Journal Article Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities by Vivien A. Schmidt Get access Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Politiesby Vivien A. Schmidt. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. 328pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper $27.95. James A. Caporaso James A. Caporaso University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 6…
The promises and pitfalls of an endogenous theory of institutional change: A comment
Contributors to this volume attempt to fashion an endogenous theory of institutional change. The main conceptual vehicle is the incomplete contract. Starting with the assumption that the various treaties of the European Union are contracts (agreements among states), contributors look to the ways in which ambiguities and gaps in these contracts, along with different interests among the institutional actors, create dynamic pressures for change. Dif…
The new modes of governance and political authority in Europe
Chapter 14 Democracy, Accountability, and Rights in Supranational Governance
Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism, and the Study of the European Union
Three central goals motivate this introductory essay and the articles that follow. First, we seek better understanding of the EU's own institutions, especially to the extent that they play a role in or represent the process of integration. Second, we seek better integration of the multiple general understandings of institutions and primarily of rationalist and constructivist conceptions. Third and most important, we seek to promote the integratio…
Changes in the Westphalian Order: Territory, Public Authority, and Sovereignty
nature of concepts. All concepts are abstract. Indeed, root of word means to draw out or away from what Harry Eckstein called the relentless particularity of experience. Concepts attempt to draw together elements of concrete experience that can be grouped in a fruitful way, so as to improve our understanding. Thus, point is not to avoid abstraction, but to build fruitful concepts. Again, no one will disagree with so anodyne a statement. The chall…
Comparative Politics: Diversity and Coherence
One striking difference between the fields of comparative politics and international relations concerns the relative proportion of theory versus empirical detail. In international relations, theories are organized around the distribution of power, strategic interaction, and the role of institutions, law, and morality. Comparative politics, by contrast, starts from the assumption that the anarchy problem has been solved and that domestic polities …
Institutionalism and the European Union: Beyond International Relations and Comparative Politics
The growing use of institutional analysis in the study of the European Union (EU) has improved EU scholarship and rendered it more integral to the discipline of political science. Institutionalist analyses differ regarding the theoretical role of institutions and actor preferences. We classify institutionalist approaches to the EU by their theoretical treatment (exogenous or endogenous) of institutions and preferences. Analyses at the research fr…
States, Agency, and Rules: The European Union in Global Environmental Politics
La Cour de justice et l'intégration européenne
Nous proposons une théorie de l'intégration juridique européenne, le processus par lequel un système juridique supranational a été construit en Europe. Ce processus résulte de l'interaction de trois facteurs: les échanges transnationaux, le contentieux transnational et la production de règles supranationales. Une fois forgées, les relations causales entre ces trois facteurs évoluent selon une dynamique autonome qui sert à étendre la portée de l'a…
Regional integration theory: Understanding Our Past and Anticipating Our Future
This article is a reflection on the field of European integration studies, a product of four years of collaboration within the 'Laguna Beach Project.' This project, co-organized by Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz, will be published as Supranational Governance: The Institutionalization of the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Three themes are explored in this article: the growing importance of institutions in the EU over…
A Tribute to Harry Eckstein
In this article, the authors attempt to provide background for this special issue in honor of Harry Eckstein and his work. A brief sketch of Eckstein's personal life is offered, focusing on his formative experiences in Hitler's Germany. The article then turns to an in-depth analysis of three of Eckstein's writings: his splendid essay titled “Political Science and Public Policy”; his unrivaled overview of the field of comparative politics in “A Pe…
Across the Great Divide: Integrating Comparative and International Politics
Research in comparative and international politics often deals with the same questions, such as the nature of war, the conduct of foreign economic policy, and the consequences of different political institutions. Yet there is a pronounced gap between these two subfields of political science. In neorealist theory, this gap is to be expected, since the structure of the international system cannot be reduced to facts about its component units. Given…
The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post‐Modern
This article sets out to chart the evolving institutional structure of the EU, in the context of theories about forms of state. ‘Forms of state’ are taken to be conceptually possible expressions of political authority organized at the national and transnational levels, here dealt with as emphases and qualities to be accented rather than phenomena to be sorted into categories. The EU is examined in the light of three stylized state forms ‐ the Wes…
The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post‐Modern
This article sets out to chart the evolving institutional structure of the EU, in the context of theories about forms of state. ‘Forms of state’ are taken to be conceptually possible expressions of political authority organized at the national and transnational levels, here dealt with as emphases and qualities to be accented rather than phenomena to be sorted into categories. The EU is examined in the light of three stylized state forms ‐ the Wes…
Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism, and the Study of the European Union
Three central goals motivate this introductory essay and the articles that follow. First, we seek better understanding of the EU's own institutions, especially to the extent that they play a role in or represent the process of integration. Second, we seek better integration of the multiple general understandings of institutions and primarily of rationalist and constructivist conceptions. Third and most important, we seek to promote the integratio…
Dependence, dependency, and power in the global system: A Structural and Behavioral Analysis
Although there is already a huge literature on dependence in international relations, many fundamental conceptual issues remain unresolved. Is the pattern of dependence of advanced industrial states on one another different in kind or only in degree from the dependence of peripheral capitalist societies on other members of the global system? What are the essential components of dependence that one must identify before constructing an adequate mea…
Polanyi in Brussels: Supranational Institutions and the Transnational Embedding of Markets
Many have argued that the success of European integration is predicated on reinforcing market structures and some have gone further to state that the creation of a transnational market results in a decoupling of markets from their national political and social frameworks, thus threatening to unravel historical social bargains. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi and John Ruggie and using their insights regarding the social embedding of markets, w…
International relations theory and multilateralism: The Search for Foundations
Why has the concept of multilateralism not played a more prominent role in theories of international relations? The prima facie case for the importance of multilateral activity in the international realm would seem great. The world, we constantly tell ourselves, is increasingly drawn together. The Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck argues that most external effects of production and consumption are external not only to the household but also to the…
Across the Great Divide: Integrating Comparative and International Politics
Research in comparative and international politics often deals with the same questions, such as the nature of war, the conduct of foreign economic policy, and the consequences of different political institutions. Yet there is a pronounced gap between these two subfields of political science. In neorealist theory, this gap is to be expected, since the structure of the international system cannot be reduced to facts about its component units. Given…
Institutionalism and the European Union: Beyond International Relations and Comparative Politics
The growing use of institutional analysis in the study of the European Union (EU) has improved EU scholarship and rendered it more integral to the discipline of political science. Institutionalist analyses differ regarding the theoretical role of institutions and actor preferences. We classify institutionalist approaches to the EU by their theoretical treatment (exogenous or endogenous) of institutions and preferences. Analyses at the research fr…
Industrialization in the Periphery: The Evolving Global Division of Labor
Journal Article Industrialization in the Periphery: The Evolving Global Division of Labor Get access James A. Caporaso James A. Caporaso Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 347–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600579 Published: 01 September 1981
Europe's Triple Crisis and the Uneven Role of Institutions: The Euro, Refugees and Brexit
Europe is currently embroiled in three ongoing and interacting crises concerning the eurozone, refugees and Brexit. After briefly describing each crisis, I turn to the ways in which they intersect and the role of institutions in solving the crises. There are two central themes in the paper. The first is that the three crises intersect and feed on one another. The second is that, while institutions can often help, they are not panaceas. Existing s…
Changes in the Westphalian Order: Territory, Public Authority, and Sovereignty
nature of concepts. All concepts are abstract. Indeed, root of word means to draw out or away from what Harry Eckstein called the relentless particularity of experience. Concepts attempt to draw together elements of concrete experience that can be grouped in a fruitful way, so as to improve our understanding. Thus, point is not to avoid abstraction, but to build fruitful concepts. Again, no one will disagree with so anodyne a statement. The chall…
Introduction to the special issue ofInternational Organizationon dependence and dependency in the global system
When the idea for this special number ofInternational Organizationfirst took shape, the theme was a rather general one, “asymmetric international relations.” I had hoped to encourage contributions from the areas of small state and client state behavior, dominance and dependence, imperialism, and great power—small power behavior. While all of these phenomena are tied together by a shared asymmetric property, this is a “bland common denominator” on…
Dependency theory: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development Studies
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Regional integration theory: Understanding Our Past and Anticipating Our Future
This article is a reflection on the field of European integration studies, a product of four years of collaboration within the 'Laguna Beach Project.' This project, co-organized by Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz, will be published as Supranational Governance: The Institutionalization of the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Three themes are explored in this article: the growing importance of institutions in the EU over…
Research Design, Falsification, and the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide
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Economic and Political Integration in Europe: A Time-Series Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Changes in political decision-making outputs and trading activities in the European Economic Community are examined around three quasi-experimental events (formation of the EEC in 1958, first agricultural package in 1962, and the agricultural crisis in 1965–66). On the basis of a preliminary analysis, nine variables were selected for inclusion in the study (three political decision variables and six trade indicators); these were then subjected to…
Still a regulatory state? The European Union and the financial crisis
The European Union (EU) has been conceptualized as a regulatory state, i.e., an emerging polity that differs from the classic Westphalian state. Unable to engage in redistribution and stabilization, the EU has specialized in a range of regulatory functions related to market creation and management of externalities. We argue that the European financial crisis is pushing the EU to move beyond regulation. We explore the origins of and responses to t…
The promises and pitfalls of an endogenous theory of institutional change: A comment
Contributors to this volume attempt to fashion an endogenous theory of institutional change. The main conceptual vehicle is the incomplete contract. Starting with the assumption that the various treaties of the European Union are contracts (agreements among states), contributors look to the ways in which ambiguities and gaps in these contracts, along with different interests among the institutional actors, create dynamic pressures for change. Dif…
The dual nature of European identity: Subjective Awareness and Coherence
We conceptualize European identity as a dual concept (subjective awareness and coherence) that contains both perceptual and behavioral components. We provide a set of indicators for European identity and analyze the data to assess changes in European identity over the last 50 years. Our goal is to offer a conceptual framework and method of assessing identity in an empirically sensitive way. Our findings show that EU citizens have multiple identit…
The new modes of governance and political authority in Europe
Theory and Method in the Study of International Integration
In many ways the study of international integration is in what Thomas Kuhn has called the pre-paradigm stage of the development of science. This stage is characterized by disagreement on the entities to be studied and the definitions, concepts, and indicators to be employed. Controversy is widespread even on the simplest of issues and, what is more discouraging, this controversy does not take place in a theoretical-methodological context which fa…
Domesticating discourses: European law, English judges, and political institutions
Political science research on Europeanization has focused too little on the domestic legal-constitutional implications of European legal integration. We address this relative neglect, identifying two models of the impact of European law on domestic judicial discourses and testing them against evidence on the invocation of three EU law concepts within English courts. Contrary to a statist model, which expects judicial discourses to correspond clos…
Comparative Politics: Diversity and Coherence
One striking difference between the fields of comparative politics and international relations concerns the relative proportion of theory versus empirical detail. In international relations, theories are organized around the distribution of power, strategic interaction, and the role of institutions, law, and morality. Comparative politics, by contrast, starts from the assumption that the anarchy problem has been solved and that domestic polities …
The External Consequences of Regional Integration for Pan-European Relations: Inequality, Dependence, Polarization, and Symmetry
Although there is a large literature on regional integration, very little of it focuses on its external consequences. During the early years of the development of the European Economic Community (EEC) the attention of scholars focused on the internal problems and consequences of integration. This paper explores some of the external consequences of integration, particularly inequality, dependence, polarization, and symmetry. Since these terms have…
The State's Role in Third World Economic Growth
The emergence of a group of newly industrializing countries has received considerable attention in the scholarly literature today. However, most of the attention has focused on the economic aspects of this phenomenon, for example, changing comparative advantages, utilization of cheap labor markets, and tariff structures. The role of the state in this process of industrial growth has been neglected. The state plays a role in economic growth in var…
Fisher's Test of Deutsch's Sociocausal Paradigm of Political Integration: A Research Note
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Encapsulated Integrative Patterns vs. Spillover: The Cases of Agricultural and Transport Integration in the European Economic Community
Journal Article Encapsulated Integrative Patterns vs. Spillover: The Cases of Agricultural and Transport Integration in the European Economic Community Get access James A. Caporaso James A. Caporaso Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 4, December 1970, Pages 361–394, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013492 Published: 01 December 1970
Europe's Would-Be Polity: Patterns of Change In the European Community. Leon N. Lindberg , Stuart A. Scheingold
Economic and Political Integration in Europe: A Time-Series Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Changes in political decision-making outputs and trading activities in the European Economic Community are examined around three quasi-experimental events (formation of the EEC in 1958, first agricultural package in 1962, and the agricultural crisis in 1965–66). On the basis of a preliminary analysis, nine variables were selected for inclusion in the study (three political decision variables and six trade indicators); these were then subjected to…
Theory and Method in the Study of International Integration
In many ways the study of international integration is in what Thomas Kuhn has called the pre-paradigm stage of the development of science. This stage is characterized by disagreement on the entities to be studied and the definitions, concepts, and indicators to be employed. Controversy is widespread even on the simplest of issues and, what is more discouraging, this controversy does not take place in a theoretical-methodological context which fa…
Fisher's Test of Deutsch's Sociocausal Paradigm of Political Integration: A Research Note
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The External Consequences of Regional Integration for Pan-European Relations: Inequality, Dependence, Polarization, and Symmetry
Although there is a large literature on regional integration, very little of it focuses on its external consequences. During the early years of the development of the European Economic Community (EEC) the attention of scholars focused on the internal problems and consequences of integration. This paper explores some of the external consequences of integration, particularly inequality, dependence, polarization, and symmetry. Since these terms have…
The External Relations of The European Community
The European Community (EC) has been in existence for over twenty years and its permanence is no longer seriously questioned. This recognition of the EC as a permanent component of the global system is partially acknowledged by the shift of scholarly research from the internal problems of Community development to its external relations. Here a number of important questions are unre solved : Is the EC a coherent global actor or only an arena where…
Dependence, dependency, and power in the global system: A Structural and Behavioral Analysis
Although there is already a huge literature on dependence in international relations, many fundamental conceptual issues remain unresolved. Is the pattern of dependence of advanced industrial states on one another different in kind or only in degree from the dependence of peripheral capitalist societies on other members of the global system? What are the essential components of dependence that one must identify before constructing an adequate mea…
Introduction to the special issue ofInternational Organizationon dependence and dependency in the global system
When the idea for this special number ofInternational Organizationfirst took shape, the theme was a rather general one, “asymmetric international relations.” I had hoped to encourage contributions from the areas of small state and client state behavior, dominance and dependence, imperialism, and great power—small power behavior. While all of these phenomena are tied together by a shared asymmetric property, this is a “bland common denominator” on…
The European community in the world system: Prolegomena to a political economy of the European community
Dependency theory: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development Studies
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Industrialization in the Periphery: The Evolving Global Division of Labor
Journal Article Industrialization in the Periphery: The Evolving Global Division of Labor Get access James A. Caporaso James A. Caporaso Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 347–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600579 Published: 01 September 1981
The State's Role in Third World Economic Growth
The emergence of a group of newly industrializing countries has received considerable attention in the scholarly literature today. However, most of the attention has focused on the economic aspects of this phenomenon, for example, changing comparative advantages, utilization of cheap labor markets, and tariff structures. The role of the state in this process of industrial growth has been neglected. The state plays a role in economic growth in var…
The Global Factory: Foreign Assembly in International Trade.Joseph Grunwald , Kenneth Flamm
The Assault on Global Education
Who has the right and responsibility to determine the content of education about foreign affairs? Should the Department of Education (DOE) seek to influence what the schools and universities teach? These questions are the subject of a smoldering debate sparked by the regional office of the DOE in Denver, Colorado. Answers to them would tell us a great deal about the environment for making foreign policy. There can be no doubt that in the United S…
Introduction to a Special Issue on the State in Comparative and International Perspective
Power in World Politics
Explores power relationships in world politics, focusing on what power is and what it is not, on the ways in which power has been assessed, and on the major lessons for international politics that can be gleaned through an analysis of power.
In the Dominions of Debt: Historical Perspective on Dependent Development. Herman M. Schwartz
“And still it moves!” State interests and social forces in the European Community
Over the last several years, world politics has entered into a period of transition that rivals in depth and scope the changes of the immediate postwar era. These changes intrigue many observers all the more since they materialized from orderly and otherwise unexceptional processes rather than among the convulsive aftershocks of war. Nowhere do the effects of these changes stand out more clearly than in Europe.
Neoclassical political economy
The time since the publication of Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present day spans over two hundred years. Although there are important elements of continuity from Smith to the present world, neoclassical economics is not just a modern, updated version of classical political economy. The beginnings of the neoclassical system are placed in the 1870s with the rise of marginalist economics. Be…
Theories of Political Economy
'Political economy' has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks for understanding the relationship between politics and economics, including the classical, Marxian, Keynesian, neoclassical, state-centred, power-cent…
Report of the Treasurer of the American Political Science Association, 1991–92
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Theories of political economy
International relations theory and multilateralism: The Search for Foundations
Why has the concept of multilateralism not played a more prominent role in theories of international relations? The prima facie case for the importance of multilateral activity in the international realm would seem great. The world, we constantly tell ourselves, is increasingly drawn together. The Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck argues that most external effects of production and consumption are external not only to the household but also to the…
Report of the Treasurer
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