The Limits of Normalization

Taking Stock of theEU‐USComparative Literature

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6282330
AutoresPier Domenico Tortola (0000-0003-4865-572X, Centro Studi sul Federalismo Collegio Carlo Alberto Italy, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen52
Número6
Páginas1342-1357
Fecha de publicación2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jcms.12143
OpenAlexW2115179519
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas53

This article contributes to the research on the normalization ofEuropeanUnion (EU) studies by presenting an analysis and assessment of theEU‐UScomparative literature. Using an original and comprehensive data set of 104 publications, it shows not only that these comparisons have grown considerably since the early 1990s, but also and more interestingly thatEU‐USscholarship itself has increasingly conformed to mainstream political science by becoming more diverse, causal in nature and empirically inclusive. Unlike other accounts of normalization, however, it is argued here that these transformations are only partly desirable, and that a better direction for the future is to developEU‐USresearch as a distinct programme withinEUstudies, centred on a ‘dual mission’ – theoretical and empirical – that accepts political science's scope and explanatory objectives, but at the same time sees the two cases as worthy of being studied in isolation owing to their importance and the political value of their comparison

Economics · Mainstream · Normalization (sociology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies