Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

"Europeanisation in new member and candidate states"

Ulrich Sedelmeier

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Research questions
	2.1	Extent and nature of the EU’s impact
	2.2	Conditions for the EU’s impact: mediating factors
	2.3	Theoretical framework: alternative institutionalist approaches to the EU’s impact
	2.4	Rationalist institutionalism
	2.5	Constructivist institutionalism
3	Empirical findings: EU impact across issue areas
	3.1	Impact on the polity
	3.2	Impact on politics
	3.3	Policy Impact
4	Conclusion: gaps and new directions
	4.1	Gaps in the literature
	4.2	New directions
5	Acknowledgements
	References