VL IB: European Policy Making

Explaining European Integration

What is political spillover?

  • Integrative pressures exerted by national elites termed political spillover in the literature
  • There are integrative pressures stemming from altered perceptions of political parties, business and professional associations, trade unions, other interest groups
  • Integration in a particular sector leads relevant interest groups to move a part of their activity to a higher level of aggregation and to gradually shift their focus / expectations to European institutions

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