VL IB: European Policy Making

Explaining European Integration

What is social spillover?

  • Community environment = facilitates cooperative decision-making and consensus formation and thus contributes to more integrative results
  • Steady growth of working groups / committees: complex system of bureaucratic interpenetration that brings thousands of national and EU civil servants in frequent contact with each other on a recurrent basis
  • Underlying assumption: duration and intensity of interaction have a positive bearing on socialization and learning processes

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