Stone Sweet Research Articles

On National Courts, European Law and Constitutions: Dialogue and Conflict

Books reviewed in this article:A.‐M. Slaughter, A. Stone Sweet, J.H.H. Weiler (eds), Legal Change in Its Social Context

Institutionalism, Intergovernmentalism and European Integration: A Review Article

Books reviewed in this article:W. Sandholtz and A. Stone Sweet (eds), European Integration and Supranational GovernanceK. Armstrong and S. Bulmer, The Governance of the Single European MarketA. Moravcsik, The Choice For Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht

Book ReviewsImmanuel Kant, .Critique of Practical Reason. Edited and translated by, Mary Gregor, with an introduction by, Andrews Reath. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, ed., Karl Ameriks and Desmond M. Clarke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxvi+145. $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Immanuel Kant, . Critique of Practical Reason. Edited and translated by, Mary Gregor, with an introduction by, Andrews Reath. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, ed., Karl Ameriks and Desmond M. Clarke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxvi+145. $44.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).Carol W. Voeller Carol W. VoellerIllinois Wesleyan University Search for more articles by this author Illinois Wesleyan UniversityPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 109, Number 2January 1999 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/233907 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Alec Stone Sweet, Eric Palmer A Kantian System of Constitutional Justice: Rights, Trusteeship, Balancing, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2017).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2919724

Trapped in the supranational-intergovernmental dichotomy: a response to Stone Sweet and Sandholtz

This article is a critical response to an article by Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz in the September 1997 issue of this journal in which they put forward a theory of European integration focused on supranational governance. We argue that this theory fails to address the key problem in current theorizing, namely the persistence of a supranational-intergovernmental dichotomy which dictates that integration is driven by either supranational institutions or national governments. As a result, we argue that supranational governance is essentially a mirror image of the liberal intergovernmentalist theory which it criticizes, and demonstrate that, by reducing integration to a particular form of governance, it fails to allow for different forms of integration in different policy domains. Instead, we propose that the focus of current theorizing on European integration be shifted away from institutional characteristics and toward processes of interaction and policy characteristics.

European integration and supranational governance revisited: rejoinder to Branch and Ohrgaard

We published 'European integration and supranational governance' (Stone Sweet and Sandholtz 1997) knowing that the piece could not stand entirely on its own. Being an abridged introduction to a forthcoming book and the product of intensive collaboration with a small group over several years, it suffers from its removal from the contextual richness of the greater project. Nonetheless, we did our best to survey the theoretical materials at play, and we tried to express the group's concerns for process, historical sequencing, and logics of institutionalization, and our collective distrust of deterministic explanations of the subject matter. Still, the article races across too much terrain, too fast, too abstractly . We have responded to Branch and Ohrgaard's criticisms, with some reservations. Given that the volume is now in print (Sandholtz and Stone Sweet 1998), readers may be better served by consulting the book directly . As it is, this exchange will likely remain trapped, not in the 'supranational-intergovernmental dichotomy' that our critics so fervently imagined, but in arid abstraction, again divorced from the empirical richness of our research. Further, in this reply our energies are too often devoted to correcting misrepresentations of our ideas. As Branch and Ohrgaard have fixed the priorities of this exchange, we address the main theoretical (I), measurement (II), and methodological (III) issues they have raised; and we conclude with a comment on the alleged 'mirror-image' of intergovernmentalism and our theory (IV). To save space and to avoid unnecessary repetition, we assume familiarity with our original article.

The liberalization and reregulation of air transport

We seek to explain the transfer of competence to govern, from national to supranational authorities, in air transport. We ask two questions. First, how and why did air transport come on to the European legislative agenda? Second, why did member state governments agree to divest themselves of control at the national level? In responding to these questions, we at times focus on the Council of Ministers, and therefore on intergovernmental stages of the legislative process. Such a focus, however, need not entail adopting intergovernmentalist theories of integration. On the contrary, our case study broadly supports theoretical arguments developed by Stone Sweet and Sandholtz (1997), and corroborates recent research on the origins and evolution of supranational governance. We find that the intensity of transnational exchange and the pro-integrative behaviour of the European Community's (EC's) supranational organizations not only generated the context in which intergovernmental bargaining took place, but provoked the emergence of supranational governance.

The Power of Identity: Politics in a New Key

After a long period of neglect, political scientists are again noticing identity politics. Hoover's book is beautifully written, brief by comprehensive, and appropriate for a wide range of undergraduate courses. Most impressive, Hoover links micro-level processes (human development and the construction of individual identities) with macro-politics (the formation and maintenance of organized systems of power), examining, among other topics, gender, multiculturalism, and the sources and consequences of democracy and authoritarianism. (Alec Stone Sweet University of California, Irvine).

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Regional integration theory: understanding our past and anticipating our future

ABSTRACT 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 time; the changing relevance of different theories, especially reflected in the increasing importance of comparative politics approaches; and an assessment of the current theoretical debate, contrasting several competing theories with the approach outlined in the book. While the EU has experienced profound changes over the last five decades, it is often unnoticed that its scholarly counterpart has changed in important ways too.