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Published online 10 October 2018 ; We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels to guide our analysis. Each of these corresponds to a series of mechanisms in three distinct institutional arenas: judiciary, bureaucracy and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures that allow us to investigate how changes in these three arenas interact with each other and what sequence of changes yields increases in state capacity. The yearly data set covers all the 17 candidate countries to join the European Union (EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Deep integration, we find, can induce broad institutional change by providing incentives for simultaneous change in core state institutions. Bureaucratic independence and judicial capacity seem to be the key engine of the process engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Yet early and abrupt removal of external anchors might generate significant backsliding, or reversals, in domestic institutional change. ; EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and DemonstrationEuropean Union (EU)

When examining the relationship between globalization & politics, three steps must be taken. First, a clear definition & analysis of globalization must be presented. Second, the relationship between global trends, politics, & governance must be considered by investigating the power relationship between states & international organizations; examining institutional reforms; considering the promotion of the liberal state; & examining international-level institutional developments. Finally, it is essential to look at power within the globalization process itself. When each of these elements is considered, it becomes evident that drastic transformations in the realm of governance & power have not necessarily taken place as a result of globalization. Indeed, it can be argued that globalization processes represent merely a political evolution rather than a revolution. Meanwhile, it must be recognized that the process of globalization is far from complete. K. A. Larsen

"December 1981." ; At head of title: Committee print. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The main question raised in this article is how educational reforms reflect convergence or divergence between the English, the Norwegian and the Swedish educational systems. We claim that the answer depends on how convergence is conceptualised. At the level of decisions on tools, the countries seem more similar than two decades ago. However, to explain policy changes our analytical perspective must be broadened. We demonstrate how values based on different welfare state models, political economies and different types of institutional evolution can explain processes of change in education over the last decades. In paying attention to broader processes of change, a certain degree of variation occurs. The countries seem to develop according to nationally specific trajectories: England has strengthened the liberal and elitist values of education while social democratic values of comprehensiveness and equality have impact on the aims and effects of policy tools in Norway and Sweden. Adapted from the source document.

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