Toward Responsive Governance? National Elections and European Cooperation
Christina J. Schneider
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
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Conflict, Negotiations, and EU Enlargement
Christina J. Schneider
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Endorsements
"Christina Schneider's study of the process and outcomes of EU accession is a model of modern political economy research. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods with a rigorous theoretical approach grounded in the analysis of distributional conflict, she provides a thoroughly convincing account of the sources and dimensions of differentiated integration."
Lisa L. Martin, Harvard University
"Christina Schneider has written a remarkably wide-ranging and analytically deep and compelling analysis of EU enlargement. Carefully dissecting the many and complex distributional battles involved in successive enlargement rounds and pondering their implications, her work stands out as one of the best studies on a central aspect of European integration - methodologically sophisticated, thorough, and original."
Walter Mattli, Oxford University
"Rational choice approaches cannot explain the dynamics of EU integration and especially EU enlargement - so they say. Christina Schneider's book consigns this statement to the realms of fantasy. She forcefully demonstrates that the contrary is true: EU enlargement leads to distributional conflicts which are only predicted by rationalist approaches to EU integration. This volume is an essential reading for anyone interested in political integration and international conflict."
Thomas Pluemper, University of Essex
"Christina Schneider's analysis of distributional bargaining and discrimination adds a missing piece to the enlargement puzzle. A major step ahead in theorizing the expansion of the European Union."
Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zurich
