TY - JOUR A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Jacquot, Sophie T1 - Usage of European Integration - Europeanisation from a Sociological Perspective JF - European Integration online Papers (EIoP) N2 - The effect of European integration on its member states constitutes the new research agenda within the study of European integration. Marked by the "the institutionalist turn" of Anglo-Saxon political sciences, the most dominant theories on europeanisation focus on structural arrangements. Institutional incompatibility between the European and the national level, so the hypothesis, creates pressures for change. Actors are often only considered as mediators of these pressures. Consequentially, few approaches try to explain adaptational change initiated by policy actors in the absence of institutional pressures. Using a political sociology approach, the central concern of this paper is to insist on the political discretion of national actors in translation of European requirements. We believe that understanding not only "adaptation to" but also "usage of" the process of European integration is important to understanding the transformation of European member states. By insisting on usage, we aim at analysing both the strategic interaction of rational actors with the European institutions and the more sociological effect of "usage" - as "daily practice" - on the interest and identities of the actors. Y1 - 2003 UR - https://ssrn.com/abstract=485983 N1 - Also translated and published as: “Implementarea conceptului de integrare europeana sau europenizarea din perspectiva sociologica,” Studii de securitate Vol. 2 No. 3, 2004. VL - 7 IS - 12 ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Jacquot, Sophie A1 - Woll, Cornelia ED - Jacquot, Sophie ED - Woll, Cornelia T1 - Les usages de l’Europe : acteurs et transformations européennes N2 - Comment s'impose l'Europe? Par sa production législative et politique uniquement ou également grâce aux divers usages qui en sont faits? Ce livre s'attache à analyser qui s'implique dans l'intégration européenne, comment et dans quels buts. En mettant en évidence le rôle des acteurs en tant que vecteurs de transformations et en développant la notion d'usages de l'Europe, ce travail collectif entend apporter une perspective supplémentaire à l'agenda des recherches sur l'européanisation et l'impact de l'intégration européenne. Y1 - 2004 SN - 9782747564991 PB - L’Harmattan CY - Paris ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Jacquot, Sophie T1 - Using Europe: Strategic action in multi-level politics JF - Comparative European Politics N2 - This article examines the importance of action-theoretical considerations in European studies. By outlining the notion of ‘usage’ of the European Union, we argue for a more systematically sociological consideration of strategic action in the study of European transformations. The recent turns towards constructivism and comparative political sociology allow analyzing the rationality of political actors without falling in the trap of overly reductionist rational choice assumptions. Concentrating on intentional action helps to reveal the importance of three aspects of the multi-level polity: (1) informal and non-constraining procedures; (2) the effects of ways in which actors move in between the different levels of the European political system; and (3) the ambiguous and often surprising coalitions that come together despite often considerable disagreement over their final goals. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2010.7 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 110 EP - 126 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Jacquot, Sophie T1 - Action publique Européenne : les acteurs stratégiques face a l'Europe T1 - A Sociological Perspective on Strategic Action in European Integration JF - Politique européenne N2 - Cet article s'intéresse à l'influence de la sociologie dans l'analyse de l'action publique européenne. Nous revenons notamment sur la notion "d'usage" que nous avons développée auparavant et plaidons pour une prise en compte plus systématique de l'action stratégique dans l'analyse des transformations européennes. Nous analysons les évolutions récentes des études européennes vers une prise en compte plus systématique de l'imbrication sociale des acteurs, ce qui permet d'étudier leur rationalité sans tomber dans certains pièges des approches du choix rationnel trop réductrices. L'analyse de l'action intentionnée permet de mettre en lumière trois dimensions spécifiques des transformations européennes : (1) les processus non contraignants et informels, (2) les effets de la circulation des acteurs entre les différents niveaux du système européen, et (3) l’importance des coalitions ambiguës et parfois inattendues qui se forment, souvent malgré des divergences profondes sur les objectifs à atteindre. N2 - Many have noted that European integration theory has moved beyond the theoretical divide between inter-governmentalists and neo-functionalists that marked the 1990s. While some authors simply abandoned theoretical frameworks to concentrate on empirical puzzles, others adopted positions stemming from international relations theory or comparative political science. The most important paradigmatic divide in European Union studies now seems to be between rationalists and constructivists, or rational choice institutionalists and more sociological perspectives on the study of European integration that focus on the role of ideas and representation in the evolution of institutional settings. This paper surveys recent studies that have adopted the latter perspective while at the same time concentrating on the strategic decision making of intentional actors at the center of rational choice approaches. By studying the contributions of such a middle-ground perspective to the study of Europeanization in particular, we argue against a dichotomy between rational and constructivist approaches and highlight the centrality of fluid coalition patterns and power relationships in the study of the European Union. Y1 - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.025.0161 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 161 EP - 192 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Jacquot, Sophie ED - Woll, Cornelia ED - Jacquot, Sophie T1 - Usages et travail politiques : une sociologie compréhensive des usages de l’intégration européenne T2 - Les usages de l’Europe acteurs et transformations européennes Y1 - 2004 SP - 1 EP - 27 PB - L'Harmattan CY - Paris ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Woll, Cornelia A1 - Jacquot, Sophie ED - Woll, Cornelia ED - Jacquot, Sophie T1 - Conclusion T2 - Les usages de l’Europe acteurs et transformations européennes Y1 - 2004 SN - 9782747564991 SP - 293 EP - 296 PB - L'Harmattan CY - Paris ER -