Europeizacija nacionalnih politika: koncept i istraživački pristup
Europeanisation of National Policies: the Concept and the Research Approach

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between the European Union and the national state, in a theoretical explanation of the integration process, can be viewed from a bottom-up and a top-down perspective. The first perspective explains the process and direction of the institutional development, that is, the integration itself, while the second perspective looks at the changes in national states caused by the influence of European institutions, political processes and specific policies, i.e., the issue of Europeanisation. In the study of various cases of changes at the level of national states under the influence of Europeanisation, the neoinstitutionalist approach proves to be very adequate, especially in its derivative as historical institutionalism. It most adequately captures the whole complexity of the relationships between structures, actors and the historical context in the integration process, and enables an assessment and explanation of their individual contribution to effectuated (non)changes. Theoretical conceptualisation of adaptation pressure, as an explanatory mechanism for the direction and scope of changes at the national level, points to two logics of behaviour of actors and institutions: the rationalist logic of pursuing a goal in the process of redistribution of resources, and the sociological logic of consent through a process of learning and socialisation.

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