A Critique To: Raunio’s Why European Integration Increases Leadership Autonomy within Political Parties
A Critique To: Raunio’s Why European Integration Increases Leadership Autonomy within Political Parties

Author(s): Fisnik Korenica, Dren Doli
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Group for Legal and Political Studies
Keywords: Centralization of authority; Leadership autonomy; Governing system; EU institutions; Decision-making; Party politics; National institutions;
Summary/Abstract: A critique to the paper of: Tapio Raunio, Why European Integration Increases Leadership Autonomy within Political Parties (Party Politics 2002; Vol. 8, no. 4; pp.405-422) This review article is aimed at criticizing the logic of argumentation brought up by Raunio at the above-shown paper. In general, the idea of finding the logics on which the party elites‟ centralization takes place is more than a general conception, rather than a strictly or narrowly measured one. Therefore we will be criticizing the strict way of considering the phenomenon that Raunio has chosen to follow; instead we argue that the way of explaining the phenomenon in discussion can only be built if choosing a multi-dimensional approach. As a result of our critique we conclude that Raunio‟s argumentation lacks both organizational but also functional understandings, whereas we propose and argue on the methodological approach that should be followed if intending to explain this phenomenon, in addition to the critical explanation upon the theoretical model that Raunio builds.

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