Chapter 6 Neofunctionalism

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Chapter 6 Neofunctionalism

• Cini (ed.) European Union Politics, 2nd edition
• OUP Online Teaching Resources

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Structure of the Lecture

• What is neofunctionalism?
• Supranationalism and spillover
• Critiques of neofunctionalism
• Revival of neofunctionalism

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Neofunctionalism

• Introduced by Ernst B. Haas in The Uniting of
  Europe Political, Social and Economic Forces
  1950-1957
• Three characteristics Spillover, Societal
  groups, Elitist approach
• Popular in the 1950s and 1960s, obsolete in the
  1970s, and revived from the 1980s and 1990s

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Supranationalism Spillover

• Elite Socialisation the formation of
  supranational interest group Europeanized
• Neofunctionalism Vs Federalism

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Critiques of Neofunctionalism

• Criticism at an empirical level
• The absence of political integration during the
  1970s (no longer fitted with the reality of the
  EC)
• Criticism at a theoretical ground
• Community method European integration as an
  elite affair (Risse) ? Undemocratic,
  Integration by stealth
• Importance of the international dimension of
  integration (Keohane and Nye)
• Role of the nation state at the integration
  process

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Critiques of Neofunctionalism

• References for the criticism of neofunctionalism
• Haas (1975, 1976), Moravcsik (1993, 1998, 2005),
  Taylor (1990, 1993), Keohane and Nye (1975),
  Keohane and Hoffman (1991), and Schmitter (2005)

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Revival of Neofunctionalism

• Reasons for a revival of neofunctionalism in the
  1990s
• The Single European Act (SEA) the creation of
  the single market
• New approach such as transaction-based theory
  (Stone Sweet Sandholtz)
• Neofunctionalism Vs Intergovernmentalism