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Introduction: European Integration and National Political Systems Simon Hix and Klaus H. Goetz European integration and domestic political change - European integration should be analyzed as an explanatory factor in domestic political continuity or change - The study of national political systems has evolved largely in isolation from the study of European integration for three main reasons: 1. the separation has been a natural product of a division of labor in the discipline of political science: between comparative politics, with its focus on domestic political institutions and processes, and international relations, with its focus on international regimes and regional integration 2. Many scholars of comparative European politics have taken a healthily skeptical attitude to the study of European integration - as either a normative project or as not contributing much to generalisable political science knowledge 3. as long as the empirical impact of European integration on national politics was seemingly small, it could be ignored as a...

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