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Italy’s Policy Towards European Monetary Integration: "Bringing Ideas Back in?".
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Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association . 2004 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, p1-23. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This article deals with Italy?s policy towards European monetary integration over the period 1978-99 addressing the questions of whether, how and which ?ideas? influenced Italian policy-makers? choices. This theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis argues that cognitive and normative elements, encompassing both ?economic ideas? and ?foreign policy beliefs?, bring significant added value in explaining the ?Italian road? to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Secondly, economic ideas alone do not explain Italian policy-makers? choices and, whenever different cognitive factors pulled in opposite directions, it was pro-European foreign policy beliefs that eventually prevailed in shaping policy. Thirdly, both foreign policy beliefs and economic ideas represent an intriguing case of the Europeanisation of the Italian elites and the impact that such processes had on the trajectory of the country within the Euroepan Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 16025859
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/apsa_proceeding_29521.PDF