The 1992 Single Market Program and the Interests of Business

Fligstein, Neil; Brantley, Peter

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“…The problem, of course, is that if all firms could protect their home markets, trade would be stifled. In practice what this has meant is that the integration of markets across national borders has been led by firms who will be net gainers and opposed by firms who are net losers (Fligstein and Brantley 1995). So, we observe that some goods and services are highly traded while others are not.…”

Section: Traders and Exchangementioning

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Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration

Fligstein

Sweet

2002

American Journal of Sociology

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As institutions and governance structures develop in modern markets, they tend to "feed back" onto economic activity. Through such feedback loops, market and political arenas can develop symbiotically into relatively coherent "fields" that gradually embed actors' orientations and activities. Using these insights, this article develops and tests a theory of European integration focusing on the case of the European Community, the first pillar of the European Union. Traders, organized interests, courts, and the EC's policy-making organs, over time, have produced a self-sustaining causal system that has driven the construction of the European market and polity. The generality of this explanation to a sociology of markets and polity-building projects is discussed in the conclusion.

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Section: Traders and Exchangementioning

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Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration

Fligstein

Sweet

2002

American Journal of Sociology

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“…Those who transacted across borders actively pressured governments and the EC's organizations to remove national barriers to further economic exchange (negative integration), and to regulate, in the form of European legislation (positive integration), the emerging Common Market (Mattli, 1999;Moravscik, 1993;Stone Sweet and Brunell, 1998a;Scharpf, 1996). Certain groups, like large export-oriented firms, have benefited more from market integration than have smaller non-exporting firms (Fligstein and Brantley, 1995); and some believe that integration has contributed to the erosion of national systems of social welfare and interest representation (e.g. Schmitter and Streek, 1991).…”

Section: H S -Alec Stone Sweet / European Integration and The Legalmentioning

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European Integration and the Legal System

Sweet

2003

The State of the European Union, 6

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In this paper, I chart the evolution of the European Community, combining three different perspectives. First, I examine the major features of the integration process since 1959. The evidence shows that European market and polity developed symbiotically, as the activities of economic actors, organized interests, litigators and judges, and the EC's legislative and regulatory organs became linked, creating a self-sustaining, dynamic system. Second, I provide an overview of the 'constitutionalization' of the treaty system, and survey the activities of the European Court. Among other things, constitutionalization secured property rights for transnational market actors, expanded the discretionary powers of national judges, and reduced the EC's intergovernmental character. Third, I examine in detail the impact of the adjudicating the Rome Treaty's free movement of goods provisions (Art. 28-30) on the market building and political integration.

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“…It is useful to consider which owners and managers of firms came to support the SMP. Survey data showed that managers of firms who were already involved in exporting were the most favorable toward the SMP (Fligstein and Brantley 1995). These managers felt that their costs of production would be less, their markets larger, and therefore that their firm and country would fare better under the SMP.…”

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How to Make a Market: Reflections on the Attempt to Create a Single Market in the European Union

Fligstein¹,

Mara-Drita²

1996

American Journal of Sociology

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Theories about institution-building episodes emphasize either rational or social and cultural elements. Our research on the Single Market Program (SMP) of the European Union (EU) shows that both elements are part of the process. When the EU was caught in a stalemate, the European Commission devised the SMP. The commission worked within the constraints of existing institutional arrangements, provided a "cultural frame," and helped create an elite social movement. This examination of the SMP legislation, using an institutional approach to the sociology of markets, shows how the commission was able to do this by trading off the interests of important state and corporate actors. 1 An earlier version of this article was prepared for the meeting of the European Community Studies Association in Washington, D.C., May 1993. We have benefited from comments given at a presentation at the Center for Western European Studies at Stanford University. We would also like to thank Richard Lempert, Doug McAdam, Andrew Moravcsik, and Richard Swedberg for comments. We have also been helped by comments from the AJS reviewers.

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The 1992 Single Market Program and the Interests of Business

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration

Constructing Polities and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration

European Integration and the Legal System

How to Make a Market: Reflections on the Attempt to Create a Single Market in the European Union

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