ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1990s, a rich Europeanization research agenda has developed to understand and explain the impact of the European Union (EU) on domestic politics. This literature expanded the analytical toolkit of European studies researchers to analyse the causal mechanisms intervening between the EU and domestic levels. Yet, recent developments in and around the EU, in the form of contestation over the EU or of distancing from the EU’s institutional or normative structures, has led scholars to conclude that the Europeanization perspective might be part of the ‘good weather literature’ (Paterson 2010; Saurugger 2014a). Hence, its explanatory strength might be limited to analysing the EU’s impact only, or mainly, during ‘good times’.
