This work examines the impact of Europeanization on the domestic politics of EU member states, focusing on agricultural policy, cohesion policy and employment policy with a detailed case study on Italy in a comparative perspective.

This cutting-edge handbook, written by foremost authoritative scholars, presents the main theoretical and empirical issues involved in current Europeanization research. It evaluates the achievements and shortcomings of the growing literature. As an advanced reference book it also sets the parameters for Europeanization research in the coming years.