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38 J. Common Mkt. Stud. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/jcmks38 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 38, No. 1 March 2000 pp. 1-23 Sub-National Mobilization and European Integration: Does it Make Any Difference? CHARLIE JEFFERY University of Birmingham Abstract Work on multi-level governance has refashioned conceptions in political science of EU politics and policy-making, giving due weight for the first time to the importance of sub-national actors. This article builds on the pioneering contributions on multi-level governance by Gary Marks and others to develop a framework for analysis rooted in the functions of sub-national authorities in their domestic political contexts. This domestic politics approach to multi- level governance is then developed, through consideration of a series of variables, to address a question which has rarely been posed hitherto: do the EU-focused activities of sub-national governments actually make any differ- ence in the structure of authoritative decision-making in the EU? I. Introduction The 1990s have seen intense discussion of the role of sub-national authorities (SNAs)1 in European integration. A burgeoning literature (e.g. Hooghe, 1996a; Jeffery, 1997a; Keating, 1998; Le Gales and Lequesne, 1998) has emerged around what has been termed 'sub-national mobilisation' (Hooghe, 1995) in the European Union: the growing engagement of sub-national governmental actors ' A term conceived as covering all sub-national governmental authorities at local, intermediate or regional levels. I am grateful for the terminology to Bomberg and Peterson (1998). @ Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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