Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Buhari-Gulmez Didem
    Ombudsmanship and Turkey's Europeanization in ‘World Society’
    in Journal of Contemporary European Studies , vol. 19, n. 4, december ,  2011 ,  475-487
    ABSTRACT: This article investigates Europeanization in a candidate country from a macro-sociological perspective. From the point of view of sociology, extant Europeanization studies treat culture only in a reductionist manner. In particular, ‘sender-receiver’ models overlook the domestic perceptions that translate, vernacularize or reframe exogenous conditionality. Furthermore, ‘goodness of fit’ approaches ‘bringing domestic agency back in’ misleadingly reinforce the image that the domestic and the external spheres are easily separated. By studying the ombudsmanship reform in Turkey, the article concludes that: (1) the content of Europeanization is not purely European; (2) the role for domestic norm entrepreneurs in leading cultural change is variable and constrained; and (3) domestic motivations for Europeanization include exogenous factors trespassing upon EU conditionality, that is, global culture/world society.
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