American Journal of Sociology
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Опубликовано на портале: 22-05-2004
Neil Fligstein, Alec S. Sweet
American Journal of Sociology.
2002.
Vol. 107.
No. 5.
P. 1206-1243.
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.
