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European Integration, Reading 7: Enrico Spolaore, What Is European…

- - - - the European Commission, Parliament, and Court of Justice
- - - - if one are is benefit you spillover to get more benefit
      - work through learning
      - changing people’s preferences
        
        “endogenous” convergence of values and norms
      - generating problems and crises
    - - when you do not get the benefits (fee is too high, buracraties,payment system is hard)
  - - - Germany only accepts the supremacy of EU law insofar as it is consistent with fundamental German rights
    - - the unwarranted expectation that gradual integration can continue unabated when moving to areas with much higher heterogeneity costs.
        
        the lack of a realistic assessment of the increasing costs
        
        high costs become politically prohibitive
        
        there is no guarantee that regional integration in economic areas should lead to political unification down the road
- - - - economies of scale in the provision of federal public goods
        
        the ability to internalize positive and negative externalities over a large area
        
        provide insurance against asymmetric shocks that only affect some of its regions
    - - people may have very different views and preferences
        
        ethnolinguistic polarization is associated with civil conflict
        
        cultural diversity have significant effects on policy outcomes, redistribution, and the provision of public
  - - - interactions over rival goods, not public goods
- - - - spillover