Federalism Swot Analysis

I. Functional- Federalism

Functional- Federalism is a regime where the individuals organize themselves in a pattern of overlapping jurisdictions that are without explicit ranking, with each jurisdiction responsible for the provision of a specific class of public goods. However, the one who receives the services to seek and move to the juris diction that best meets its preferences, it is not the user. It is the latter that is capable to make its offer of goods and services to the citizen without obliging him to change the place of residence. unctional federalism is based on a territory division into jurisdictions that are defined as a democratic governmental unit with authority over its citizens, including the power to tax. Each jurisdiction

Non-state actors are important in international politics and the European Commission was the most important non-state international actor. The Commission was expected to be in the position to manipulate both international and domestic pressures on the national governments to advance the process of European integration, even where governments might be reluctant. The neofunctionalists predicted an inexorable progress to further integration but this was all predicated on an internal dynamic, and implicitly assumed that the international background conditions would remain

Other influences were government officials and the electoral considerations of the party or parties in office. The goverrments of states were powerful for two reasons. The first one is because they possessed legal sovereignty. The second reason is because they had a political legitimacy as the only democratically elected actors in the integration process. The power in these international organizations is posessed by the states and decisions are made by a unanimous voting.

IV. Liberal Intergovernmentalism

The analytical framework of this theory was applied by Moravcsik in the year 1998 who made five key case studies in the construction of the EU:
“ •the negotiation of the Treaties of Rome (1955–58); • the consolidation of the common market and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (1958–83); • the setting up of the fi rst experiment in monetary co-operation and of the European Monetary System (EMS) (1969–83); •the negotiation of the Single European Act (SEA) (1984–88); •the negotiation of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) (1988–91).