@article{83411,
  author = {Stephen Chaudoin and Helen V. Milner and Xun Pang},
  title = {National Policy Autonomy and the Moderating Effects of Supranational Organizations},
  abstract = { <p>
	<a href="http://www.isanet.org/Publications/ISQ/Posts/ID/5002/European-Union-Member-States-in-Cross-National-Analyses-The-Dangers-of-Neglecting-Supranational-Policymaking">Joseph Weinberg{\textquoteright}s piece</a>~highlights an important substantive and methodological question: how to analyze, theoretically and methodologically, differences in national policy autonomy among countries and across policy areas in the~era of globalization or regional integration.~ EU membership constrains the policy autonomy of member states, which can change the relationship between the explanatory variables of interest and the outcome variable.~ As Weinberg argues, {\textquotedblleft}While a particular set of independent variables may explain outcomes in sovereign countries, those same variables would have little explanatory power where decisions are made by a supranational body{\textquotedblright} (5). We agree wholeheartedly that, if membership in a supranational institution constrains certain policy outcomes, then researchers should account for that in their theoretical and empirical models.~ We disagree, however, on the solution. In particular, we show how multi-level models have important advantages in modelling this phenomenon, compared to the split-sample regressions in his piece.
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  year = {2016},
  journal = {International Studies Quarterly},
  volume = {2016},
  month = {09/2016},
  url = {http://www.isanet.org/Publications/ISQ/Posts/ID/5328/National-Policy-Autonomy-and-the-Moderating-Effects-of-Supranational-Organizations},
  language = {eng},
}