Craig Parsons

Senior Researcher - ARENA Centre for European Studies
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Academic interests

Parsons' scholarly work investigates the ideas and institutions that came together to construct today's Europe; comparisons between the European Union and American federalism; how divisive issues like the authority of the EU affect political parties and democratic representation; and some thorny questions in the philosophy of science and qualitative methodology.

His main current research considers how and why the EU has constructed a "Single Market" that has removed many internal barriers that persist in the United States. He is affiliated with ARENA through the project SINGLEMARKETS, which he coordinates, as well as H2020-funded project Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy (EU3D). His other work on European integration, political economy, and political parties includes collaborations with scholars like Matthias Matthijs at SAIS Johns Hopkins, Andy Smith at Sciences Po Bordeaux, Till Weber at Baruch College CUNY, Joe Jupille at the University of Colorado, and Mark Blyth at Brown University.

Publications

  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). Andy Smith: Made in France: Societal structures and political work: Manchester University Press. 2021. French Politics. ISSN 1476-3419. doi: 10.1057/s41253-022-00200-1.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). Brexit and Economic Ideas. In Lord, Christopher James & Fossum, John Erik (Ed.), Handbook on the European Union and Brexit. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1 83910 068 0.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). Brexit and Economic Ideas. In Lord, Christopher James & Fossum, John Erik (Ed.), Handbook on the European Union and Brexit. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1 83910 068 0. p. 85–103.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander; Béland, Daniel & Garcé, Adolfo (2023). Taking Ideas Seriously in Political Science: The Diffusion of Presidentialism in Latin America after Independence. Political science quarterly. ISSN 0032-3195. doi: 10.1093/psquar/qqad008.
  • Matthijs, Matthias & Parsons, Craig Alexander (2022). Single Market Power: How Europe Surpassed America in the Quest for Economic Integration. Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. 101(3), p. 165–176.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2020). The Extraordinary, Taken-for-granted Achievement of Europe's Single Market. In Jones, Erik (Eds.), European Studies: Past, Present and Future. Agenda Publishing. ISSN 9781788212830. p. 88–94.

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  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). Engaged Pluralism: Rigorous Debates across Scholarly Divides. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192868282.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2020). Introduction to Political Science: How to Think for Yourself about Politics. Pearson Education Academic Publisher. ISBN 9780135710104. 528 p.

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  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). The Law and Politics of Single Market Governance in the EU and the US .
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). How did the EU get so much economic authority?Ideas and bargaining sequences in European integration.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2023). The SINGLEMARKETS project: market openness in the EU and the US.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander & Matthijs, Matthias (2023). Muscles from Brussels: How the European Union Ended Up with Fiscal Authority on Steroids.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander; Smith, Andy; Andrejuk, Katarzyna; Trondal, Jarle & Bach, Tobias (2023). Single Markets in Services in the United States and the European Union: The Case of Construction.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander; Jacobs, Nicholas & Moland, Martin (2023). Different federations, same views? Comparing US and EU popular support for a single market.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander & Jupille, Joseph (2021). Liberal Intergovernmentalism as a Baseline Theory: A Cautionary Tale.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander & Matthijs, Matthias (2021). How Did Europe's Single Market Surpass America's?
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander & Matthijs, Matthias (2021). Polanyian Means to Hayekian Ends: 'Ordoliberalism on Steroids' in EU Governance.
  • Parsons, Craig Alexander (2020). The Power of Ideas in Times of COVID-19.

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Published Jan. 20, 2020 2:02 PM - Last modified Jan. 27, 2023 10:27 PM