01076pab a2200181 454500 180718b2010 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Parsons, Craig Revisiting the single European act (and the common wisdom on globalization) 2010 p.706-34. Jun The European program of liberaliztion launched by the Single European Act (SEA) of 1987 is commonly seen as a powerful instance of "globalization" trends of economic integration, liberalization, and international institution building. This article revisits the origins of the SEA to argue that the extent and success of its liberalizing program depended on a causally distinct push for European institutional reform. A retracing of concrete political patterns behind the SEA greatly streng;thens broader statistical and theoretical challenges to the notion of strong universal trends of globalization. - Reproduced. European Union Globalization Comparative Political Studies N 87114 87114 87114 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 43, Issue no: 6 AR87574 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR