Home
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann's Library tagged → View Popular
Learning and Governance in the EU Policy-making Process, JEPP Special Issue, Vol 16., Issue 8 2009
:: Portál sdružení EUROPEUM ::
"Welcome to Europeum Institute for European Policy website\nEUROPEUM Institute for Europan Policy is a think-tank that undertakes programme, project, publishing and training activities related to the European integration process. "\nEUROPEUM Institute for European Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent institute. It focuses on the issues of European integration and its impact on the transformation of political, economic and legal milieu in the Czech Republic. EUROPEUM strives to contribute to a long-lasting development of democracy, security, stability, freedom and solidarity across Europe. EUROPEUM formulates opinions and offers alternatives to internal reforms in the Czech Republic with a view of ensuring her full-fledged membership and respected position in the European Union.
Petritsch/Svilanovic/Solioz (2009): Serbia Matters: Domestic Reforms and European Integration
-
Serbia Matters presents policy essays on Serbia's post-Milosevic era written by internationally recognised authors, policymakers, academics and political analysts actively engaged in the Balkans discourse. Since 2000 Serbia has moved from a decade of wars and delayed transition towards European integration. The book assesses the country's present state of affairs, recent achievements and future challenges. It also offers pertinent analyses and compelling arguments as to why Serbia's accession to the European Union matters as much for Belgrade as it does for the whole Western Balkans.
This book is written with the aim to persuade both Serbia's leaders and citizens and those Member States of the European Union who are hit by 'enlargement fatigue' that the country ought to have its rightful place in the EU and that there is no alternative to the reform process.
Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe
Southeast European Integration Perspectives, Band 1.
European Union External Governance - Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 16 Issue 6 2009
Articles
- EU rules beyond EU borders: theorizing external governance in European politics
- Modes of external governance: a cross-national and cross-sectoral comparison
- Which rules shape EU external governance? Patterns of rule selection in foreign and security policies
- Constraining external governance: interdependence with Russia and the CIS as limits to the EU's rule transfer in the Ukraine
- Hierarchy, networks, or markets: how does the EU shape environmental policy adoptions within and beyond its borders?
- Democracy promotion as external governance?
- EU promotion of democratic governance in the neighbourhood
Search Europa - search engine for the 28 million europa.eu pages
... eine Spezialsuchmaschine, die auf der Basis einer Google Custom Search Engine verwirklicht worden ist.
Das Suchinterface ist sehr einfach gehalten, es wird keine erweiterte Suche angeboten, weswegen man, um spezifische Ergebnisse zu bekommen, entweder die Google-Syntax bei der Suche anwenden muss (Pluszeichen, um Suchwörter zu erzwingen und Phrasen, wo möglich, sind unverzichtbar, wie z.B. “public opinion” +euro), unter dem Suchschlitz sind noch weitere Eingrenzungsmöglichkeiten (Rechtssuche ist Einschränkung auf EUR-LEX), die Dokumenttypen bringen z.T. auch etwas für die Eingrenzung. Die weiteren Optionen zur Eingrenzung (Jürgen Plieninger m Recherchen Blog).
Coen/Richardson (2009): Lobbying the European Union: Institutions, Actors, and Issues
-
It is universally accepted that there has been a huge growth in EU lobbying over the past few decades. There is now a dense EU interest group system. This entirely new volume, inspired by Mazey & Richardson's 1993 book Lobbying in the European Community, seeks to understand the role of interest groups in the policy process from agenda-setting to implementation. Specifically, the book is interested in observing how interest groups organise to influence the EU institutions and how they select different coalitions along the policy process and in different policy domains. In looking at 20 years of change, the book captures processes of institutional and actor learning, professionalisation of lobbying, and the possible emergence of a distinct EU public policy style. More specifically, from the actors' perspective, the editors are interested in assessing how the rise of direct lobbying and the emergence of fluid issue-based coalitions has changed the logic of collective action, and what is the potential impact of 'venue-shopping' on reputation and influence. From an institutional perspective, the contributors explore resource and legitimacy demands, and the practical impact of consultation processes on the emergence of a distinct EU lobbying relationship. It will be essential reading for academics and practitioners alike.
Renner/Trauner (2009): Creeping EU Membership in South-east Europe: The Dynamics of EU Rule Transfer to the Western Balkans - Journal of European Integration, Vol. 31, Issue 4, July 2009, pp. 449-465
The countries of the Western Balkans have all been subsumed under a pre-accession framework that is comparable to previous enlargement rounds, but with two main differences: the EU has thus far refrained from naming a timetable for eventual membership and supports flexible forms of integration in different policy fields. With only a loose prospect of membership, how strong is the EU's influence in the Western Balkans? With our empirical examples, drawn from energy policy and Justice and Home Affairs, we argue that the incentive of membership remains powerful in terms of initiating EU rule transfer. The key to successful rule adoption in the Western Balkans is to provide clear and tangible short-term incentives. Rather than full membership, the result is sectoral integration and a creeping process towards EU membership.
Gromes (2009): The Prospect of European Integration and Conflict Transformation in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Journal of European Integration Vol. 31, Issue 4, 4 July 2009, pp 431-447
-
Abstract
Conflict transformation means a change for the better that relates to the conflict object, the parties to the conflict and the way they pursue their antagonistic interests. This article investigates how the prospect of being integrated into the European Union can transform ethno-political conflicts over secession. It sketches out a framework of potential positive and negative impacts and it applies these considerations to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was offered the possibility of membership in 1999. Since 2002, the prospect of integration has furthered conflict transformation through setting incentives to put up with the contested common state, providing the parties to the conflict with a shared vision, and reinforcing the norms of democracy and non-violence. However, the EU could lose its constructive influence, if it ignores that some of its demands serve the interests of one side while they violate these of the other.
International Politics 2009, Vol 46.4: The Negotiation of EU Foreign Policy
-
This special issue is a systematic attempt to understand why and when European Union Member States succeed or fail in negotiating common policies for the world stage. It highlights the EU’s lack of automatic unity in world affairs, and focuses on the process by which Member States negotiate their differences in the quest for common policies.
Schneider (2008): Conflict, Negotiation and European Union Enlargement
-
Each wave of expansion of the European Union has led to political tensions and conflict. Existing members fear their membership privileges will diminish and candidates are loath to concede the expected benefits of membership. Despite these conflicts, enlargement has always succeeded - so why does the EU continue to admit new states even though current members might lose from their accession? Combining political economy logic with statistical and case study analyses, Christina J. Schneider argues that the dominant theories of EU enlargement ignore how EU members and applicant states negotiate the distribution of enlargement benefits and costs. She explains that EU enlargement happens despite distributional conflicts if the overall gains of enlargement are redistributed from the relative winners among existing members and applicants to the relative losers. If the overall gains from enlargement are sufficiently great, a redistribution of these gains will compensate losers, making enlargement attractive for all states.
• Offers an in-depth overview of existing literature on EU integration and enlargement
• Features past enlargements, the formal enlargement process, and other information relevant for EU enlargement
• Includes a combination of different methods: game-theory, quantitative analysis and case studiesContents
1. Introduction; 2. EU enlargements and transitional periods; 3. A rationalist puzzle of EU enlargement?; 4. A theory of discriminatory membership; 5. EU enlargement, distributional conflicts, and the demand for compensation; 6. The discriminatory of membership; 7. Discriminatory membership and intra-union redistribution; 8. Conclusion.
Tamvaki (2008): Legitimacy and EU Enlargement Politics
-
In the aftermath of the most ambitious accession bargain, attention has been directed away from EU negotiations to the tricky task of selling the elite enlargement deal to the voters. Focusing on past enlargement rounds, this book explores the link between diverse elite motives for pursuing membership and relatively constant variation in EU public support. National elite attitudes to integration contain the clues to the explanation of why utilitarian and affective support has traditionally been higher in some countries than in others. EU public opinion does not simply reflect the economic interests and identities of individuals faced with an objective reality. Rather, citizens face an endogenously shaped world, filtered by elite opinions on membership. Drawing upon "flexibility," this book advances a model of "theoretical differentiation" distinguishing between rationally and affectively driven entrants. Empirically, the tenacity of "differentiation" in EU legitimacy is examined through the use of original and secondary data. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, this study aspires to further debate on enlargement and public opinion engaging scholars and EU practitioners.
Best et al. (2008) The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union
-
This timely, comprehensive and authoritative study provides much food for thought for European policy makers, particularly in the current situation of uncertainty about the Lisbon Treaty. The authors' basically upbeat findings - that, despite the arrival of twelve new member states in one big bang and one after shock, it has been pretty much business as usual for the EU's institutions - will comfort both those who worried about the EU's capacity to act in the absence of institutional reform and those who argued that such reform was unnecessary. But the editors identify a number of emerging dynamics that will be of concern to all who care about the Union's democratic future: increasing formalisation of meetings and procedures on the one hand, coupled with an increase in informal, pre-cooked deals on the other; increasing primacy of the administrative over the political; and a growing trend towards "presidentialisation" within the institutions, with continued efficiency requiring more emphasis on the "primus" than on the "pares". The editors conclude that, while the European Union's institutional system continues to function and might even become more efficient, the price to be paid could further distance the Union from the citizens it seeks to serve.'
DeBardeleben (2008) The boundaries of EU enlargement
-
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the western Balkans. With future enlargements unlikely in the short-term, the EU faces new challenges in securing stable relationships with these neighbouring countries, while not fostering false hopes of early accession. This book explores the challenges facing the EU in developing its relations with neighboring countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe following the enlargements of 2004 and 2007.
The CAP: Policy Dynamics in a changing context, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 31, Issue 3 2009
Special issue dealing with the CAP.
Trauner (2009): From membership conditionality to policy conditionality: EU external governance in South Eastern Europe - Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 16, Issue 5
In view of the uncertainty about the final outcome of the current enlargement process, how effective is the EU's acquis conditionality in South Eastern Europe? By elaborating on the example of justice and home affairs, the article argues that the EU's external leverage has remained strong, as the EU has developed additional ways to render its conditionality approach credible. Although the hurdles for entering the EU have been raised, Croatia's compliance efforts can be considered to be similar to the logic observed in the eastern enlargement. The key to understanding the compliance of Macedonia, whose membership prospect is less certain or even questionable, is to take into account policy conditionality in addition to membership conditionality. The EU managed to compensate for less credible membership rewards by substantially increasing the value of the policy reward of visa-free travel. This strategy was effective but has created tensions with regard to the EU's broader objectives in the region.
Gustavsson et al. (2009): How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy
-
Kurzbeschreibung
The European project has come a long way in establishing peace, creating a common market, and expanding its borders. At the same time, diminishing popular legitimacy has spurred talk about a European Union in crisis. How far has the EU really come in fulfilling its grand visions? Is the project barely half-way? Or could we say with some confidence that European integration is solidified and will continue to get stronger? This book brings together contributors from economics, political science and law to offer different perspectives on this larger issue. The questions asked include: how far has the European Union come in its creation of a Common Foreign and Security Policy; what will happen to the state monopolies; is there a common strategy at the European level for integrating immigrants; and, to what extent do national political parties cooperate with the Europarties. By investigating these and similar issues the book contributes to an assessment of how successful European integration has been to date.
Southeast European Integration Perspectives
-
Series edited by Wolfgang Petritsch and Christophe Solioz
At the Nomos publishing house
“Southeast European Integration Perspectives” (SEIP) publishes relevant works on the political issues confronting Southeast Europe written by scholars, policy analysts, politicians, practitioners and activists, including both internationally recognized authors and emerging regional voices.
SEIP both analyses and promotes ongoing processes of transition and transformation, exploring the linkages between an emergent regionalism in Southeast Europe and wider European integration.
SEIP combines cutting-edge policy research, interdisciplinary approaches and innovative and provocative thinking which will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including policy analysts, scholars, policy makers, diplomats, and journalists.
26.05.09: EU Parliament facing legitimacy crisis, experts warn
-
The increase in power of the European Parliament, which will grow further if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all 27 member states, has failed to increase the House's political legitimacy and runs the risk of compromising its unique position as the EU's 'democratic pillar', according to a new report.
-
The report, published by CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies) research fellows Julia De Clerck-Sachsse and Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, argues that the Parliament's crucial importance as a forum for public debate is on the wane.
- 1 more annotations...
Kaina/Karolewski (2009): EU governance and European identiy, Living Reviews in European Governance, Vol. 4, No. 2
-
This Living Review presents an overview of the research on European identity in the context
of EU governance by focussing on central debates in the political science literature. It departs
from the problems of disagreement between European citizens and their elites as well as the
lack of a European demos. Against this background, the article discusses the functions of
collective identity including the legitimation function and solution of collective dilemmas. Here,
two perspectives pertaining to these functions are depicted: first, the issue of European public
space and second, the integrative workings of European citizenship. Next, the article explores
the conceptual and methodological problems of the research on European collective identity. In
particular, it focuses on the conceptual ambiguity of the collective identity term and problems
of operationalization and measurement. Following this, the article discusses the literature on
identity technologies of the EU and identifies the shortcomings of identity technologies with
regard to EU governance.
Keywords:European identity, governance, legitimacy, democracy, public opinion, European public space
Tömmel/Verdun (2009): Innovative Governance in the European Union: The Politics of Multilevel Policymaking
-
Do the traditional tools of governance make sense in the decidedly nontraditional political entity that is the European Union? Or are the realities of the unique EU system generating new, and sometimes eclectic approaches to policymaking? Responding to these questions, "Innovative Governance in the European Union" explores the emergence and development of governance approaches in a wide range of policy areas.The book's strong conceptual framework coupled with extensive empirical studies allows systematic comparison across EU policy areas. It also sheds light on the politics of policymaking in the context of the incentives and constraints set by the EU's institutional structure. Taken as a whole, it provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the forms of governance now emerging in the European Union.It also explores the emergence and development of innovative governance approaches in a wide range of EU policy areas.
Selected Tags
Related Tags
literature (64)- enlargement (31)
- governance (16)
- eu-policies (12)
- portals (11)
- enlargementpolicy_candidates (11)
- enlargementpolicy_eu (11)
- neighbourhoodpolicy (10)
- westernbalkans (9)
- eu-institutions (8)
- publicopinion (8)
- eu-legitimacy (5)
- constitution (5)
- interest-groups (4)
- bosnia (3)
- enlargementpolicymemberstates (3)
- eu-history (3)
- eu-commission (3)
Sponsored Links
Top Contributors
Groups interested in eu-resea...
Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »
Join Diigo