Policy design in the European Union: an empire of shopkeepers in the making?

In: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology Ser

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: The EU: A Deepening, Enlarging or Collapsing Union? -- Bibliography -- 2: The Emergence of the European Union as a Very Incoherent Empire -- A Very Brief History of the EU -- Ideological Power and the EU -- Economic Power and the EU -- Military Power and the EU -- Political Power and the EU -- A Very Incoherent Empire? -- Bibliography -- 3: An Extending Empire of Governance: The EU in Comparison to Empires Past and Present -- Other Kinds of Empire -- Brexit -- Previous Kinds of Empire in the European World -- Transitions from Regime to Empire -- Consolidating Empire -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4: A Promoter of Values or a Shopkeepers' Empire? Economy and Society in the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Trade Policy of the EU -- The EU: A Normative Power or a Promoter of Economic Interests? -- The EU's Second Ten-Year Plan and Analysis of Policy Documents -- The Europe 2020 Strategy as a Worldview -- Content Analysis and Category Analysis of 'Economy' -- Narrative Analysis of the Europe 2020 Document -- Translating the Strategy into Action: Trade Policy -- Conclusion and Discussion: The EU as an Ordoliberal Empire -- Bibliography -- 5: Eurostat: Making Europe Commensurate and Comparable -- Shaping the Statistical Space of Equivalence -- Eurostat: An Agency for Making Europe Commensurate -- Forging a Statistical Apparatus for Data Production -- Juridification and Indicatorisation of Statistics -- Balancing Between Professional Independence and Political Relevance -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6: The Power of Indicators in Making European States Governable in the Europe 2020 Strategy -- Introduction -- The Europe 2020 Strategy and Its Implementation Process -- Interplay Between General Target Indicators and Specific Recommendations