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In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 17-17
ISSN: 0048-5950
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In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 17-17
ISSN: 0048-5950
In: German politics: Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 39-57
ISSN: 0964-4008
How may policy convergence between Germany and the United Kingdom come about? This contribution seeks to offer some analytical explanations. It explores the real-world pressures for convergence for two medium-sized powers which are institutionally embedded within the European Union, whilst economically integrated into the global economy. Globalisation and Europeanisation are reviewed as ways of understanding the potential for convergence. However, detailed attention is directed onto the concept of policy transfer for explaining possible convergence. In particular, the discussion presents an institutionalist account of the opportunities for, and constraints upon, transfer between the two states. It argues that policy transfer facilitated by membership of the EU is likely to be the greatest dynamic behind policy convergence. (German Politics / FUB)
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In: Journal of European public policy, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 365-386
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 17-42
ISSN: 0048-5950
In: Journal of public policy, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 351-380
ISSN: 1469-7815
ABSTRACTThe analysis of European integration has tended to use a toolkit drawn from international relations. But since the revival of integration in the mid-1980s, the governance of the European Community and European Union has increasingly come to resemble that of a multi-tiered state. Accordingly, this article analyzes the governance of the European Union from a comparative public policy perspective. Using new or historical institutionalism, three levels are considered. In the first part, attention is focused on the EU's institutions and the available instruments of governance. The second part examines the analysis of governance at the policy-specific or sub-system level, and puts forward an approach based on governance regimes. The final part considers the institutional roots of the persistent, regulatory character of governance in the European Union.
In: Journal of public policy, Band 13, S. 351-380
ISSN: 0143-814X
Examines the institutions and instruments of EEC governance, its discrete policy regimes or sub-systems, and its regulatory characteristics.
In: The new European Union series
In: Journal of European public policy series
In: European Policy Studies Series
What has been the impact of the EU on UK central government? This book explores the?Europeanisation? of the work of civil servants and ministers and how they engage with the EU. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the spreading impact of European integration across government. The study is placed in the context of political divisions over the EU but outlines the often neglected way in which the EU has transformed the business of government. It charts the process from the Macmillan government?s 1961 application to join the European Communi
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 25, Heft 8, S. 1089-1098
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: European journal of international relations, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 725-748
ISSN: 1460-3713
The European Union is facing multiple challenges. Departing from mainstream theory, this article adopts a fresh approach to understanding integration. It does so by taking two theoretical steps. The first introduces the structure–agency debate in order to make explicit the relationship between macro-structures, the institutional arrangements at European Union level and agency. The second proposes that the state of integration should be understood as the outcome of contestation between competing hegemonic projects that derive from underlying social processes and that find their primary expression in domestic politics. These two steps facilitate an analysis of the key areas of contestation in the contemporary European Union, illustrated by an exploration of the current crisis in the European Union, and open up the development of an alternative, critical, theory of integration.
In: European journal of international relations, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 725-748
ISSN: 1354-0661
World Affairs Online
The European Union is facing multiple challenges. Departing from mainstream theory, this article adopts a fresh approach to understanding integration. It does so by taking two theoretical steps. The first introduces the structure–agency debate in order to make explicit the relationship between macro-structures, the institutional arrangements at European Union level and agency. The second proposes that the state of integration should be understood as the outcome of contestation between competing hegemonic projects that derive from underlying social processes and that find their primary expression in domestic politics. These two steps facilitate an analysis of the key areas of contestation in the contemporary European Union, illustrated by an exploration of the current crisis in the European Union, and open up the development of an alternative, critical, theory of integration.
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In: The Europeanisation of Whitehall, S. 126-150