The European Council And European Governance

Author : François Foret,Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317962342

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The European Council and European Governance by François Foret,Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer Pdf

In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the balance of powers in Brussels. This book explains the redistribution of power in the post-Lisbon EU with a focus on the European Council. Reform of institutions and the creation of new political functions at the top of the European Union have raised fresh questions about leadership and accountability. This book argues that the European Union exhibits a political order with hierarchies, mechanisms of domination and legitimating narratives. As such, it can be understood by analysing what happens at its summit. Taking the European Council as the nexus of European political governance, contributors consider council and rotating presidencies' co-operation, rivalry and opposition. The book combines approaches through events, processes and political structures, issues and the biographical trajectories of actors and explores how the founding compromise of European integration between sovereignty and supranationality is affected by the evolving nature of this new European political model which aims to combine cooperation and integration. The European Council and European Governance will be of strong interest to students and scholars of European studies, political science, political sociology, public policy and international relations.

Author : Magnus Ekengren
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719061555

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The Time of European Governance by Magnus Ekengren Pdf

A study of the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. A theoretical approach to the changing demands of policy-planning as the focus shifts to the present and new demands and rhythms influence European decision-making.

Author : G.P.E. Walzenbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351938563

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European Governance by G.P.E. Walzenbach Pdf

This collection provides a balanced evaluation of multi-level governance. Written by international experts of policy-making in the European Union, each contribution builds on common conceptual definitions, critically debating their adaptation to policy-specific contexts and investigating their usefulness for conducting empirical research. This engaging text uses case studies to identify the specific changes that have occurred in power relations across different levels of the EU system. With varying emphasis on state and non-state actors, on country comparisons and international processes, the reader is invited to join a fruitful dialogue among the contributors about the symbiotic relationship of multi-level analysis with other conceptual innovations such as transnational regulation, network formation or market internationalization. This book confronts sophisticated theoretical reasoning with the actual realities of policy-making and is therefore essential reading for all those interested in the risks and opportunities of a comparative-interdisciplinary approach to European governance.

Author : Mark Bevir,Ryan Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351209533

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Decentring European Governance by Mark Bevir,Ryan Phillips Pdf

Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, the European Union (EU) and its predecessors provide an exemplary site for developing a decentred approach to the study of governance. The book offers an analysis of the formation and transformation of the EU as an example of governance above the nation-state and is framed by the recognition that the construction of the EU has resulted in variegated and decentred forms of governance. The chapters look at distinct aspects of EU governance to bring to light the influence of elite narratives, scientific rationalities, local traditions and meaningful practices in the making and remaking of European governance. As such, each chapter offers a unique contribution to the study of the EU. In doing so, the book challenges dominant narratives of European integration and policymaking that appeal to reified rationalities and social structures, and uncovers the contingency and conflict endemic to European governance. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European politics/studies, governance and, more broadly, to public management, international organizations, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Dr Jens-Uwe Wunderlich,David J Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136962813

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The European Union and Global Governance by Dr Jens-Uwe Wunderlich,David J Bailey Pdf

The European Union and Global Governance: A Handbook aims to analyse contemporary debates in European Studies in order to provide lessons for the development, design and normative evaluation of global governance. It brings together scholars of European studies and international relations, where much of the literature on regional and global governance is located, thereby providing interdisciplinary lessons from the study of European Union and its governance that can be used to re-evaluate processes of global governance. Each chapter examines methodological, theoretical or empirical discussions within European studies in order to draw insights for current developments in global governance.

Author : Deirdre Curtin,Ramses A. Wessel
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : 9789050953818

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Good Governance and the European Union by Deirdre Curtin,Ramses A. Wessel Pdf

This book approaches the notion of good governance from three different angles. First it establishes whether it is a meaningful notion at all by taking a closer look at the parameters of good governance. Secondly, the authors look at the institutional translation of the criteria of good governance. In a third dimension, the concept may be analysed in relation to a number of substantive issues.

Author : Beate Kohler-Koch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191530852

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Linking EU and National Governance by Beate Kohler-Koch Pdf

European governance ranks high on the present research agenda on Europe and has attracted considerable attention in public debate in the course of the past decade. This book takes a special approach as it highlights the multi-faceted interconnectedness of EU and national governance that comes with public policy making in the European space. The volume is a well chosen selection from the research of leading European scholars. These scholars provide an insight into the current debate on European governance by using state-of-the art, theory-orientated empirical research. The individual chapters give evidence of the functioning and the deficiencies of the penetrated system of governance that has emerged within the European Union. The spreading of competence across different levels and multiple arenas has created a dense and complex network of trans-national negotiations, shifting attention and resources from the national to the European space. European governance puts national governments under considerable pressure to live up to the competing demands of efficient performance and democratic accountability. Though member-states all face the same challenge, they have responded with different kinds of strategies. EU involvement has contributed to the restructuring of the relationship between the legislative and the executive and touches upon the equilibrium between the political and the economic sphere. It influences the interactions between political actors on the one hand and societal actors and the public on the other. The contributions highlight the diverse mechanisms which link EU and national governance and demonstrate the constraints but also the readiness and capacity of political bodies to adapt to demands from their environment. While the volume documents the sensitivity and vulnerability which is associated with interdependent governance, it also gives evidence of learning processes and successful adjustment which is achieved by developing a differentiated and flexible intitutional setting and which allows for further integration. Apart from this more functional view, individual chapters look at the penetrated system of European governance from a normative perspective and investigate the prospect of improving parliamentary accountability and the formation of a European public space.

Author : S. Bunse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230234345

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Small States and EU Governance by S. Bunse Pdf

Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues.

Author : Dirk De Bièvre,Christine Neuhold
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782541462

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Dynamics and Obstacles of European Governance by Dirk De Bièvre,Christine Neuhold Pdf

This book examines some of the major origins of change in institutions and policies in European governance. The authors combine a sophisticated institutional analysis with in-depth insights into European policies across a wide variety of policy fields. The fields examined are higher education, employment, research, police co-operation, as well as foreign affairs, trade, energy, and security and defence policy. Presenting the fruit of years of collaboration in an EU-funded Research Training Network, the authors expand the mechanisms through which political actors transform apparent deadlock into actual change in European policy making.

Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134039029

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The European Union and Global Governance by Mario Telò Pdf

This book explores and analyses the multidimensional influence the European Union exerts in the world, focusing on its contribution to regional and global governance. Presenting a multidisciplinary approach with contributions by a panel of outstanding scholars from political science, economics, legal studies, philosophy and history, the book examines the EU as global player and international power in the making. The book is divided into three parts: Part I examines the influence of the EU as such on global governance, considering the Euro, the common market, the modernization policies for a knowledge society and its global role as both a multinational and regional democratic political system Part 2 focuses on the EU’s external policies, including trade; humanitarian aid; the environment; climate change, migration, terrorism, crime and EU foreign policy Part 3 explores the EU as a global actor in the making and looks at issues including enlargement and the EU’s neighbourhood policy; inter-regionalism; it critically addresses the weight of the historical legacies of Europe in the world and its cosmopolitan perspectives as well The European Union and Global Governance will be of vital interest to students and scholars of European Politics, International Relations, and European Studies.

Author : Commission of the European Communities
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the EC
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : European Union
ISBN : UVA:X004692484

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Report from the Commission on European Governance by Commission of the European Communities Pdf

Author : Ramona Coman,Amandine Crespy,Vivien A. Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108482264

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Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union by Ramona Coman,Amandine Crespy,Vivien A. Schmidt Pdf

An original new textbook providing an up-to-date, critical perspective of how the EU works, and what issues it faces, in the post-crisis era.

Author : Hiroyi Akiba,Koji Fukuda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136874857

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European Governance After Nice by Hiroyi Akiba,Koji Fukuda Pdf

What is the impact of institutional reform implemented by the Nice Treaty on European Governance? What should be done to enhance democratic legitimacy in the EU? This book provides an up-to-date guide to understanding the European Union as an institution. Globalisation has led to enormous changes in the international environment which, in turn, have demanded institutional reform of the European Union in the form of the Nice Treaty. European Governance After Nice scrutinises how, and to what extent, the treaty will contribute to the solution of existing problems, examining both its positive effects and its limitations and examines the reforms within the EU through political science, law and economics, in order to express the full extent of the different effects of the Nice Treaty on non-member as well as member countries. The contributors suggest that the threat of varying exchange rates in the future, when the Treaty has an expansionary effect on economic scale, will lead to a deepening interdependence between the excluded countries.

Author : Bart Van Vooren,Steven Blockmans,Jan Wouters
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191634734

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The EU's Role in Global Governance by Bart Van Vooren,Steven Blockmans,Jan Wouters Pdf

For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage. The EU has a uniquely strong and legally binding mission statement to pursue international relations on a multilateral basis, founded on the progressive development of international law. The political vision was for the EU to export its values of the rule of law and sophisticated governance mechanisms to the international sphere. Globalization and the financial crisis have starkly illustrated the limits of this vision, and the EU's dependence on global forces partially beyond the control of traditional provinces of law. This book takes stock of the EU's role in global governance. It asks: to what extent can and does the EU shape and influence the on-going re-ordering of legal processes, principles, and institutions of global governance, in line with its optimistic mission statement? With this ambitious remit it covers the legal-institutional and substantive aspects of global security, trade, environmental, financial, and social governance. Across these topics 23 contributors have taken the central question of the extent of the EU's influence on global governance, providing a broad view across the key areas as well as a detailed analysis of each. Through comparison and direct engagement with each other, the different chapters provide a distinctive contribution to legal scholarship on global governance, from a European perspective.

Author : Henriette Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198842002

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Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency by Henriette Müller Pdf

The EU's pluralistic, nonhierarchical system of multilevel governance lacks clear structures of both government and opposition. According to the EU treaties, the presidency of the European Commission is thus not explicitly expected to exercise political leadership. However, the position cannot effectively be exercised without any demonstration of such leadership due to its many leadership functions. Examining this curious mix of strong political demands, weak institutional powers, and need for political leadership, this book systematically analyses the political leadership performance of the presidents of the European Commission throughout the process of European integration. The basic argument is that Commission presidents matter not only in the process of European integration, but that their impact varies according to how the different incumbents deal with the institutional structure and the situational circumstances, and thus their available strategic choices. The primary research question is thus, What makes political leadership in European governance successful and to what extent (and why) do Commission presidents differ in their leadership performance? In addressing this question, this book departs from existing research on EU leadership, which has to date often analysed either the EU's institutional structure and its potential for leadership or mainly focused on only the most recent incumbents in case study analyses. Focusing on the multiterm European Commission presidents Walter Hallstein, Jacques Delors, and Jos� Manuel Barroso, this book conceptualizes their political leadership as a performance, and thus systematically analyzes their agenda-setting, mediative-institutional, and public outreach performance over the entire course of their presidential terms.