61 research outputs found
Stuck between a rock and a hard place: electoral dilemmas and turnout in the 2002 French legislative elections
The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration: Interdependence, Politicization and Differentiation. IHS Political Science Series No. 137, 10 July 2014
This paper conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated integration
characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and
variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation
has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as
the EUâs powers, policy scope, and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the
paper attributes the pattern of differentiated integration in the EU to the interaction of
interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal
differentiation) results from supranational integration under conditions of high
interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy
integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized
policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the
internal market, monetary union, and defence
The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration: Interdependence, Politicization and Differentiation
This paper conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated integration characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as the EUâs powers, policy scope, and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the paper attributes the pattern of differentiated integration in the EU to the interaction of interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal differentiation) results from supranational integration under conditions of high interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the internal market, monetary union, and defence
Differentiated integration in the European Union: Institutional effects, public opinion, and alternative flexibility arrangements
Research on differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union (EU) has focused on the causes, conditions, and patterns of differentiation in European integration. By contrast, we know less about its effects on institutional outcomes and public support; moreover, alternatives to de jure DI in providing flexibility are still rarely accounted for. This introduction to the special issue takes stock of, and discusses omissions, in the current literature on DI. We propose an analytical framework, centering on efficiency and legitimacy, to study the effects of different types of DI. We use this framework to motivate the choice and assess the contributions of the articles selected for this special issue
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration
This article maps and investigates public support for different types of differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union. We examine citizens' preferences for DI using novel survey data from eight EU member states. The data reveals substantive differences in support for different types of DI. Factor analyses reveal two dimensions that seem to structure citizens' evaluations of DI. The first dimension relates to the effect of DI on the European integration project, the second concerns the safeguarding of national autonomy. Citizens' attitudes on this second dimension vary substantively across countries. General EU support is the most important correlate of DI support, correlating positively with the first and negatively with the second dimension. Our results underline that while citizens generally care about the fairness of DI, balancing out their different concerns can be a challenging political task
Forecasting European Union politics: Real-time forecasts in political time series analysis
Gridlock after enlargement? An analysis of legislative output in the European Unionâ
In this paper we analyze the impact of European Union (EU) enlargement on EU policymaking.
Most theories of social choice argue that groupâsize negatively affects the efficiency
of decisionâmaking. Veto player theory, for instance, claims that adding veto players increases
policy stability. Similarly, aâpriori voting power theory expects legislative output to decline
with shrinking passage probabilities. Building on these theories, we derive a set of
hypotheses on group size and decisionâmaking. We test these theories by estimating count
models on a dataset of EU legislative output from 1976 to 2009. While we find some evidence
for a reduction of the number of legislative acts passed, this especially holds for the
production of directives and regulations, the effects are smaller than expected by our
theories. We also present an analysis of legislative output in the Common Fisheries Policy and
the Common Agricultural Policy. For fisheries we can show that group heterogeneity in
addition to groupâsize has an impact on policy production
Wenn Zwei sich streiten, freut sich der Dritte? Divided Government im dynamischen Mehrebenensystem der EU
Bienvenu or Access Denied? : Recruiting French Political Elites for Indepth Interviews
Keine Arroganz, aber auch keine falsche Bescheidenheit! : was die EU von anderen Regionalorganisationen lernen kann
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