Agenda-setting by the European Commission. Seeking public opinion?

Haverland, Markus; Ruiter, Minou de; Walle, Steven Van de

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1249014

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“…More generally, it also questions in how far polls initiated by policy-makers provide unbiased measures of public opinion. Especially the Eurobarometer polls contracted by the European Commission have recently been rather interpreted as strategic tools to influence the public discourse (Haverland et al 2018;Höpner and Jurczyk 2015).…”

Section: A Procedural Perspective On Responsiveness In Eu Policymakingmentioning

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Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Wilde

Rauh

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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Research on policy responsiveness of the European Union has adopted the systemic model from national contexts. This focusses on the static congruence or the dynamic adaptation of aggregated policy output and similarly aggregated public opinion. Approaches in this vein provide relevant insights and uncover a surprising degree of EU responsiveness. Yet, this debate contribution argues that they only insufficiently capture indirect accountability chains and the emerging challenges of public EU politicization and mediatization. We establish the need for procedural perspectives that addresses how the different EU institutions perceive and digest public opinion and subsequently influence it through communication. To further this research agenda, we sketch the contours of a procedural model by highlighting possible variation at the input, throughput and output stages. Going full circle, we suggest, allows us to better understand the responses to public opinion and their wider implications for the societal acceptance of the unfinished supranational polity.

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Section: A Procedural Perspective On Responsiveness In Eu Policymakingmentioning

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Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Wilde

Rauh

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…Early in the policy cycle, the Commission can act as an informal agenda-setter or policy entrepreneur, e.g. by creating judicial precedents (Schmidt, 2000), strategic information collection (Haverland et al, 2018), or by setting up expert groups, initiating stakeholder consultations, or issuing discussion papers (Princen and Rhinard, 2006).…”

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One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016

Rauh

2020

European Union Politics

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Analyses of strategic agenda-setting in the European Union treat the European Commission as a unitary actor with perfect information. Yet, the constraints for correctly anticipating acceptable policies vary heavily across its individual Directorates-General. Do these internal rifts affect the Commission’s agenda-setting ability? This article tests corresponding expectations on the edit distances between 2237 Commission proposals and the adopted laws across 23 years. The quality of legislative anticipation indeed varies with the responsible Directorate-General. Legislative proposals are more likely to remain unchanged if they face less parliamentary involvement, are less complex, were drafted by an experienced Directorate-General, and were coordinated more seamlessly within the Commission. However, the uncovered variation also calls for more systematic research on the distribution of legislative capacities inside the Commission.

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“…For the variety of ways through which questions make it into the Eurobarometer surveys, see Haverland et al. ().…”

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The opinion‐policy nexus in Europe and the role of political institutions

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Reher

Toshkov

2018

European J Political Res

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Abstract.A strong link between citizen preferences and public policy is one of the key goals and criteria of democratic governance. Yet, our knowledge about the extent to which public policies on specific issues are in line with citizen preferences in Europe is limited. This article reports on the first study of the link between public opinion and public policy that covers a large and diverse sample of concrete public policy issues in 31 European democracies. The findings demonstrate a strong positive relationship and a substantial degree of congruence between public opinion and the state of public policy. Also examined is whether political institutions, including electoral systems and the horizontal and vertical division of powers, influence the opinion-policy link. The evidence for such effects is very limited, which suggests that the same institutions might affect policy representation in countervailing ways through different mechanisms.

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Agenda-setting by the European Commission. Seeking public opinion?

Cited by 47 publications

References 30 publications

Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016

The opinion‐policy nexus in Europe and the role of political institutions

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