Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union

Princen, Sebastiaan; Schimmelfennig, Frank; Sczepanski, Ronja; Smekal, Hubert; Zbíral, Robert

doi:10.1080/01402382.2022.2150944

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“…A third approach is to examine how institutions and policies change due to EU law, in the vein of Europeanisation (Thomann, 2015). The Europeanisation literature underscores that directives include in‐built means for member states to implement and to transpose EU directives suited to their domestic institutions (Princen et al, 2022). Furthermore, it highlights the importance of looking not only at legal implementation, but also at practical implementation, which involves ‘domestication’ of directives, that is how different political and societal actors, with different aims, play a role in adapting EU law to domestic institutions (Pircher et al, 2023; Thomann & Sager, 2017).…”

Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states

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Pircher

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Soc Policy Adm

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This paper examines institutional change in father-specific leave -a centre-piece of the EU's work-life balance directive (WLBD) -from the perspective of gradual institutional change. The WLBD, a highly contentious directive, represents a litmus test for the possible impact of the European pillar of social rights (EPSR), on welfare state institutions, which are responsible for the organisation, financing and delivery of social rights in member states. The analysis comprises in-depth case studies in Denmark, Germany, France and Poland, with different combinations of family and parental leave policies prior to the WLBD. The findings reveal that the EU's directive is leading to convergence in paternity leave, but to divergence in parental leave. Our study is important because it shows that even if EU directives in social policy in principle can lead to upwards social convergence across the EU, when they are relatively weak in terms of precise constraint, for instance, for the level of remuneration for leave, this leads to differentiated

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Approachmentioning

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TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states

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“…Whereas participation in decision-making remains limited, the stage of policy implementation again provides scope for adapting commitments to the own priorities. This leeway has recently been studied as a source for differentiated integration via 'flexible implementation' (Princen et al, 2022). Insofar as third countries participate in EU operations [e.g., Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and Frontex missions], influence can also occur on the ground in the execution of EU policies.…”

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Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

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Öberg

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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This introductory article conceptualizes the notion of third country influence on European Union (EU) law and policy and proposes an analytical framework theorizing the venues and means through which third countries may gain such impact, under what conditions and with which implications for the EU's legal and political order. The article first introduces the focus on outside‐in influence in the context of European studies, generally, and EU privileged third country relations, specifically. Thereafter, an analytical framework is developed for mapping and explaining the outside‐in dynamics on EU law and policy‐making differentiating between diplomatic, governance and discursive venues; coercive versus technocratic and normative mechanisms of influence; and the legal constraints and political implications of these processes. Turning to the potential determinants of these occurrences, the article then proposes a set of hypotheses for conditions under which third countries can influence EU law and policies, before summarizing the individual contributions to this Special Issue.

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“…Intellectually, nearly all the previous large-n analyses I am aware of have focused on Council policy. This not only includes ones like those listed at the start of this article that scrape EU databases but also those like the EU Decides project and its offshoots that use EU databases to capture the titles, text, procedures and outcomes for a small subset of all proposals and adopted laws (Thomson et al, 2006;Thomson, 2011;Aksoy, 2012;Arregui and Perarnaud, 2021;Golub, 2022), as well as studies that examine opt-outs from EU legislation (Duttle et al, 2017;Princen et al, 2022;Zbiral et al, 2022). Even large-n studies of delegation focus on the content of Council policy (Franchino, 2007;Brandsma and Blom-Hansen, 2017).…”

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EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021

Golub

2023

European Union Politics

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The availability of datasets scraped from the European Union's websites has greatly advanced the systematic analysis of European integration. But despite their enormous value, European Union databases contain almost no information about policymaking during Europe's first two decades, and for later periods, they suffer from far more inconsistencies and errors than has been previously recognised. This article draws upon extensive archival research and manual coding to identify and correct several of these limitations. I present a new dataset (EUPROPS) containing information on proposals for European Union policy from 1958 to 2021 and their outcomes. To illustrate the value of the dataset, I present some surprising initial findings about patterns of policymaking across this 60-year period and identify avenues for future research.

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Different yet the same? Differentiated integration and flexibility in implementation in the European Union

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states

TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

EUPROPS: A new dataset on policymaking in the European Union from 1958 to 2021

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