‘EU Justice Scoreboard: a new policy tool for “deepening” European integration?’

Strelkov, Alexander

doi:10.1080/14782804.2018.1534729

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“…As has been hypothesised in previous publications, the EU Justice Scoreboard not only has the potential to affect the division of competences between Member States and supranational institutions in the domain of the rule of law and administration of justice (Strelkov 2019), it already does so.…”

Section: Different Approaches Of Policy Influence For Different Mechanisms Of Policy Changementioning

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Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments

Cappellina¹

2020

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The article addresses the production of indicators as policy instruments in European public policy. It discusses the relevant literature on sociology of quantification and European public policy and applies this theoretical framework to the case of European judicial administration policy. Presenting the historical and institutional premises to the creation of two projects of judicial performance assessment by the Council of Europe and the European Commission, as well as their methodology, the article argues that the selection of indicators is a litmus test of debates over the strategies and institutional goals of the organisations proposing them. Connecting the previous analysis with the use of these instruments in the policy-making sphere, the article points out that evaluation tools in European policy, rather than serving merely as informative tools, produce empowerment side-effects in the policy arena for the organisations that developed them. In European judicial policy, indicators provide a sufficiently loose framework to solve vertical and horizontal cooperation problems at the international level, determine policy goals through the selection of areas of measurement and evaluation, and provide proof to influence local and national policy-makers over reforms either through lesson-drawing, persuasion or conditionality.

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Section: Different Approaches Of Policy Influence For Different Mechanisms Of Policy Changementioning

confidence: 72%

Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments

Cappellina¹

2020

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“…to control the compliance of the member states with the founding principles of the EU after accession, but later the rhetoric of the EU Commission has changed and from then on the EU Justice Scoreboard has been used primarily as a tool that links the effectiveness of justice with investment attractiveness and the ability of the member states to guarantee a transparent business climate. 8 Now, let us briefly pause to take a breath because Croatia's rankings in both reports are devastating. According to the Global Competitiveness Report presented by World Economic Forum, Croatia's judicial independence was ranked 126th out of 141 countries, which is the worst result within the European Union (EU).…”

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The Eu Reports and Other Soft-Governance Tools on Rule of Law, Independence, Quality and Efficiency of Justice Systems: Are They Right About the Current State of Justice System in Croatia?

Jelinić¹

2020

EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series

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The EU is founded on the rule of law, which stands for the political and legal concept that embodies many guarantees and principles, including but not limited to having accessible, efficient and independent national justice systems across the EU. However, it is mathematically evident that some national justice systems perform a lot better than others. Moreover, the indicators show that the discrepancies between the justice systems of the EU Member States are so vast so that it brings into question whether the principle of mutual trust that serves as the very basis of numerous procedural documents delivered on the EU level makes sense at all.In his paper the author addresses various problems of the Croatian system of justice by approaching them from two levels; from the academic point of view and from the public perspective. Both views are contextualized with the findings from the EU Justice Scoreboard and other reports. The trustworthiness of the reports is examined and crucial aspects of the problems within the Croatian justice system identified.

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The Supply and Demand of Justice: What Policy Implications from the EU Justice Scoreboard?

Dori

2023

YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions

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Introduction 2 The Scoreboard Underlying Philosophy and the Role of Costs 2.1 Between Rule-of-Law and Economic Considerations 2.2 The Role of Costs 3 Zooming in: Some Findings of the Scoreboard on the Costs of Access to Justice 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Role of Public Budget in Funding Justice 3.3 Court Fees and the Efficiency of Proceedings 3.4 Cost Shifting and Recoverability of Lawyer Fees 3.5 Legal Aid and Consumer Access to Justice 3.6 Availability of Information on Court and Legal Fees 4 Towards a Taxonomy System of the Scoreboard Cost-Related Information 4.1 Background 4.2 Components of Synthetic Indicators 4.3 States' Subsidies 4.4 Litigants' Fees 4.5 Legal Aid 5 Highlighting Trends 5.1 Progressive Development Identified 5.2 The Gradual Shift of Focus Towards the Demand Side 5.3 The Growth of Data 5.4 The Commission's Experimental Approach 6 Zooming Out: The Role of Cost-Related Information in the Concept of Access to Justice 7 Conclusions References This publication is made possible by the funding of the Vici project 'Affordable Access to Justice: towards sustainable cost and funding mechanisms for civil litigation in Europe' (project no VI. C.191.082), financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). See www.euciviljustice.eu.

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‘EU Justice Scoreboard: a new policy tool for “deepening” European integration?’

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments

Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments

The Eu Reports and Other Soft-Governance Tools on Rule of Law, Independence, Quality and Efficiency of Justice Systems: Are They Right About the Current State of Justice System in Croatia?

The Supply and Demand of Justice: What Policy Implications from the EU Justice Scoreboard?

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