European integration and national executives: A cause in search of an effect?

Goetz, Klaus H.

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“…The aim of this paper is to clarify the European factor in the 'Belgian Question'. We take the perspective of the Europeanization literature as this research agenda deals with how member states' polities, politics and policies change due to the impact of European integration (Ladrech 1994;Goetz 2000;Olsen 2002;Vink 2003;Mair 2004, Graziano andVink 2006).…”

Section: The Europeanization Of the Belgian Federationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Europeanization generally refers to the process through which European integration affects domestic policies, politics, and polities or what it is doing with domestic political systems (Ladrech 1994;Hanf and Soetendorp 1998;Börzel 1999;Harmsen 1999;Goetz 2000;Kassim, Peters et al 2000;Green Cowles, Caporaso et al 2001;Knill 2001;Olsen 2002;Mair 2004;Kassim 2005;Ladrech 2005;Graziano and Vink 2007). A well-known problem in research on Europeanization is -as with most 'tion-words' such as democratization, transformation or socialization -that the key concept, Europeanization, is characterized by a product-process ambiguity (Hacking 1999, 36-8).…”

Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The question thereby is how EU-level factors lead to changes in the modes of domestic politics. This is what Goetz calls linkage-adaptation: as domestic political systems (governments, parliaments…) become more and more embedded in European policy-making, they are expected to adapt their domestic policy-making modes (Goetz 2000). The causal importance of the EU with regard to direct Europeanization is relatively easy to track down; sometimes it is even trivial, for instance, when ministries establish departmental units in order to coordinate EU affairs (Haverland 2006).…”

Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

Beyers

Bursens

2013

Regional & Federal Studies

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Abstract. European integration triggers contrasting views from Belgian political elites. Proponents of confederalism, further decentralization and separatism point to the decreasing importance of the central government level within a more integrated Europe as well as to the growing relevance of regions within contemporary Europe. Opponents of separatism generally favor a strong central government arguing that Europe will not easily accept separatism and that further decentralization may substantially weaken the European position of Belgium and its regions. This paper aims to clarify the European factor in the 'Belgian Question'. Our argument consists of two parts. First, we discuss the political-administrative consequences of the institutional interpenetration of the Belgian federation within the EU polity. Second, we explore how European economic integration impacts upon politics within the Belgian federation. Our main conclusion is that both aspects of European integration entail a differentiated outcome; while the first triggers cooperation, the second stimulates ongoing decentralization pressures. 3 The Europeanization of the Belgian FederationOver the past decades, the Belgian state has been subject to two different evolutions:while the process of European integration has pooled a large number of competences at the European level, the consecutive reforms of the Belgian state have created sub-national units with a substantial portfolio of policy competences. The combination of these two parallel evolutions has resulted in a system of multilevel governance (MLG) which satisfies two separate considerations: coping with heterogeneity within Belgium while at the same time reaping the economic benefits of a large European market. This paper deals with the relation between European integration and federalization: we address the questions whether and how European integration has an impact on the internal political dynamics of the Belgian federation. We aim to clarify the nature of the European impact by unpacking the effects of Europe into different and, as we will argue, also contrasting processes.European integration does not occupy a prominent place in Belgian political debates on the organization of the Belgian federal state (Deforche 2012). However, despite the fact that political parties hardly use 'European' arguments when discussing state reforms, we can discern two contrasting views regarding the relation between the regional and the European level. On the one hand, proponents of confederalism and separatism point to the decreasing importance of the federal level and to a growing relevance and viability of regional jurisdictions within a more integrated Europe. It is argued that regional autonomy should increase in order to cope more efficiently with the impact of European integration and One of our goals is to disentangle the impact of various dimensions of European integration on different aspects of the Belgian polity. We will develop two -seemingly contradicting -propositions:1. Some effects of Europea...

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Section: The Europeanization Of the Belgian Federationmentioning

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Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

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Section: Conceptualizing European Integration and Europeanizationmentioning

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Beyers

Bursens

2013

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“…that the concept could be "a cause in search for an effect" (Goetz 2001) -in two ways. Firstly, we choose flooding policies as exploratory case, precisely as one of a very recent European integration around risk-based thinking.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French, and German flooding policies

Paul

Bouder

Wesseling³

2015

Journal of Risk Research

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Comparative studies have recently highlighted obstacles related to continental European countries' proclivity for adopting risk-based policies. However, so far, the interface between risk-based policies in the EU and potential policy change in reluctant member states has been underexplored. We compare flooding policies in the Netherlands with those in France and Germany to establish the extent to and conditions under which EU level risk-based policies can transform national approaches. Drawing on the concept of Europeanization, we compare national adaptation pressures stemming from the EU floods directive, investigate adaptation dynamics, and account for transformations towards risk-based thinking. We find that Europeanization enabled a mainstreaming of risk-based policies in France and Germany, as national actors used the EU venue to entice a desired policy rationalization and centralization. By contrast, and somewhat unexpectedly, the Netherlands partially retrenched from EU procedures because the directive's reporting mechanisms were considered to breach The Hague's aspirational policy approach. Overall the paper indicates a strong potential for even 'soft' EU policies to ease national reluctance to risk-based governance. It also indicates limits where member states use risk-based techniques within an aspirational protection framework.

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“…With regard to domestic polity, which relates more to the institutional focus of this research on the TC administration, scholars have concentrated on the executive (for example, Bulmer and Burch, 2000;Goetz, 2000;George, 2001), the legislature (for example, Goetz and Meyer-Sahling, 2008) or local administration (for example, Burch and Gomez, 2003;Fargion et al, 2006). A reoccurring research theme is also the EU effect on power constellations between different domestic institutions: some have argued for the weakening of the legislative branch (for example, Goetz and Meyer-Sahling, 2008) to find opposition by those who see national parliaments as a winner of EU integration (for example, Goetz and Meyer-Sahling, 2008).…”

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A model of ‘contested’ Europeanization: The European Union and the Turkish-Cypriot administration

Kyris

2013

Comp Eur Polit

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This article investigates the European Union's (EU) relevance to the Turkish-Cypriot (TC) administration, pegged to the Europeanization debate. The study contributes to the discussion on Europeanization and the EU's international role, especially in cases of contested states, which constitute an important element of the EU's current global agenda but remain an under-researched topic. The argument advanced is that the Europeanization of the TC administration, although similar to previous cases of EU Enlargement, is importantly mediated by the conditions of contested statehood that exist in northern Cyprus. In this respect, the TC example holds strong comparative value for the study of Europeanization of contested states and the wider debate on international role of the EU, in variety of contexts and in relation to a diverse range of actors, beyond conventional states that dominate discourse.

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European integration and national executives: A cause in search of an effect?

Cited by 185 publications

References 42 publications

How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

How Europe Shapes the Nature of the Belgian Federation: Differentiated EU Impact Triggers Both Co-operation and Decentralization

Risk-based governance against national obstacles? Comparative dynamics of Europeanization in Dutch, French, and German flooding policies

A model of ‘contested’ Europeanization: The European Union and the Turkish-Cypriot administration

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