Governance and Institutions: The Insidious Effect of Chronic Crisis

Dinan, Desmond

doi:10.1111/jcms.12606

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“…As provision of rule of law and justice remains one of the key prerogatives of EU member states, the creation of EU Justice Scoreboard, first, reopens the debate as to what is the optimal division of labour between EU intergovernmental and supranational bodies in this policy domain (Carrera, Guild, and Hernanz 2013) and, second, poses the question about the direction of European integration. Even if some member states such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary have various challenges with the rule of law and the quality of their judicial systems (Dinan 2017b), EU attempts to redress the situation through monitoring and sanctioning have produced mixed results at best (Dimitrov, Harlampiev, and Stoychev 2016b). Respective policy solutions face the challenge of combining national sovereignty with external oversight of the rule of law, while securing accountability at the same timegoals that are difficult to accomplish simultaneously.…”

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

Strelkov

2018

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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Since its introduction in late 2013, the EU Justice Scoreboard allows the European Commission to obtain information on the performance of national judicial systems. This article argues that despite being a technical policy instrument, the EU Justice Scoreboard has the long-term potential to affect the division of competences between member states and supranational institutions in the domain of rule of law. Drawing on three meta-theories of EU integration, neofunctionalism, new intergovernmentalism and governance, this article investigates which theoretical approach best explains the functioning of this policy instrument. Although it is considered that in the case of the EU Justice Scoreboard, insights from both neofunctionalism and new intergovernmentalism have better explanatory power, this article stresses the need to combine various theoretical accounts for a more comprehensive understanding of EU policy processes.

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confidence: 99%