2023
DOI: 10.1002/cep4.2
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Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

Alina Felder,
Nils Stockmann

Abstract: This article argues that the COVID‐19 pandemic has incited the collision of norms in sectoral European Union (EU) governance and provided an open juncture for the European Commission to engage in norm reconfiguration. Herewith, the paper expands the conceptual scope of EU‐related norm research, which by focussing on the diffusion of norms within and beyond the EU has largely omitted dynamic perspectives on norms so far. We combine International Relations norm research with EU governance literature to scrutinis… Show more

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“…With their conception of governance architectures, Borrás and Radaelli (2011) have proposed a framework to assess the dynamics of normatively contested meaning within EU (multi-level) governance (also see our discussion in Felder and Stockmann, 2023). The authors define governance architectures as "strategic and long-term political initiatives of international organizations on cross-cutting policy issues locked in commitments about targets and processes" (Borrás and Radaelli, 2011, p. 464).…”
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“…With their conception of governance architectures, Borrás and Radaelli (2011) have proposed a framework to assess the dynamics of normatively contested meaning within EU (multi-level) governance (also see our discussion in Felder and Stockmann, 2023). The authors define governance architectures as "strategic and long-term political initiatives of international organizations on cross-cutting policy issues locked in commitments about targets and processes" (Borrás and Radaelli, 2011, p. 464).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In this context, lock-ins are "path dependence that entrench technical, institutional, and behavioral systems with known technical and environmental disadvantages" (Seto et al, 2016, p. 427). In transport and mobility policy specifically, two examples of such lock-ins which are also reflected in the EU governance approach (Gössling and Cohen, 2014), are the dominance of individual motorized transport, generally dubbed as "car dependency" or "automobility (see, Paterson, 2007;Haas, 2021), and the entwinement of transport with economic prosperity and (in the 2 And indeed, not much later, also the emerging Covid-19 pandemic and more lately the energy crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine (see Dupont et al, 2020;Felder and Stockmann, 2023;Wiertz et al, 2023). EU case specifically) integration ("derived demand"; see Attard and Shiftan, 2015;García Mejuto, 2017).…”
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