Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2238207
C. Bertram
ABSTRACT This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the European Commission’s trade and sustainable development discourse from 1993 to 2022. By employing a discursive institutionalist framework and examining a comprehensive corpus of over 1,400 press documents, this study traces the discursive process that has created both significant changes to, and persistent elements in, the Commission’s trade-sustainability agenda. The analysis reveals noteworthy shifts within the discourse, notably a transition from a primary concern with labour and human rights during the 1990s to an increased focus on economic development and poverty reduction in the early 2000s. This was followed by a discernible move towards more stringent differentiation among developing countries and an amplified emphasis on reciprocity. In recent years, we are witnessing a strong focus on environmental and climate protection, labour rights, and enforceability. The findings underscore the enduring presence of trade-sustainability ideas within EU trade policy and their gradual evolution over time, while contributing to the literature on the role of ideas in shaping the Union’s external policies.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2242891
J. Cross, Derek Greene, N. Umansky, Silvia Calò
Policy agendas are a well-studied institutional level phenomenon that capture the set of policy issues that an institution pays attention to over time. They are emergent in nature in that individual behaviour shapes institutionallevel outcomes when policy makers allocate attention to policy issues. To examine the link between individual-level actions and system-level outcomes we introduce the concept of the agenda-setting constellation, defined as a group of policy makers paying attention to a set of policy issues. Taking the European Central Bank as a case study, and using a combination of text-analysis and networks-analysis techniques, we demonstrate how these meso-level structures shape the evolving policy agenda. We then examine the roles of personal experience, institutional constraints, and policy context in driving agenda-setter constellation membership. Our results show the value of studying policy agendas as networked processes and the key role that agenda-setter constellations play in driving policy agenda dynamics. *Connected Politics Lab, School of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland. (james.cross@ucd.ie) Corresponding author. †Insight Centre for Data Analytics & School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. (derek.greene@ucd.ie) ‡Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland. (umansky@ipz.uzh.ch) §European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg. (s.calo@esm.europa.eu) The views expressed in this paper are personal and do not represent the views of the European Stability Mechanism.
{"title":"Speaking in unison? Explaining the role of agenda-setter constellations in the ECB policy agenda using a network-based approach","authors":"J. Cross, Derek Greene, N. Umansky, Silvia Calò","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2242891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2242891","url":null,"abstract":"Policy agendas are a well-studied institutional level phenomenon that capture the set of policy issues that an institution pays attention to over time. They are emergent in nature in that individual behaviour shapes institutionallevel outcomes when policy makers allocate attention to policy issues. To examine the link between individual-level actions and system-level outcomes we introduce the concept of the agenda-setting constellation, defined as a group of policy makers paying attention to a set of policy issues. Taking the European Central Bank as a case study, and using a combination of text-analysis and networks-analysis techniques, we demonstrate how these meso-level structures shape the evolving policy agenda. We then examine the roles of personal experience, institutional constraints, and policy context in driving agenda-setter constellation membership. Our results show the value of studying policy agendas as networked processes and the key role that agenda-setter constellations play in driving policy agenda dynamics. *Connected Politics Lab, School of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland. (james.cross@ucd.ie) Corresponding author. †Insight Centre for Data Analytics & School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. (derek.greene@ucd.ie) ‡Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland. (umansky@ipz.uzh.ch) §European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg. (s.calo@esm.europa.eu) The views expressed in this paper are personal and do not represent the views of the European Stability Mechanism.","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44958423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2242907
D. Clegg, Niccolo Durazzi, E. Heins, E. Robertson
{"title":"Policy, power and pandemic: varieties of job and income protection responses to Covid-19 in Western Europe","authors":"D. Clegg, Niccolo Durazzi, E. Heins, E. Robertson","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2242907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2242907","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45469004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2085770
P. Becker
ABSTRACT In July 2020 the European Council adopted the new multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the additional European recovery budget ‘Next Generation EU’ (NGEU). Certainly, this agreement marked a clear change in German European policy. Germany was not only prepared to pay significantly higher contributions to the EU budget, but also accepted to launch an additional European economic stimulus programme that will be financed through European common debt. However, Germany insisted on significant constraints and substantive limitations in scope of these new instruments. This restrictive, hesitant and rather defensive policy of prevention can be explained by Germany’s role as status quo-power (SQP) in the European Union (EU). This role implies that Germany is trying to preserve the existing status quo, the agreed structures and rules, and is only prepared to agree to far-reaching changes if this status quo or even the existence of the EU itself appear to be at risk.
{"title":"Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic","authors":"P. Becker","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2022.2085770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2022.2085770","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In July 2020 the European Council adopted the new multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the additional European recovery budget ‘Next Generation EU’ (NGEU). Certainly, this agreement marked a clear change in German European policy. Germany was not only prepared to pay significantly higher contributions to the EU budget, but also accepted to launch an additional European economic stimulus programme that will be financed through European common debt. However, Germany insisted on significant constraints and substantive limitations in scope of these new instruments. This restrictive, hesitant and rather defensive policy of prevention can be explained by Germany’s role as status quo-power (SQP) in the European Union (EU). This role implies that Germany is trying to preserve the existing status quo, the agreed structures and rules, and is only prepared to agree to far-reaching changes if this status quo or even the existence of the EU itself appear to be at risk.","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":"30 1","pages":"1473 - 1493"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49170747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2218419
Zbigniew Truchlewski, Ioana-Elena Oană, Alexandru D. Moise
ABSTRACT Recent research argues that external threats like war spur EU polity formation (Kelemen & McNamara, 2022). One key mechanism of this process is public support for policy responses designed by policymakers. However, like the ‘rally-round-the-flag’ effect (Mueller, 1970), public support wanes over time and we decompose this decrease into two elements: salience and polarisation at the domestic level for national and European policies in both soft and hard security (aid and sanctions). We show that while salience can sustain public support for European policy innovations, polarisation about national and (unexpectedly) European policies accelerates its decline. We thus qualify the story of EU polity formation through external security crises.
{"title":"A missing link? Maintaining support for the European polity after the Russian invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Zbigniew Truchlewski, Ioana-Elena Oană, Alexandru D. Moise","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2218419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2218419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent research argues that external threats like war spur EU polity formation (Kelemen & McNamara, 2022). One key mechanism of this process is public support for policy responses designed by policymakers. However, like the ‘rally-round-the-flag’ effect (Mueller, 1970), public support wanes over time and we decompose this decrease into two elements: salience and polarisation at the domestic level for national and European policies in both soft and hard security (aid and sanctions). We show that while salience can sustain public support for European policy innovations, polarisation about national and (unexpectedly) European policies accelerates its decline. We thus qualify the story of EU polity formation through external security crises.","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":"30 1","pages":"1662 - 1678"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48160908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2241879
Eva Thomann, Federica Marconi, Asya Zhelyazkova
{"title":"Did pandemic responses trigger corruption in public procurement? Comparing Italy and Germany","authors":"Eva Thomann, Federica Marconi, Asya Zhelyazkova","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2241879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2241879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49435586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2235380
M. J. García
ABSTRACT Trade policy and negotiations have lain at the heart of the Brexit process. Initial UK trade policy has been characterised by: (1) the need to limit the impact of changes in trading relations (mainly with the EU) to minimise challenges for businesses and the possibility of economic losses; (2) a strong ideological commitment to free trade, and related to that; (3) symbolic and ‘placebo’ actions designed to show that the UK can enact an independent trade policy. Negotiation of free trade agreements (FTAs), thus, became a priority of trade policy. This article explores how approaches to FTAs have evolved, focusing specifically on post-Brexit FTAs with Australasia. Overall, the desire to complete speedy agreements has at times trumped business and societal interests, and precluded the development of a coherent long-term UK FTA vision, revealing the symbolic motivation of being seen as ‘delivering Brexit’ behind the initial years of post-Brexit trade policy.
{"title":"Post-Brexit trade policy in the UK: placebo policy-making?","authors":"M. J. García","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2235380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2235380","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Trade policy and negotiations have lain at the heart of the Brexit process. Initial UK trade policy has been characterised by: (1) the need to limit the impact of changes in trading relations (mainly with the EU) to minimise challenges for businesses and the possibility of economic losses; (2) a strong ideological commitment to free trade, and related to that; (3) symbolic and ‘placebo’ actions designed to show that the UK can enact an independent trade policy. Negotiation of free trade agreements (FTAs), thus, became a priority of trade policy. This article explores how approaches to FTAs have evolved, focusing specifically on post-Brexit FTAs with Australasia. Overall, the desire to complete speedy agreements has at times trumped business and societal interests, and precluded the development of a coherent long-term UK FTA vision, revealing the symbolic motivation of being seen as ‘delivering Brexit’ behind the initial years of post-Brexit trade policy.","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":"30 1","pages":"2492 - 2518"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41726197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2235386
Pedro C. Magalhães, Nuno Garoupa
{"title":"Populist governments, judicial independence, and public trust in the courts","authors":"Pedro C. Magalhães, Nuno Garoupa","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2235386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2235386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47922539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2232825
S. Hamilton
{"title":"Dropping off the bandwagon: a puzzle for the resource mobilisation perspective on civil society contestation networks","authors":"S. Hamilton","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2232825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2232825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45193076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2023.2230247
K. McNamara
{"title":"Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn","authors":"K. McNamara","doi":"10.1080/13501763.2023.2230247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2230247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51362,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Public Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47688581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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