Economic Government of the EU: A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
1 An Economic Government for Europe in the Making? The Evolution of Policy Co-ordination in Turbulent Times......Page 20
Policy co-ordination as an object of study: the historical and conceptual background......Page 30
Towards an effective and legitimate economic government? The debate about the future of policy co-ordination......Page 34
The institutionalist path from legal to living constitution......Page 37
Conclusion......Page 54
Introduction......Page 56
Economic interdependencies and the rationale for co-ordination......Page 58
Co-ordination by rules and other institutional arrangements: constraints and incentives on national governments’ choices......Page 62
Heterogeneity in the Euro zone and its sources......Page 64
Small and large states: coping with differences in incentives......Page 67
Concluding remarks: fiscal policy co-ordination without an economic government......Page 68
Introduction......Page 72
An actor-oriented multilevel framework......Page 73
Coalition-building in face of member state resistance......Page 75
The integration of the EES in the member states – or rather lack of it......Page 78
Changes in domestic opportunity structures......Page 82
The EES and changes in national governance systems......Page 85
Conclusion: co-ordination of national strategies rather than development of one European strategy......Page 87
Introduction......Page 91
Implementation of the multilateral surveillance procedure underlying the SGP......Page 92
Major milestones in the history of the SGP......Page 95
Has the SGP delivered?......Page 100
The relevance of the SGP instruments questioned......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 108
Introduction......Page 110
National adaptation to policy co-ordination: outlining the theoretical and empirical approach......Page 111
The pains of the Stability Pact: adaptation, contestation and evasion in fiscal policy co-ordination......Page 115
The gains of the employment strategy: peer review, learning and neglect in employment policy co-ordination......Page 121
Making sense of the findings: comparing Europeanisation effects across governing modes and countries......Page 128
Conclusion: soft governance, weak Europeanisation?......Page 133
Introduction......Page 138
Different frameworks of policy-making: the European Employment Strategy and the structural funds......Page 141
The legal-constitutional level: setting the basis for a functional relationship?......Page 142
The strategic level: synergies or patchwork?......Page 143
The administrative level: towards a European administrative space......Page 152
Spill-over and institutional stickiness on the way towards communitarisation......Page 155
Introduction......Page 160
What kind of economic policy co-ordination? Fusion versus fragmentation......Page 162
The emergence and evolution of European economic policy co-ordination......Page 164
Evaluating the impact of the BEPGs......Page 175
The scenarios revisited: fusion via the BEPGs or fragmentation despite the BEPGs?......Page 178
Introduction......Page 182
Administrative networking in the EU......Page 183
Deliberative transnationalism......Page 184
The OMC as an enabling structure......Page 186
The role of the committees......Page 187
The OMC – deliberative governance in practice?......Page 196
Conclusion: prospects and limits of deliberative transnationalism......Page 200
Introduction......Page 206
How does policy co-ordination impact on public discourses? The significance of regulative and compensatory Europeanisation......Page 207
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of media content......Page 211
Has policy co-ordination induced regulative Europeanisation?......Page 213
Has policy co-ordination led to a compensatory Europeanisation?......Page 224
Conclusion: mixed potential of policy co-ordination to induce communicative Europeanisation......Page 226
Introduction......Page 230
The evolution of self-co-ordination: loose co-ordination in action......Page 231
Revisiting our expectations: some lessons for theorising......Page 240
Outlook and lessons: the future of economic governance......Page 250
Chronology of Events......Page 253
References......Page 262
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Z......Page 286