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Learning and steering: changing implementation patterns and the Greek central government
Full text linkGreece is frequently characterized as a laggard in the implementation of EU policy. This article examines the key characteristics of the Greek central government and links them to patterns of policy implementation. However, governments, like all organizations, have the capacity to learn. Thus, implementation patterns change over time. Observations and inferences from experience matched by the acquisition of new techniques and critical events help to improve the implementation of EU public policy. This is demonstrated bymeans of a case study (public procurement policy)
Governing without government?
No full textBook synopsis: How successful has Romano Prodi been in reviving the European Commission after the crisis of 1999? What impact has he made on the operation of the College of Commissioners and how successful was the reform of the administrative machinery of this key organisation? In addition to providing a detailed account of the operation of the College, this book includes a comprehensive analysis of the reform of the Commission and the factors that have led to its success. Has the relationship of the European Commission with the member states changed under Prodi and if so, how? How have Commissioner Chris Patten and Secretary-General Javier Solana worked in the area of foreign policy? Has Prodi's Commission managed to extend liberalisation in previously protected markets? These are key themes discussed in this book which brings together an international group of scholars who specialize in European integration
Europeanisation and the Greek policy style: national or sectoral?
No full textBook synopsis: The contributors collected here discuss the patterns of continuity and change, success and failure observed in seven policy areas - environment, social regulation, regional policy, the single market, agriculture, EMU and foreign policy - in order to investigate how policy formulated and implemented in Greece has changed as a result of EU membership; why Greek authorities have managed to implement EU policy more successfully in some policy areas than in others and whether Greek public opinion vis-à-vis the EU changed over time.
This book argues that although the widely-held belief that Greece is a laggard in a number of policy areas is not inaccurate, the pattern of Greek membership of the EU is much more complex, not least because it contains success stories. It will be of interest to students and researchers of the European Union, public policy and Greek politics
Greece: an introduction to patterns of EU membership
No full textBook synopsis: The contributors collected here discuss the patterns of continuity and change, success and failure observed in seven policy areas - environment, social regulation, regional policy, the single market, agriculture, EMU and foreign policy - in order to investigate how policy formulated and implemented in Greece has changed as a result of EU membership; why Greek authorities have managed to implement EU policy more successfully in some policy areas than in others and whether Greek public opinion vis-à-vis the EU changed over time.
This book argues that although the widely-held belief that Greece is a laggard in a number of policy areas is not inaccurate, the pattern of Greek membership of the EU is much more complex, not least because it contains success stories. It will be of interest to students and researchers of the European Union, public policy and Greek politics
Introduction: social democracy, European integration and preference formation
No full textBook synopsis: What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many social democratic parties initially opposed European integration either in principle or because of the form it took, gradually they came to lend their full, though often critical, support to it. Despite this evolution, important differences between them have remained.
This book examines the preferences of social democratic parties in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Greece towards European integration, in comparative perspective. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with key party officials, the contributors explore what kind of Europe these parties want, and seek to explain the formation and evolution of these preferences over time. They examine the interplay of national peculiarities and cross-national factors and their impact on preferences on European integration. In addition to highlighting the role of party leaders, they reveal that, far from being united on European integration, these parties disagree with each other in part because they have retreated – to varying degrees – from key social democratic principles.
Making an important contribution to the scholarship on preference formation and the research that links the European Union with the nation state, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, comparative politics and political parties
Paths to Spitzenkandidaten
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is threefold. First, it seeks to map out the ways in which the Spitzenkandidaten were chosen in 2014 and 2019. Second, it seeks to discuss any changes or broader trends that have emerged across these two ‘moments’ in the early phase of the institutionalisation of the ‘Spitzenkandidaten process’. In particular, it considers a) whether there is a dominant model for candidate selection in these, early, stages of the evolution of the Spitzenkandidaten process, and b) the extent to which intra-party procedures differ along ideological lines. Finally, it situates the current state of play in relation to how the Spitzenkandidaten are chosen in the broader debate on the evolving EU political system and, in particular, a) the theory of parliamentary federation and b) models of EU democracy. Four arguments are advanced in this chapter. First, there are several commonalities between between the ‘paths’ taken by the party families when choosing their candidates - to such an extent that one may well speak of a dominant model. Second, presenting the institutionalisation of the Spitzenkandidaten process as a battle or conflict between the European Council and the European Parliament is misleading since members of the former are active and influential players – in their capacity of party leaders – in the selection of Spitzenkandidaten in the first place. Third, the key features of this ‘model’ points in the direction of a practical rejection of the lessons offered by the theory of parliamentary federation. Finally, the party families that use the dominant model appear to be giving – at that level - a practical response to the question of the future of the European Union by opting for procedures that are akin to the model of EU democracy that Ben Crum defines as political union
Conclusions
No full textBook synopsis: What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many social democratic parties initially opposed European integration either in principle or because of the form it took, gradually they came to lend their full, though often critical, support to it. Despite this evolution, important differences between them have remained.
This book examines the preferences of social democratic parties in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Greece towards European integration, in comparative perspective. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with key party officials, the contributors explore what kind of Europe these parties want, and seek to explain the formation and evolution of these preferences over time. They examine the interplay of national peculiarities and cross-national factors and their impact on preferences on European integration. In addition to highlighting the role of party leaders, they reveal that, far from being united on European integration, these parties disagree with each other in part because they have retreated – to varying degrees – from key social democratic principles.
Making an important contribution to the scholarship on preference formation and the research that links the European Union with the nation state, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, comparative politics and political parties
The panhellenic Socialist movement and European integration: the primacy of the leader
No full textWhat kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many social democratic parties initially opposed European integration either in principle or because of the form it took, gradually they came to lend their full, though often critical, support to it. Despite this evolution, important differences between them have remained.
This book examines the preferences of social democratic parties in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Greece towards European integration, in comparative perspective. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with key party officials, the contributors explore what kind of Europe these parties want, and seek to explain the formation and evolution of these preferences over time. They examine the interplay of national peculiarities and cross-national factors and their impact on preferences on European integration. In addition to highlighting the role of party leaders, they reveal that, far from being united on European integration, these parties disagree with each other in part because they have retreated – to varying degrees – from key social democratic principles.
Making an important contribution to the scholarship on preference formation and the research that links the European Union with the nation state, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, comparative politics and political parties
Introduction
No full textBook synopsis: How successful has Romano Prodi been in reviving the European Commission after the crisis of 1999? What impact has he made on the operation of the College of Commissioners and how successful was the reform of the administrative machinery of this key organisation? In addition to providing a detailed account of the operation of the College, this book includes a comprehensive analysis of the reform of the Commission and the factors that have led to its success. Has the relationship of the European Commission with the member states changed under Prodi and if so, how? How have Commissioner Chris Patten and Secretary-General Javier Solana worked in the area of foreign policy? Has Prodi's Commission managed to extend liberalisation in previously protected markets? These are key themes discussed in this book which brings together an international group of scholars who specialize in European integration
An architectural perspective of the EU's institutions (Μια αρχιτεκτονική θέαση των θεσμών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης).
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