Europeanization and Multilevel Governance

Europeanization and Multilevel Governance
Author: Ian Bache
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742541337

Europeanization has become a major theme within European studies in recent years, emphasizing the domestic effects of the EU on its member and applicant states. At the same time, multilevel governance has emerged as an important concept, highlighting shifts both in horizontal relations between state and society and in vertical links between actors at different territorial levels. In this state-of-the-art study, Ian Bache traces the relationship between these two key elements, considering the extent to which Europeanization advances multilevel governance within member states through the requirements of EU cohesion policy. Bache focuses especially on Britain, a member state whose political system has been increasingly characterized by multilevel governance since it became an EU member. Comparing Britain's case to that of ten other member states, the author distinguishes between the EU's effects in simple polities--in which voice, influence, and power are diffused through multiple levels and modes of governance--and in compound polities, where voice, influence, and power are more concentrated. Bringing together the conceptual tools of multilevel governance and policy networks and developing a framework for using these tools together in future research, this clearly written study will be valuable for scholars and students of EU and British politics.

New Modes of Governance and the EU Structural and Cohesion Policy in the New Member States

New Modes of Governance and the EU Structural and Cohesion Policy in the New Member States
Author: Kálmán Dezséri
Publisher: Akademiai Kiads
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This book looks at policy steering modes in other words, governance of one particular Community policy area, namely structural/cohesion policy. The study analyzes the governance modes of this policy at the European Union (EU) level and its implementation in eight new member states, putting special emphasis on the usage of 'new modes of governance' in this policy field. In the broad sense, the term 'new modes of governance' is understood as a range of innovations and transformations that have occurred, and continue to, in the instruments, methods, modes, and systems of governance. New approach to governance involves such concepts as a web of non-hierarchical relations between actors, voluntary consensus-building, the application of soft measures, and more flexibility in implementation. This new approach has increased in importance in the EU during the last ten years (i.e. the Amsterdam Treaty, the Lisbon agenda, and the European Commission's White Paper on Governance). Within Europe

The Dynamics of Change in EU Governance

The Dynamics of Change in EU Governance
Author: Udo Diedrichs
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0857930311

The emergence, execution and evolution of new modes of governance across several policy fields - and encompassing all three pillars of the European Union - are mapped, analyzed and evaluated. In particular, the expert contributors focus on the ways in which these innovative mechanisms and practices interrelate, how they relate to ?old' methods of governance, and what their implications are both for the effectiveness and efficiency of policymaking. Conclusions are drawn in the form of an integrated new framework that explains the dynamics of EU governance with an ?integrative spiral' driven by the interrelation between the legal and the living architecture of the EU. Linking research on modes of governance to the analysis of the basic legal, institutional and procedural features of the EU up to the Lisbon Treaty, this book will prove essential reading for scholars, researchers and policy makers in the fields of European studies, law and economics, and political science and theory.

EU Cohesion Policy

EU Cohesion Policy
Author: John Bachtler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315401843

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy against the background of the most significant reforms to the policy in a generation. Responding to past criticisms of the effectiveness of the policy, the policy changes introduced in 2013 have aligned European Structural and Investment Funds with the Europe 2020 strategy and introduced measures to improve strategic coherence, performance and integrated development. EU Cohesion Policy: Reassessing performance and direction argues that policy can only be successfully developed and implemented if there is input from both academics and practitioners. The chapters in the book address four important issues: the effectiveness and impact of Cohesion policy at European, national and regional levels; the contribution of Cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the importance of quality of government and administrative capacity for the effective management of the Funds; and the inter-relationships between institutions, territory and place-based policies. The volume will be an invaluable resource to students, academics and policymakers across economics, regional studies, European studies and international relations.

New Modes of Governance in Europe

New Modes of Governance in Europe
Author: A. Héritier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230306454

Based on the research of the EU-6th framework funded research consortium on 'New Modes of Governance in the European Union', this volume explores the roots, execution and applications of new forms of governance and evaluates their success.

European Cohesion Policy

European Cohesion Policy
Author: Willem Molle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113407199X

The only comprehensive text available for advanced study and professional reference, this book brings much needed clarity to both the theoretical and practical aspects of EU intervention. Integrating both theoretical and practical research in a clear and accessible structure, covering economic, social and territorial issues European Cohesion Policy provides a systematic view of the various stages of the whole policy cycle, looking in detail at: the evolution of the problems the design of the policy system the implementation in practice the evaluation of effects . An authoritative analysis of the problems and debates involved, European Cohesion Policy is essential reading for students, policy makers, development workers and researchers working in all aspects of European policy.

Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU

Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU
Author: Simona Piattoni
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784715670

This Handbook covers all major aspects of EU Cohesion policy, one of the most significant areas of intervention of the European Union. Over five parts, It discusses this policy’s history and governing principles; the theoretical approaches from which it can be assessed; the inter-institutional and multi-level dynamics that it tends to elicit; its practical implementation and impact on EU member states; its interactions with other EU policies and strategies; and the cognitive maps and narratives with which it can be associated. An absolute must for all students of the EU.

Cohesion Policy and European Integration

Cohesion Policy and European Integration
Author: Liesbet Hooghe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198280644

How can one convince potent nation-states to put their sovereignty at risk in common European policies? EU cohesion policy, now one-third of the EU budget, provides such a puzzle. Until 1988 the European Commission shared out money to national governments with few strings attached. Since the reform of 1988, national governments are required to negotiate with the Commission and regional authorities on how to use the money. Has this European-wide policy eroded national sovereignty in favour of a stronger role for the Commission and more power for Europe's regions? The first part of the book probes into the policy dynamics at the European level. In the second part, eight country studies evaluate the impact of uniform EU policy on territorial relations by comparing policy making before and after the reform. The concluding section explains persistent variation in EU cohesion decision making and implementation.

EU Cohesion Policy

EU Cohesion Policy
Author: John Bachtler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315401851

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy against the background of the most significant reforms to the policy in a generation. Responding to past criticisms of the effectiveness of the policy, the policy changes introduced in 2013 have aligned European Structural and Investment Funds with the Europe 2020 strategy and introduced measures to improve strategic coherence, performance and integrated development. EU Cohesion Policy: Reassessing performance and direction argues that policy can only be successfully developed and implemented if there is input from both academics and practitioners. The chapters in the book address four important issues: the effectiveness and impact of Cohesion policy at European, national and regional levels; the contribution of Cohesion policy to the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; the importance of quality of government and administrative capacity for the effective management of the Funds; and the inter-relationships between institutions, territory and place-based policies. The volume will be an invaluable resource to students, academics and policymakers across economics, regional studies, European studies and international relations.