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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe Working Paper “Budgetary and re-distributive modes in the EU”, written by Kálmán Dezséri, focuses on budgetary and re-distributive modes in the EU. Starting from theoretical and conceptional considerations, the paper identifies the main areas of redistributive effects of the EU budget and examines their emergence and evolution. The Policy Paper “New Modes of Governance and the Evolution of the EU System - A Theoretical Perspective”, written by Udo Diedrichs, outlines different theoretical models in order to set the scene for the main focus: namely, the theoretical explanation of new modes of governance and the different phases in their lifecycle.go to documents area of project 1 |
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Project 1: Impact and Evolution of Governing ModesThe Policy Memorandum on the Evaluation of Governing Modes by Udo Diedrichs draws together results concerning the Evaluation of Governing Modes within Cluster One and presents first comparative findings with a set of conclusions that will serve as a pint of reference for the publication of a joint monograph. The Policy Memorandum on “Emergence and evolution of the European social dialogue” by Philippe Pochet provides certain overall trends on the emergence and evolution of the sectoral social dialogue and compare its dynamics with those of the interprofessionnal dialogue. The Policy Memorandum on “Governance in the Justice and home affairs domain” by Jörg Monar and Anya Dahmani
From ‘softer’ to ‘harder’ modes? concludes that any potential reduction in the use of ‘softer’ governance instruments is not necessarily going to be made up by an equivalent higher use of ‘harder’ instruments.go to Cluster 1 Website |
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationThe CODE database provides an opportunity for undertaking empirical research on governing modes in the European Union. We expect the database, on the one hand, to further our understanding of Governing Modes by providing empirical support (or counter-arguments) regarding our theoretical hypotheses developed within the NEWGOV Project. On the other hand, the goal is to create a tool on EU governance for the research community. In both regards, CODE assists in revealing quantitative patterns of secondary law in a given policy area. Similarily – on a primary law level – it allows for easy identification of both general modes of governance and specific legal provisions that form the legislative basis for each sector.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Project 4: Legal Perspectives on Democracy and New Modes of GovernanceThe paper, written by Egle Svilpaite, inquires into the limits and conditions imposed on the use of self- and co-regulation by the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making, various documents of the European Union institutions and other sources. The content of five main procedural and substantive conditions – compliance with Community law, added value for the general interest, transparency, representativeness and monitoring – is explored in detail along with the precluded areas of their use.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Project 4: Democracy & New Modes of GovernanceSince a few years, the European Commission has been engaged in vigorous promotion of alternatives to legislation within the broader agenda of better law-making. The belief is that self- and co-regulation could be successfully employed by the EU alongside the traditional Community Method to achieve better effectiveness, flexibility, expertise in regulation, and to integrate society at large, while at the same time simplifying law-making activities and legislation. Drawing on the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making, policies and documents of the European Union institutions, this paper, written by Egle Svilpaite aims to address the degree of the conceptual integration of self- and co-regulation as a new European regulation mechanism into the EU legal framework.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationThe first policy memorandum on "The Influence of the Open Method of Coordination on Pensions" was written by David Natali, the second paper on "the Evaluation of Modes of Governance in Budgetary Policy" by Kálmán Dezséri.go to Cluster 1 Website |
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe paper by Philippe Pochet analyses the main outcome of the cross-industry and sectoral dialogue, the agreed joint texts. It presents in an integrated framework both the cross-industry and sectoral social dialogues. The paper presents a brief history of the European social dialogue, defines broad categories to classify the joint texts, presents a quantitative analysis of the texts, and illustrates the nature of the exchange and presents a typology.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationThree new policy memoranda synthesise the research done in the fields of Cohesion Policy (Krisztina Vida), OMC in Research Policy (Colin Shaw), and Treaty Negotiations (Thomas Risse and Mareike Kleine)go to documents area of cluster 1
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationFour new working papers deal with governing modes in selected policy areas: The OMC in Pension policy and its influence on national reforms (David Natali), Justice and Home Affairs (Jörg Monar), Governance with European Agencies (Stefan Griller and Andreas Orator), and Structural and Cohesion Policy in the new Member States (Kálmán Dezséri and Krisztina Vida)go to documents area of cluster 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe paper by Philippe Pochet presents, in an integrated framework, both the cross-industry and sectoral social dialogues. The paper was presented at the EUSA Tenth Biennial International Conference, Montreal, Canada May 17-19, 2007, in the session on “EU soft law: emergence, operation, and influence in comparative perspective”.download conference paper
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesTwo policy memoranda summarize the main results presented in the corresponding Working Papers: Social and Environmental Policies (by Holger Bähr and Oliver Treib), the Impact of Intergovernmentalism on the evolution of CFSP (by Udo Diedrichs with support of Tobias Kunstein)go to documents area of project 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThree new working papers deal with governing modes in selected policy areas: Comparing Modes of Governance in CFSP and JHA (by Udo Diedrichs), Social and Environmental Policies (by Holger Bähr and Oliver Treib), the Impact of Intergovernmentalism on the evolution of CFSP (by Udo Diedrichs with support of Tobias Kunstein)go to documents area of project 1
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationThe 3rd NEWGOV practitioner and stakeholder forum (20 April 2007) focused on issues of delegation and accountability with regard to EU agencies. The workshop’s goal was to present the hitherto results of NEWGOV sub-projects dealing with agencies to practitioners in order to disseminate these findings on the one hand, and to receive feed-back and comments from an inside perspective on the other.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Project 2: The Open Method of Co-ordinationIn EU parlance, ‘Information Society’ designates policy areas covered by both Community and exclusively national competence. Consequently, the field is characterised by strong regulatory and weak voluntary governance. Taking the national experience of telecommunications legislation and regulation (as the ‘backbone of Information Society policy), an area of strong Community regulatory competence, and the eEurope agenda, an area dominated by weak voluntary action and the open method of coordination (OMC), this working paper will compare case studies from France and Ireland.go to documents area of project 2
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Workshop, Brussels, 20 April 2007The Practitioner Forum will in particular assess the role of European Agencies in new modes of governance. Practitioners from the European Institutions will comment on papers presented by NEWGOV researchers. Participation is restricted but the workshop is open to the public.Download Programme
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Brussels, 3 November 2006, Fondation UniversitaireThe 2nd NEWGOV ‘Practitioners Forum’, held on 3 November 2006 in Brussels, brought together researchers and EU officials in a workshop focusing on Justice and Home Affairs, Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Social Dialogue and Pensions Reform. An interesting aspect of the meeting was that all projects presented are working in a very empirical manner. This should be further stressed to exploit the comparative perspective NEWGOV offers. Focusing on the Emergence and Evolution of Governing Modes, typical patterns and specificities of sectors will form a framework to comparatively assess different modes in terms of their legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency. Adding together the results of the single policy fields, NEWGOV will provide deeper insight in the evolution of the whole EU system.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Project 3: Arguing and Persuasion in EU GovernanceIn this paper, written by Mareike Kleine and Thomas Risse, the focus is on two basic models for treaty revisions, namely Intergovernmental Conferences (IGC) on the one hand, and the combination of an IGC with a Convention as its preparatory body on the other. It asks, whether and how the Convention may add legitimacy to the original intergovernmental procedure.go to Cluster 1 Website
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesWithin the framework of project 1 a set of policy memorandums have been published, focussing on the emergence and evolution in policy fields such as economic policy, budgetary and redistributive modes of governance, and Justice an Home Affairsgo to Cluster 1 Website |
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Brussels, 3 November 2006, Fondation UniversitaireThe second NEWGOV Practitioners Forum will focus on "Old and New Modes of Governance: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy". Practitioners from the European Institutions will discuss with NEWGOV researchers governance modes in the areas of JHA, CFSP, and social policy.download final programme
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Cluster 1: Emergence, Evolution and EvaluationThe aim of the report is not an overall description of the academic debate in the different policy areas and fields of interest as such – some of that might be included – but rather a reflection of the basic patterns, conditions and tools for decision-making and -implementation, as well as their dynamic development over the years. Thus, the report tries to provide a more subtle understanding of the basic problems of EU governance. As a work in progress, the updated state of the art report reflects developments on the basic scientific problems related to EU governance which are adressed by the Cluster. It will provide the reader with the background to follow the lines of discussion which have emerged among cluster participants.go to documents area of Cluster 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThis working paper, written by Kalmán Dezseri, summarises the findings of five background papers, which aimed at analysing the similarities and differences in governance and issues of governability, accountability and legitimacy in the area of structural and cohesion policies of the new member states. It is accompanied by a paper by Krisztina Vida on the Emergence and Evolution of these policies on the European Level.go to documents area of project 1 |
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesTraditionally, the European social dialogue has been studied by experts in its interprofessional dimension. Yet, the sectoral social dialogue has attracted less attention until now. Observatoire social européen has created a database including all the joint documents signed by the social partners at European level covering the 31 official sectoral committees and the interprofessional social dialogue. From this quantitative analysis we can detect certain overall trends on the emergence and evolution of the sectoral social dialogue and compare its dynamics with those of the interprofessionnal dialogue.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 2: The Open Method of Co-ordinationThis paper by Colin Shaw and Brigid Laffan examines how new modes of governance measure up to other governing modes. Faced with complex policy challenges, how does non-binding coordination compare to binding coordination. Have OMC-type processes been successful where they have been applied and do they represent an attractive alternative to policy makers? These questions will be analysed with respect to two policy fields; Information Society (IS) and Research (R&D).go to documents area of project 2
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe development of EU governance in the domain of justice and home affairs (JHA) since the Treaty of Amsterdam is marked by a number of determining factors specific to this domain such as the diversity of the policy fields covered, a particular focus on cooperation and coordination issues, a strong operational dimension and the artificial divide between the “first” and third pillar” fields. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the texts adopted by the JHA Council in the period 1999 to 2005, the working paper, written by Jörg Monar, distinguishes four modes of governments: tight regulation, framework regulation, target setting and convergence support. As regards main trends, considerable variations of the ratio between the use of binding and non-binding measures can be observed as well an increasing blurring of the divide between the (communitarised) “first” pillar fields (Title IV TEC) and the (intergovernmental) “third” pillar fields can observed which can be interpreted as a pragmatic reaction to the different constraints in the individual fields.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe emergence and evolution of intergovernmental modes of governance in CFSP represents the background against which processes of change and transformation in EU foreign policy governance may be assessed. The memorandum, written by Udo Diedrichs, combines an analysis of the main steps and stages in the evolution of governance in CFSP, before presenting a number of recommendations and options for policy-making.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 4: Democracy & New Modes of GovernanceThe working paper, written by Anne Peters and Isabella Pagotto, approaches the concept deductively after a brief review of the history and typology of soft law in public international law. It rejects the binary view and subscribes to the continuum view. Building on the idea of graduated normativity and on the prototype theory of concepts, it submits that soft law is in the penumbra of law. An examination of the soft legal consequences of a disregard of soft law shows that compliance control mechanisms for hard and soft international law are converging. Moreover, some factors of compliance are independent of the theoretical hardness or softness of a given norm.go to documents area of project 4
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThe emergence of intergovernmental modes of governance in CFSP represents the background against which processes of change and transformation may be assessed. Thus, the paper by Udo Diedrichs describes the initial steps of institutionalisation of European Political Cooperation (EPC), then focuses on the creation of CFSP, in order to analyse the driving forces, the key motivations and the crucial conditions for the establishment of intergovernmental governing modes, as well as the dynamics of change and reform which led to a redefinition of basic institutional and procedural provisions.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThis paper, written by Holger Bähr, Oliver Treib, and Gerda Falkner, sheds light on the evolution over time of different governing modes in two policy areas that are in many ways crucial for the everyday life of EU citizens: EU environmental and social policy. In order to explore the emergence and evolution of governing modes in European social and environmental policy, the present paper analyses the quantitative development of legally binding and legally non-binding policy outputs. It discusses the empirical findings against the background of the theoretical arguments and summarises the results of the analysis and considers their implications for future research.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 3: Arguing and Persuasion in EU GovernanceNew modes of governance focus on the inclusion of non-state actors in the provision of common goods, on the one hand, and non-hierarchical modes of steering on the other. In this paper the focus is on the latter dimension of these modes, and on one particular form of non-hierarchical rule-making, namely arguing and persuasion. The authors ask, which institutional scope conditions are particularly conducive to enabling arguing to prevail in negotiations and, thus, to affect both their process and outcome.go to documents area of project 3
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThis paper, written by Phillipe Pochet, focuses on two objectives of the NEWGOV project: to map all the existing documents in given policy fields and to reflect on the emergence and the evolution of new modes of governance in these specific domains. It is based on a database which includes all the joint documents signed by the social partners at European level. It presents the results of a quantitative analysis covering all 353 agreements adopted since 1978 at sectoral level and 52 at interprofessional level. From this quantitative analysis the author detects certain overall trends on the emergence of and evolution affecting the sectoral social dialogue and compares the dynamics with the interprofessionnal social dialogue.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesThis paper, written by Holger Bähr, Oliver Treib, and Gerda Falkner, analyses the expansion of the "Community Method" in European environmental and social policy. The paper describes the development of competences and decision-making procedures in these policy areas as well as the quantitative development of hard and soft law, and it relates this development to changes in decision rules in the two policy areas.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 4: Legal Perspectives on Democracy and New Modes of GovernanceThe paper by Stefan Griller and Elisabeth Rumler-Korinek analyses the transformations of today's democratic systems and discusses options to reduce the so-called democratic deficit of the EUgo to documents area of project 4
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Project 2: The Open Method of Co-ordinationThis analysis by Brigid Laffan and Colin Shaw provides a systematic map of open method of coordination (OMC) processes across sixteen policy areas. Using content analysis of the documentary output of the main EU level institutional actors, a diachronic examination of OMC process with the context of the Lisbon strategy shows how selective political energies are shared among OMC’s and how these energies can be seen to wax and wane over time.go to documents area of project 2
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Project 1: The Evolution and Impact of Governing ModesUdo Diedrichs tries to systematically collect different conceptions of governance, their peculiar perspectives, and draws conclusions for empirical research on modes of EU governance in a variety of dimensions.go to documents area of project 1
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Project 3: 'Arguing and Persuasion in EU Governance'Two draft papers are available from the NEWGOV project on 'arguing and persuasion in EU Governance'. Mareike Kleine's paper, presented at the ECPR joint session in Granada, April 2005, deals with the crucial role the Praesidium of the European Convenion played in building and reaching a consensus on the draft Constitution. The other paper is the project's contribution to the State of the Art report from cluster 1, written by Mareike Kleine and Thomas Risse. The focus is on the causal mechanisms for the effectiveness of arguing within the European Convention.visit project page
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