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The current NEWGOV Newsletter includes, inter alia, a presentation of the NEWGOV Cluster 4 as well as a summary of the research results of the NEWGOV Projects 18a and 23.download Newsletter
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Project 19a: New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EU (ECONPOL)The two papers are: “Coordinated wage adjustment in EMU: Is there a large-small divide?”, written by Waltraud Schelkle, Alison Johnston, and Costanza Rodriguez d’Acri, and “Macroeconomic and labour market governance – case studies of four countries: France, Germany, Sweden and the UK”, written by Iain Begg. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers involved in the integrated project on New Modes of Governance (NEWGOV), policy-makers and practitioners to explore different facets of labour market change since the establishment of EMU. It was held on the 16th of July 2008 at the premises of the European Trade Union Confederation in Brussels.go to documents area of project 19a |
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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 9: Choice and Combination of Policy InstrumentsBy developing a longitudinal and sociological analysis of the elaboration, selection and integration of the EU’s environmental and urban policy instruments since the early 1970s, the Working Paper critically examines the link between policy instruments and policy change and contributes to the understanding of restructuring forms of governance at the EU level. The report was written by Patrick Le Galès and Charlotte Halpern. Annexes VII can be obtained in a separate document on this website.go to documents area of project 9
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Project 20: STACEEThis report, written by Robert Hancké and Lucia Kurekova, analyses the massive political-economic transition in Central Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In many ways, the period of the mid-2000s when this project was conducted, was a good time to assess the establishment of democratic capitalism in the region. In May 2004, most of the Central European states had introduced democratic political systems and become functioning market economies, and many of them joined the EU as full members. Thus, in formal terms, the first (and often formative) stages of the transition were over, and this report analyses the effects of those first stages on the subsequent political-economic development in the region.go to documents area of project 20
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global GovernanceIn this article Stijn Smismans looks at whether the concept of ‘reflexivity’ can be useful to refocus the model of DDP. He argues from an analytical perspective that European governance shows regularly features of reflexivity, and claims that a normative use of the concept of reflexivity, mainly inspired by reflexive law theory, may help to refocus the model of DDP. Smismans analyses whether, given the difficulties and limits to realise direct citizen deliberation in European governance as proposed by DDP, the model of reflexive-deliberative polyarchy (RDP) may be more apt as a normative framework for European governance.go to documents area of project 11
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Project 15: Evolving Regional Governance Regimes (EVOLVIN)This report, written by Judit Keller, provides a longitudinal study of changing patterns of governance in six micro-regions in Hungary. The findings of this research indicate that the dominating trend was to move modes of governance from a non-hierarchical mode, including in integrated developmental policy making diverse local state and non-state actors in the early 1990s, towards fragmented and hierarchical modes of governance by the 2000s. By the time Hungary got closer to the EU accession NMGs had started to disappear from micro-regional governance in comparison to the early 1990s and only a few could survive the Europeanization of sub-national governance.go to documents area of project 15
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Project 8: European Public Services Regulation (EUROSERVICE)The aim of this workshop was to prepare a monograph devoted to the role played by the no-tion of public services in European regulation in general and in European energy policy in particular. To this aim, participants analyzed the third package of measures issued by the Commission on energy policy (2007) from different perspectives in order to evaluate the exis-tence of an European notion of public service.
The workshop took place on 4 July 2008 at Granada University.go to documents area of project 8
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Project 14: Smoothing Eastern EnlargementThe paper, written by Charalampos Koutalakis, seeks to identify the conditions under which non-hierarchical steering modes are effective alternative mechanisms of conflict resolution to hierarchical imposition in the framework of expanding the EU regulatory regime to new markets with highly heterogeneous demand and supply structures. We argue that the ‘political efficiency’ and ‘policy effectiveness’ of non-hierarchical steering modes is contingent upon the political capacity of the state to mobilise dispersed resources of private actors.go to documents area of project 14
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThis paper, written by Thomas L. Brunell, Carol Harlow, and Alec Stone Sweet, provides an overview of litigation activity under Articles 226, 230, and 234 TEC, and an assessment of the European Court’s consequent impact on integration. It should be read in conjunction with the paper, “Note on the Data Sets: Litigating EU Law under the Treaty of Rome,” which describes the data that has been collected and suggests various ways in which these data might be used.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force II
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Project 12: Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European EnlargementThe aim of the workshop was to communicate the central findings of Project 12 “Coping with Accession” to a broader audience of scientists, policy experts, and practitioners. In order to systematize the findings with other related projects within NEWGOV, but also beyond, paper givers were invited from other clusters of NEWGOV as well as from international experts working on the role of non-state actors in coping with the challenges of accession to the EU. Special attention was given to the role of civil society. It took place in Zeuthen, Germany, 3 – 5 July 2008.go to documents area of project 12
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Democracy Task ForceThe literature remains divided about whether, and if so how and to what extent, New Modes of Governance enjoy normative legitimacy and even confer it to the EU. This paper, written by Andreas Føllesdal, lays out some of the central normative concerns and indicates some of the relevant findings. The aim is neither to provide a comprehensive overview of the normative and empirical literatures, nor to critize them. Instead, these reflections only sketch one framework for how such work may later move forward.go to documents area of the Democracy Task Force
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Legal Task Force Ib: Which governance structures for European private law?The European University Institute would like to promote a more active role of the judiciary in the debate concerning the modes and scope of European legal integration. The two days conference is the first step towards a more structured cooperation with both national judiciaries and the European Court of Justice. The conference took place on 24 and 25 May, 2008, at the EUI in Florence.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force Ib
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Project 18a: Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform: National Social PactsThe new policy brief deals with the role of Social Pacts in European Socio-Economic Governance. Written by Martin Rhodes, the brief provides answers to the key questions of relevance for policy-makers, i.e. (1) why did some countries achieve pacts but not others, and what were the conditions for their emergence; (2) what were the advantages of such pacts for policy making, and what determined their persistence or failure; and (3) given new demands for economic adjustment 10 years after EMU began, does social pacting still offer a viable strategy for socio-economic governance?go to NEWGOV Policy Briefs
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Project 9: Choice and Combination of Policy InstrumentsTwo new policy briefs on public policy instruments have been published by project no. 09. Issue no. 32, written by Charlotte Halpern and Patrick Le Galès, deals with "Public Policy Instrumentation in the EU" in general, whereas issue no. 33, written by Charlotte Halpern, Sophie Jacquot, and Patrick Le Galès, focusses on mainstreaming as a policy instrumentgo to NEWGOV Policy Briefs |
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Project 18a: Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform: National Social PactsEuropean economies underwent major economic adjustment during the 1990s, combining reforms related to the preparation for EMU with welfare state recalibration and labour market deregulation. This paper, written by Sabina Avdagic, seeks to understand national variation in the strategies of adjustment during that decade, and in particular in the varied reliance on social pacts as facilitators of reforms. Why were such concerted agreements struck in some countries, but not in others? Using a fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) of fourteen European countries, this paper assess the explanatory power of leading hypotheses about the emergence of social pacts.go to documents area of project 18a
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawThe discussion of the Services Directive from 2004 onwards showed an unprecedented extent of politicization of a single-market issue. Coinciding with the 2004 Eastern enlargement round, the easing of the services freedom through the directive raised significant redistributive issues, given the differences in labour costs. The article, written by Susanne K. Schmidt, analyzes why mutual recognition is so controversial in services, arguing that the relationship among Member states, between governments and their citizens, and among differently regulated EU-citizens matters. Partly, the directive lessens the risk of redistribution through the institutionalization of administrative cooperation between the home and the host Member state. Partly, the directive fails as Member states may be forced to discriminate against their population in the name of the internal market.go to documents area of project 13
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NEWGOV Practitioner ForumIn the last ten years, EU regulation has been transformed. However, in order for regulation to be implemented, appropriate institutions also have to be established. This workshop looks at such institutions, notably for the regulation of markets in network industries. The implementation of public policies always raises questions of discretion and diversity. But, in the case of the EU these questions are particularly difficult because there is a strong tension between the creation of a single European market through centralised EU-level legislation and its decentralised implementation by often diverse and recently-reformed national -level authorities. In addition, there are strong national traditions of protecting domestic firms and economic interests. Thus the institutions for implementing EU legislation are particularly important and the topic of much current debate in Brussels. This policy workshop began by setting out different possible regulatory network models, before analysing the development of European Networks of Regulators in Telecommunications and Energy from the perspective of business, national regulators and the European Networks central administration. It concluded by looking at current debates and the potential for EU Agency and network plus solutions.download report |
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(EUROGOV No. C-08-02 and C-08-03)The two new EUROGOV papers are ‘Nothing but consultation: The place of organised civil society in EU policy-making across policies’ written by Sandra Kröger, and 'Lay people’s Europe: A Critical Assessment of the First EU Citizens’ Conferences' written by Laurie Boussaguet and Renaud Dehousse. For abstracts and download, go to the EUROGOV website.go to EUROGOV Website (external link) |
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeBanks play a special role as providers of informative signals about the quality and value of their borrowers. Such signals, however, have a quality of their own as the banks’ selection and monitoring abilities differ. Using an event study methodology, the paper – written by Steven Ongena and Viorel Roscovan – studies the importance of the geographical origin and organization of the banks for the investors’ assessments of firm’s credit quality and economic worth during loan announcements. The sample comprises 986 U.S. firms over a period of 1980-2003.go to documents area of project 21
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThe NEWGOV Legal Task Force has compiled and made available, for free and open use, three data bases on litigating EU law under the Treaty of Rome. The data sets, and their re-spective codebooks, are on-line at this website. This note provides a summary of these data, and briefly discuss various purposes for which they might be used.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force II
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3 - 5 July, 2008, Zeuthen near Berlin, GermanyThe NEWGOV Follow-up Workshop “Civil Society, New Modes of Governance and Enlargement”, organised by Cluster 3 coordinator Tanja Börzel, is a continuation of the workshop that took place in early May, 2008. The workshop will prepare the submission of a manuscript for a special journal issue. This special issue, a cross-cluster activity of NEWGOV, will explore the relationship between NMG and civil society in the context of Eastern enlargement. On the one hand, the EU induced emergence of NMG may provide civil society actors with a new opportunity structure that empowers them in domestic policy-making. On the other hand, civil society actors are crucial to make NMG work. One set of papers adopt a top-down perspective, while the others approach NMG and civil society from the bottom-up. They also cover different policy areas: environment, regional policy, and social policy. Participation is restricted.download programme
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(lreg-2008-2 and lreg-2008-3)We are pleased to announce the publication of two new articles in the Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG): Klaus H. Goetz and Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling: The Europeanisation of national political systems: Parliaments and executives (lreg-2008-2); and Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer: The EU’s competences: The ‘vertical’ perspective on the multilevel system (lreg-2008-3). At the journal website you have access to the abstracts and full texts (HMTL and PDF). LREG is an innovative E-journal, publishing solicited state-of-the-art articles in the field of European governance research that are fully refereed according to highest international standards, and will always be kept up-to-date by their authors. It is jointly published by CONNEX and NEWGOV.go to LREG website (external link) |
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeThe study, written by Steven Ongena, Viorel Roscovan, Wei-Ling Song, and Bas J. M. Werker, is concerned with the effect of bank loan announcements on the borrowing firms’ bond and equity prices. The sample consists of 896 loan deals signed between 1997 to 2003 involving 364 different U.S. firms. It reports the first comprehensive evidence that also firm bond prices react to bank loan announcements. The analysis provides an estimate of the net impact on firm value of bank loan announcements, between minus 5 bps for riskier and smaller firms and plus 18 bps for safer and larger companies.go to documents area of project 21
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Project 24: Accountability/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThe following case study, written by Heiko Pleines, examines how Czech environmental NGOs cope with these eligibility criteria of the European Commission and namely the challenge of accountability. With that the focus is on legal accountability of civil society organisations. Legal accountability pertains to the forms of participation in policy making and implementation. It concerns the legality of the means employed to influence decisions. It is opposed to political accountability which concerns responsibility for the contents of political decisions and refers to participants in the formal political decision-making process.go to documents area of project 24
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Four new Policy Briefs (nos. 28-31) have been published by the NEWGOV Consortium. The NEWGOV Policy Brief Series has been set up to aid the dissemination of research results to a broader academic and especially practitioner community beyond the Consortium.go to Policy Briefs section |
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The current NEWGOV Newsletter includes, inter alia, a presentation of the NEWGOV Cluster 3 as well as a summary of the research results of the NEWGOV Projects 14 and 17.download Newsletter
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Project 24: Accountability/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThe focus of this paper, written by Joanna Einbock, Gesine Fuchs, Heiko Pleines, is on the European activities of the two largest Polish trade union federations. The crucial questions discussed are: How are Polish trade unions represented at the European level?; What problems do they face?; What successes have they scored two years after Poland’s accession to the EU? The paper was published as KICES Working Papers, No. 7 – December 2006.go to documents area of project 24
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Tomasz Grzegorz GrosseThe Institute of Public Affairs has initiated the publication of a series entitled ANALYSES & OPINIONS. By publishing short papers on topics important to Poland and Europe it wishes to enhance even further its involvement in the Polish and European debate. The current paper on the Lisbon Strategy was written by Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, a researcher involved in the NEWGOV project no. 17.visit IPA website [external link]
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5 - 6 June 2008, Florence, EUIThe final Consortium Conference will be organised in Florence at the European University Institute on 5 and 6 June, 2008. The conference will serve as a final input into the synthesis report for the project as a whole. Participation is restricted; please contact NEWGOV for further information.go to Consortium Conference 2008
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(lreg-2008-1)Matthew Loveless and Robert Rohrschneider: Public perceptions of the EU as a system of governance. Since its inception, the European Union has stimulated many vigorous debates. This Living Review provides a state of the field perspective on the academic work that has been done to address the question of the perceptions of the European Union as a system of governance. It takes a broad scope in assessing the efforts of scholars and highlights significant theoretical and empirical contributions as well as identifying potential avenues for research. In order to understand perceptions of the EU, scholars have employed national-level frameworks of popular support, particularly partisanship and instrumental self-interest. As the number of members has increased, further research has taken a broader scope to include national identity, institutions, and attitudes regarding the normative and empirical function of both national and EU institutions. Additional works address political intermediaries such as parties, media, and elites. Finally, all of the works are fundamentally concerned with the supportive popular sentiment that underpins the EU’s legitimacy as a political institution. While there are far more works that can be practically included in this Living Review, we have attempted to construct an overview based on the dimensions that define this research as set out by significant contributions at the core of this literature.go to LREG website (external link) |
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29 - 31 May 2008, LisbonThe Workshop is organised in the framework of the NEWGOV Project 18a: "Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform: National Social Pacts". During the workshop, the authors of the case studies and experts will discuss and assess the work done since the beginning of the project. The workshop will be preceded by a public seminar with practitioners at the European Commission representation in Lisbon. The topic is: “Patterns of Social Concertation in Europe: Portugal compared with other European Countries”. The event is sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Lisbon.download programme
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Project 12: Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European EnlargementThis paper identifies factors that have promoted and impeded the effective adoption of and adaptation to the acquis communautaire in accession countries. Our comparative case studies on the implementation of six EU environmental policies in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Poland, and Rumania show that the adoption of and adaptation to the EU acquis communautaire has given rise to significant problems of effectiveness in all six countries. Implementation problems, first of all, result from the serious misfit, which many EU policies cause at the domestic level. Misfit, however, is only a necessary condition for implementation problems. The effective implementation of the EU directives in Southern and Central and Eastern Europe is ultimately dependent on state and non-state actor capacities and varies across time.go to documents area of project 12
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Cluster 3: Effectiveness, Capacity and LegitimacyThe workshop aimed at discussing the major findings of the projects along the main questions of Cluster 3. The cluster focuses on the role of new modes of governance (NMG) for the implementation of EU policies and EU primary Law in different types of states, “weak states” in particular, including Southern European member states, Central and Eastern European (CEE) candidate countries and associated states in the former Soviet Union and Northern Africa. Thus, the findings of the projects are most relevant to addressing the first and the third “E” (emergence and evaluation). The workshop took place from 31 January to 2 February 2008 at the Center for European Integration of the Freie Universität Berlin.go to documents area of cluster 3
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10 June 2008, The Centre, BrusselsIn the last ten years, EU regulation has been transformed. However, in order for regulation to be implemented, appropriate institutions also have to be established. This workshop looks at such institutions, notably for the regulation of markets in network industries. The implementation of public policies always raises questions of discretion and diversity. But, in the case of the EU these questions are particularly difficult because there is a strong tension between the creation of a single European market through centralised EU-level legislation and its decentralised implementation by often diverse and recently-reformed national -level authorities. In addition, there are strong national traditions of protecting domestic firms and economic interests. Thus the institutions for implementing EU legislation are particularly important and the topic of much current debate in Brussels.
This policy workshop begins by setting out different possible regulatory network models, before analysing the development of European Networks of Regulators in Telecommunications and Energy from the perspective of business, national regulators and the European Networks central administration. It concludes by looking at current debates and the potential for EU Agency and network plus solutions.
Participation is restricted, please contact us for further information.download programme
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23 - 24 May 2008, European University Institute FlorenceThe conference is the first step towards a more structured cooperation with both national judiciaries and the European Court of Justice concerning the modes and scope of European legal integration. The conference will be structured over two days. The first day will be devoted to a discussion of the role of National Supreme Courts and the ECJ in the creation of European private law. The second half a day should debate the potential for improvements in judicial dialogue between State Supreme Courts, the ECJ and academics. The medium term goal is to establish a stable dialogue between academics and the judiciary on the strategic issues concerning European legal integration and the relationships with third countries and international organisations. Restricted attendance, contact Anna Coda of the EUI’s Law Department.download programme
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Legal Task Force Ib: Which governance structures for European private law?The debate concerning the desirability and modes of harmonisation of European Private Law (EPL) has, until now, been mainly concerned with substantive rules. The link between rules and institutions suggests that governance of both the process of harmonisation and its outcome is necessary.
This book covers various perspectives on the challenge of designing governance for EPL: the implications of a multi-level system in terms of competences, the interplay between market integration and regulation, the legitimacy of private law making, the importance of self-regulation, the usefulness of conflict of law rules, the role of inter-governmental institutions, and the aftermath of enlargement.
The book has been published as: “Making European Private law – Governance Design”, edited by Fabrizio Cafaggi, European University Institute, Italy and Horatia Muir-Watt, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2008, pp. 368.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawThis working paper, written by Michael Blauberger, was published in the MPIfG Discussion Paper Series, no. 08/4.go to documents area of project 13
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeThe two working papers are: "Spillover of Corporate Governance Standards in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions", written by Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog, and "Public-to-Private and Private-Equity Transactions: The literature on LBOs, MBOs, MBIs and IBOs", written by Luc Renneboog and Tomas Simons.go to project description of project 21
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Deadline: 15 June 2008Advertisement for (post-)doctoral fellowships / Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe". Pending final approval by the German Research Foundation (DFG), a Research College on "The Transfomative Power of Europe. External and Internal Diffusion of Ideas in the European Union" will be instituted at the Berlin Center for European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, starting October 1, 2008. Program Directors are Profs. Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse.
In this context, we hereby advertise up to five post-doctoral fellows working in the research areas of "European Identity and the Public Sphere" as well as "Compliance with European Law, Conditionality, and Beyond." The fellows should have their PhD in hand by the fall of 2008. A limited number of doctoral fellowships (completion grants) is also available. The following materials should be submitted:
- CV and list of publications;
- Proposal for a post-doctoral project;
- Transcripts of degrees and other relevant material;
- Two letters of reference.
Please send your application to the following address:
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
Berlin Center for European Studies
Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel
Ihnestr. 22
14195 Berlin. Deadline: 15 June 2008more informatin (external link)
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8 – 10 May 2008, BerlinThe NEWGOV Cross-Cluster Workshop “Civil Society, New Modes of Governance and Enlargement”, organised by Cluster 3 coordinator Tanja Börzel and her team as well as Heiko Pleines from project 24, seeks to explore the societal preconditions, in general, and the role played by civil society actors, in particular, in the emergence, evolution and effectiveness of New Modes of Governance during enlargement. The aim of the workshop is to contribute to the comparative analysis and consolidation of research findings from different NEWGOV clusters and individual projects dealing with these issues. The workshop will be complemented by a Practitioners Event that will bring together specialist working in the state and non-state sector and contribute to the dissemination of findings of NEWGOV researchers during the last years.
Participation is restricted.download programme
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10 April 2008, BrusselsThe Dissemination Conference “Governance in the EU: Are we on the right track?” took place on 10 April 2008 in Brussels. The aim of this conference was to present the main achievements of the CONNEX Network and the NEWGOV project. Conference presentations are now available for download.go to the Dissemination Conference website |
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The current NEWGOV Newsletter includes, inter alia, a presentation of the NEWGOV Cluster 1 as well as a summary of the research results of the NEWGOV Legal Task Force on New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU law.download Newsletter
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More than 20 new Policy Briefs have been published recently by the NEWGOV Consortium. The NEWGOV Policy Brief Series has been set up to aid the dissemination of research results to a broader academic and especially practitioner community beyond the Consortium.go to Policy Briefs section |
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8 – 10 May 2008, BerlinThe NEWGOV Cross-Cluster Workshop “Civil Society, New Modes of Governance and Enlargement”, organised by Cluster 3 coordinator Tanja Börzel and her team as well as Heiko Pleines from project 24, seeks to explore the societal preconditions, in general, and the role played by civil society actors, in particular, in the emergence, evolution and effectiveness of New Modes of Governance during enlargement. The aim of the workshop is to contribute to the comparative analysis and consolidation of research findings from different NEWGOV clusters and individual projects dealing with these issues. The workshop will be complemented by a Practitioners Event that will bring together specialist working in the state and non-state sector and contribute to the dissemination of findings of NEWGOV researchers during the last years.
Interested researchers from NEWGOV and CONNEX are invited to submit abstracts of papers (ca 300 words) by the 26th of March 2008 to the workshop organizers. All selected paper givers (NEWGOV and CONNEX) will have their travel, accommodation funded by the NEWGOV budget.download call for papers
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(EUROGOV No. C-08-01)'On the politicization of the European consociation: A middle way between Hix and Bartolini', written by Paul Magnette and Yannis Papadopoulos. A debate has emerged between S. Hix and S. Bartolini on the plausibility and desirability of the politicization of the EU. By this it is usually meant a more important role for mass, competitive, and partisan politics both on the input- (expression of preferences) and on the output- (collectively binding measures and resource allocation) side of the European decision-making system. In this article, we argue that this debate does not sufficiently take into consideration the consociational nature of the EU. Comparing the EU to other consociational polities such as Belgium and Switzerland, we show that the politicization of the EU is not plausible along a bipolar logic, but that other forms of politicization are both plausible and desirable. We suggest the coupling of a system of politicized “negotiation democracy” with mechanisms of direct participation. With a number of institutional safeguards, such a coupling would help to cope with the limits of consociational systems, would remain compatible with the compound nature of the EU, and would provide value-added in terms of public legitimization of the European integration.go to EUROGOV Website (external link)
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31 January – 2 February 2008, BerlinAt this conference the projects participating in cluster 3 will present their major findings in light of the research agenda of the cluster. The conference is open to members of the Integrated Project who do related research. Moreover, other scientists, policy experts, and practitioners will be invited to participate and comment on the papers. The cluster conference shall not only help to communicate research findings among members of the cluster and the Integrated Project but also contribute to the dissemination of knowledge to other target groups, including the international scientific community, practitioners, and policy experts. Participation is restricted.download draft programme
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LREG is an innovative E-journal, publishing solicited state-of-the-art articles in the field of European governance research that are fully refereed according to highest international standards, and will always be kept up-to-date by their authors. The two new articles are: Barbara Finke on “Civil society participation in EU Governance” and Claes H. de Vreese on “The EU as a public sphere”.go to Living Reviews Section
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Project 8: European Public Services Regulation (EUROSERVICE)This paper, written by Hildegard GIMÉNEZ and Leonor MORAL SORIANO, summarizes one of the findings of the workshop 2 held in March 2007: the relationship between ex-ante and ex-post regulation in the electricity sector. In particular, it deals with the mechanisms of coordination established between the Spanish ex-ante regulatory agency in the energy sector (the Comisión Nacional de la Energía) and the ex-post regulatory agency (the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia). The paper highlights the importance of informal and non-institutionalised mechanisms of coordination.go to documents area of project 08
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(EUROGOV No. C-07-03)'The Importance of Actor Cleavages in Negotiating the European Constitutional Treaty' written by Madeleine O. Hosli and Christine Arnold. This paper aims to explore government preferences, cleavages, and pat-terns of coalition-formation among a variety of actors in the bargaining process on the European Constitution, across the range of twenty-five European Union (EU) member states. The study focuses on preferences concerning socio-economic policy-making and explores whether divisions can be discerned between preferences held by actors according to locations on the left-right policy scale, actors in older as compared to newer EU states, net EU budget positions, domestic rates of support for European integration, and smaller as compared to larger states. The analysis also controls for possible external effects, such as recent domestic macro-economic developments. Finally, the paper explores, while focusing on Article 3 of the European Constitution, which actors submitted collaborative contributions during the Convention process and whether or not they followed discernable patterns of collaborations between representatives of member states and political party groups.go to EUROGOV Website (external link)
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The third progress report covers the period between September 2006 and August 2007. This public version provides an overview on the major scientific achievements during this period, abstracts for the official written output and a list of publications from project partners. It is fully hyperlinked to all publicly available written output produced during the third project year.go to Progress Reports
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeThe article "Why do public firms go private in the UK? - The impact of private equity investors, incentive realignment and undervaluation", written by Luc Renneboog, Tomas Simons, and Mike Wright, will appear in the Journal of Corporate Finance. The article "Leveraged Buyouts in the U.K. and Continental Europe – Retrospect and Prospect", written by Mike Wright, Luc Renneboog, Tomas Simons, and Louise Scholes, will be published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.go to project description of project 21
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The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne is offering several postdoctoral fellowships in economic sociology and political economy. The fellowships will start in October 2008 and will be awarded for one year. The program is open to researchers from a variety of social science disciplines, in particular but not exclusively sociology and political science. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2008.go to vacancy 1 announcement (external link)
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Project 24: Accountability/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThis book, edited by Daniela Obradovic and Heiko Pleines, presents results of the project no. 24 research team which examines the impact of the EU eastern enlargements on EU governance structures involving the participation of civil society organisations. In this context, the focus is on questions of capacity and accountability in a multi-level perspective. The book is expected to be published in 2007.go to documents area of project 24
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Florence, European University Institute, 16-17 November 2007The workshop of Cluster 2 will again be dedicated to discuss accountability and legitimacy issues posed by new modes of governance. The contributors to a planned joint publication shall present their draft articles. On this basis the common conceptual and theoretical framework of the special issue shall be further developed. Participation is restricted.download draft programme
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Frank Schimmelfennig: Europeanization beyond Europe (lreg-2007-1)This article reviews the literature on Europeanization beyond the group of EU member, “quasi-member” and applicant states. It uses the analysis of Europeanization in the applicant states for membership as a theoretical starting point to ask if, how and under which conditions we can expect domestic effects of European integration beyond Europe. Focusing on Europeanization effects in the areas of regionalism, democracy and human rights, the article collects findings on the strategies and instruments as well as the impact and effectiveness of the EU. The general conclusion to be drawn from the theoretical as well empirical literature is one of low consistency and impact.go to Living Reviews Section
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Two new policy briefs have been published in the special NEWGOV series set up to aid the dissemination of research results. The issues deal with Pharmaceutical Harmonization in Central Eastern Europe and trends of modes of governance in EU Justice and Home Affairs respectively.go to Policy Brief Section |
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Warsaw (Poland), 26 October 2007The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is pleased to invite you to the NEWGOV International Seminar “New Modes of Governance in the New and Old Member States – Similarities and Differences”. The aim of the seminar is to reflect on the emergence, functioning and impact of new modes of governance in new and old member states. Participation is restricted, please contact either NEWGOV or the IPA.download final programme
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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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Democracy Task ForceDario Castiglione in his article “Forms of control and accountability in the politics of delegation” analyses the way in which the development of ‘new modes of governance,’ particularly in the form of ‘guardian’ institutio | |
