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Oxford University, 26 March 2009Organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, this workshop will take a closer look at new and non-obvious modes of governance in digitally networked environments. Specifically, it will explore what these modes are, how they work, and who or what controls them. The one-day workshop is open to postgraduates and post-docs from all departments and universities. Deadline for submitting a brief abstract (300 words) including name, affiliation, and contact details, is 20 February 2009. The activity is not linked to the NEWGOV project.go to call website [external link]
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The fourth and final progress report covers the period between September 2007 and August 2008. 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 final project year.go to Progress Reports
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Project 18a: Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform: National Social PactsThe final results of project 18a consist of a book manuscript (the related document contains the introductory chapter and a list of contents of the book), the book chapter on the re-emergence of national concertation in Europe in the 1990s (written by Martin Rhodes) and the book chapter on on logic and conditions of institutionalisation of social pacts (written by Jelle Visser). The final book will also contain the book chapter by Sabina Avdagic and revised country case studies from both Western and Eastern Europe, including Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Poland.go to documents area of project 18a |
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Legal Task Force Ib: Which governance structures for European private law?In the context of the current debate on the desirability and process of forming European private law (EPL), this book considers one fundamental question addressing its descriptive and normative dimension: does and should EPL pursue regulatory objectives beyond market integration? The editors, Fabrizio Cafaggi and Horatia Muir-Watt, argue that because national categories are of little help in grasping the characteristics of a multi-level regulatory system, it is necessary to link three perspectives: private law, regulation and conflict of laws. The book is scheduled to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in February 2009.go to documents area of cluster LTFIb
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Project 6: After Delegation - Regulatory Agencies and Network GovernanceCo-coordinating the single market and EU regulation is a complex task. Much work has focused on increased demand for EU regulation, be this from firms, governments or the European Commission. But, for regulation to be implemented, appropriate institutions for the greatly enhanced EU regulation also have to be established. This study has looked at such institutions, notably the European Regulatory Networks (ERNs) composed of national regulators in three sectors; Telecommunications, Energy, and Securities. The final report has been written by the two project leaders, David Coen and Mark Thatcher.go to documents area of project 6
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Stefano Bartolini, Taking 'Constitutionalism' and 'Legitimacy' seriouslyStefano Bartolini (Director of the Robert Schuman Centre where the NEWGOV consortium has been co-ordinated) has written a paper discussing insights gained in this context, focusing on issues of constitutionalism and democracy. You can now read this text recommended by Beate Kohler on the website of our former European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) working paper series.go to EUROGOV Website (external link)
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Democracy Task ForceThe central idea of the report, written by Dario Castiglione, is that without a supporting structure of democratic representation, the delegation of decision-making and controlling powers to expert-based agencies and regulators, and the reliance on private sectors’ self-regulation lack democratic legitimacy. The report offers a general account of the transformations affecting the ideas and institutions of democratic representation and accountability in modern politics. It suggests that NMGs and the delegation of power to non-majoritarian institutions are part of such new ecology of democratic representation and accountability.go to documents area of the Democracy Task Force
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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 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’ institutions and networks governance, poses a problem for democratic accountability. In “On accountability and legitimacy in the EU: Facing the issue of Assurance”, Andreas Føllesdal lays out a unified account of the complex and confusing relationship between legitimacy, democracy and accountability.go to documents area of the DTF |
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Legal Task Force Ib: Which governance structures for European private law?This is a comprehensive comparative study of self-regulatory practices across Europe. The purpose of the book is to give an overview of how self-regulation is framed in the legal systems of several member states of the European Union: The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Finland, Englang and Wales. The last working paper approaches the comparison among the data provided by the preceding national reports.go to documents area of the LTFIb |
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Taskforce on Legal Issues Ia: New Modes of Governance and the Relevance for EU LawThe collection of essays in the special issue of the Columbia Journal of European Law (issue 31.3, 2007) represents the results of a conference held in London in 2006. The aim of the con-ference was to develop a better understanding of how the increasing use of ‘new governance’ in the European Union has affected our understanding of law and the role of law.go to documents area of the LTFIa
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Legal Task Force: Litigating EU lawThe final databases and code books are now available of the following data sets: Art. 230 actions for annulment – applications for the judicial review of the legality of Community acts – filed with the European Court of Justice; Art. 234 preliminary references filed with the European Court; Art. 226 infringement proceedings (enforcement actions). The data sets, compiled by Alec Stone Sweet and Thomas L. Brunell, include data up to the year 2006.go to project description of the LTF2
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Project 22: Changing Governance Architecture of International Taxation (TAXGOV)This report, written by Claudio M. Radaelli and Ulrike S. Kraemer, presents the findings of the project on “The Changing Architecture of International Tax Governance”. Part 1 introduces the key research questions that have led the project to the choice of a specific theoretical framework, that is, strategic constructivism. Part 2 provides more details on the segment of the research project dedicated to the EU. Part 3 carries on with the governance approach to tax coordination and introduces the theme of policy learning in order to interpret recent dynamics at the OECD level.go to documents area of project 22
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Project 19a: New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EU (ECONPOL)A selection of articles, written by Waltraud Schelkle and Iain Begg within the framework of the NEWGOV project, have been made available on this website.go to documents area of project 19a |
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Project 18b: Distributive Politics, Learning, and Reform – Administrative PartnershipThe main aim of this report is to present the analysis of partnership case studies. In particular, we will address our attention to one specific aspect of the development of cooperative experiences, i.e. their consolidation process, with a particular focus on Italian public-private partnerships aimed at territorial development regulation. First, an articulate definition of partnership - derived from the existing literature on the topic - will be provided; second, a more specific framework for analysis will be presented and some research hypotheses will be formulated; third, a preliminary selection of cases will be presented and discussed. The paper is based on collaborative work of: Paolo Graziano; Maurizio Ferrera; Patrik Vesan, Matteo Bassoli, and Valeria Sparano.go to documents area of project 18b
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Project 18b: Distributive Politics, Learning, and Reform – Administrative PartnershipThe paper, written by Ida Regalia, is organized as follows. It first makes some preliminary and general specifications concerning the topic examined. It then concentrates on the subnational level of concertation, discussing the reasons for the emergence and spread through Europe of local partnerships and pacts, and presenting the forms identified in the empirical literature. The concluding section sets out proposals for the future development of the inquiry and provides some preliminary concluding remarks.go to documents area of project 18b
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Project 17: Democratisation, Capture of the State and New Forms of Governance in CEE CountriesThis report, written by Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, sums up a study conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) dedicated to analyzing governance in agencies implementing the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the rural area development policy. The study was conducted in 2006/2007 in three new EU member states: Lithuania, Slovakia and Poland. It aimed at analyzing the process of Europeanization of public administration - of changes in public institutions occurred as a result of the execution of EU policies and implementation of EU laws.go to documents area of project 17
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Project 17: Democratisation, Capture of the State and New Forms of Governance in CEE CountriesThe seminar took place on 29 August 2007 at the Foundation Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw. This seminar was devoted to presenting results of the two last projects: one concerned the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture in Poland and the second concerned the National Paying Agency in Lithuania.go to documents area of project 17
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Project 14: Smoothing Eastern EnlargementThe paper, written by project leader Charalampos Koutalakis, assesses the regulatory effects of participatory environmental networks on the patters of non-state actors’ involvement and the emerging forms of coordination in the context of regulatory policy making. It analyses the case of the IPPC technical working groups as a prominent case of delegation of regulatory competencies to participatory networks.go to documents area of project 14
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Project 14: Smoothing Eastern EnlargementThe paper, written by project leader Charalampos Koutalakis, summarises the major findings of the SEEIRA project. The project analyses the role of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) and networks in rendering the adoption of and adaptation to EU policies in Central Eastern European (CEE) and Southern member states smoother i.e. reducing the risks of implementation conflicts in ‘weak’ countries already during the pre-accession phase and after accession.go to documents area of project 14
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawThe European Union is passing a services directive where the principle of mutual recognition is conspicuously absent, at a time when effective liberalization seems ever more necessary. How do we explain this puzzle? Why has mutual recognition been put ‘on trial’? The article, written by Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Susanne K. Schmidt, makes three interrelated argu-ments. First, the initial draft directive overlooked the EU’s prior experience in this area, which is one of ‘managed’ mutual recognition. Second, the political context had changed sig-nificantly, with enlargement exacerbating the distributional consequences of the adoption of mutual recognition. Third, the final compromise succeeded precisely because it recovers the spirit of managed mutual recognition, albeit in a minimalist form. Nevertheless, final agree-ment has come at a price: the symbolic sacrifice of the principle of mutual recognition itself. Article appeared in: Journal of European Public Policy, 14:5 August 2007, pp. 717 – 734.go to documents area of project 13
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European & Global GovernanceThe task of this report, written by Stijn Smismans, is a structured comparison of civil society participation in the European Union (EU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the field of biotechnology regulation. More specifically, the goal is to assess to what extent the current participation of civil society organizations (CSOs) fulfils the democratizing potential inherent in new forms of participatory governance.go to documents area of project 11
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European & Global GovernanceIn collaboration with the European Economic and Social Committee, the ‘practitioners workshop’ on ‘Civil Society and Expertise’ took place on 16 July 2007. The workshop had the objective to create a forum for practitioners to exchange information and experiences on the relation between civil society participation and the provision of expertise in EU policy-making, with equally an element of reference to practices of the WTO.go to documents area of project 11
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Project 9: Choice and Combination of Policy InstrumentsThe report, which is in French with an extended English summary, was written by Charlotte Halpern. The article aims at critically examining the development of "new" policy instruments in the environmental policy field. It argues that policy instruments are not neutral, they are related to politization processes and have impacts of their own (like institutions) which structure the implementation process and policy outcomes. By developing a longitudinal and sociological analysis of the elaboration, selection and integration of the French environmental policy's instruments since the early 1970s, the article critically examines the link between policy instruments and policy change.go to documents area of project 9
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Project 8: European Public Services RegulationThe book El sector eléctrico en España. Competencia y servicio público, Comares, Madrid, 2007, edited by López, Maria Asunción Torres, Estanislao Arana García and Leonor Moral Soriano, is a collection of contributions made by participants of the first project workshop held in 2006.go to documents area of project 8
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Project 7: Governance and the EU Securities SectorThe two papers deal with the Lamfalussy Process and the institutional balance of the European Union. The draft journal article and the conference presentation, were written by Christian de Visscher, Olivier Maiscocq, and Frédéric Varone.go to documents area of project 7 |
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawMutual recognition is generally not mentioned in debates about new modes of governance, though it is an important alternative to hierarchical steering in the form of harmonization. Next to its broad use in the single market, mutual recognition has been transferred to justice and home affairs, and becomes relevant also beyond the European Union. The nine articles of this special issue, edited by Susanne K. Schmidt, discuss how far mutual recognition meets the criteria of new modes of governance.go to Website of JEPP (external link)
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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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Brussels, 16 July 2007, 09.00 – 18.00This workshop, organised by NEWGOV project no. 11, "The Role of Civil Society in Democratizing European and Global Governance ", brings together high-level practitioners from the EU, agencies, and civil society to discuss the work produced in this project and to bring in the practitioners’ perspective into the subject field. The workshop takes place at the European Economic and Social Committee. Participation is restricted, but please contact Stijn Smismans for further information.download programme
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Warsaw (Poland), 26 October 2007The Institute of Public Affairs is pleased to invite paper proposals for the 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. Researchers from NEWGOV and CONNEX are invited to submit abstracts of papers by 29th July 2007. Participants from NEWGOV and CONNEX without a paper are invited to register by 1st September 2007.download call for papers
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Project 12: Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European EnlargementThe paper, written by Tanja A. Börzel, argues that the accession countries of the Southern and Eastern enlargements have lacked two fundamental preconditions for the emergence and effectiveness of new modes of governance: state and non-state actors with sufficient resources to engage in non-hierarchical coordination to improve the effectiveness of public policy. This “governance capacity” has been largely taken for granted by the governance literature since it has almost exclusive focused on Western democracies. The paper develops the argument about governance capacity as a fundamental precondition for new modes of governance.go to documents area of project 12
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Project 8: European Public Services RegulationThe second workshop of the EUROSERVICE-Project took place at the University of Granada on the 26th and 27th of March, 2007. Two topics were discussed. The first topic was the study and validation of the European Community energy policy, especially focusing on the new package of measures adopted on the 10th of January 2007. Due to the fact that two of the main pillars of this package of measures are sustainable development and security of supply, the second topic of our workshop was the use of renewable energies, particularly wind power.go to documents area of project 8
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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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Paris, 21 and 22 June 2007This workshop of the CONNEX Network of Excellence is organised with the support of the NEWGOV Project and the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). It is convened, among others, by Patrick Le Galès, leader of the NEWGOV Project „Choice and Combination of Policy Instruments”.download programme
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Florence, 29 - 30 June 2007The conference at the EUI is organised by Deirdre Curtin (Utrecht School of Governance), Peter Mair (EUI) and Yannis Papadopoulos (Université de Lausanne)download programme
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Project 15: Evolving Regional Governance Regimes - EVOLVINThe workshop “Governing Regional Development – The governance of regional development and the new Structural Funds regulations in the old and new peripheries of Europe” took place at the European University Institute on 8 and 9 March, 2007.go to documents area of project 15
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Legal Task Force Team Ia - New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU lawEight Working Papers and an introductory overview - to be published in a special journal issue - represent the results of a conference held in London in 2006. The aim of the conference was to develop a better understanding of how the increasing use of ‘new governance’ in the European Union has affected our understanding of law and the role of law.go to documents area of LTF Ia |
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeSeveral new articles written by various members of the project 21 team dealing with Corporate Governance Issues are now available for download. They deal with Better EC Company Law Regulation, Socially Responsible Investments in general, and Socially Responsible Mutual Funds in particulargo to documents area of project 21 |
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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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Florence, 1-7 July 2007The training course, jointly organised by NEWGOV and the CONNEX-Network, focuses on questions of research design and methods in social science, in particular theoretically guided empirical research. It will include the deductive and/or inductive development of explanatory hypotheses, the specification of variables, the selection of cases, variable operationalization, the definition of data needs, methods of data collection (quantitative and qualitative), methods of data structuring and interpretation. The aim will be to enhance the general skills of the students involved and to bring the expertise of the invited scholars to bear on their particular projects and research designs. The course will be directed by Profs. Adrienne Héritier and Tanja Börzel.download programme
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Florence, 31 May - 1 June 2007The third annual Consortium Conference of the New Modes of Governance project is dedicated to parallel meetings of the clusters and discussions on cross-cutting topics.go to the conference section |
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‘Vienna School of Governance’ (ViGo), University of ViennaThe newly founded ‘Vienna School of Governance’ is a graduate school established by the University of Vienna. It focuses on a multi- disciplinary and multi-theoretical approach to the study of modern governance within a comparative framework. The ‘Vienna School of Governance’ offers a research intensive three year PhD programme on a fulltime basis. The call is now open for 12 positions for PhD-scholars starting in October 2007. Deadline for receiving applications is 30 May 2007. Accepted research students will receive a monthly scholarship and are freed from tuition. Students from all countries of origin are eligible who hold a university degree (at least equivalent to an international MA or Austrian ‘Magister’). For details concerning the research programme, admission and selection procedures visit the graduate school’s website.go to ‘Vienna School of Governance’ |
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(EUROGOV No. N-07-02)Fabrizio Cafaggi and Horatia Muir Watt: ‘The Making of European Private Law: Regulation and Governance design’. The current debate on the desirability and modes of formation of European Private Law ("EPL") is engaging a wide number of scholars and institutions. Current work concerns the search for a common core of EPL, the rationalisation of the acquis communautaire, the design of a European Civil Code. These ongoing projects raise at least two related questions concerning the challenges to Europeanisation of private law: First, what is the often implicit definition of private law standing behind the debate about the creation of EPL? Second, does the process of creation of EPL need some type of governance structure? In this paper, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of these two dimensions of the debate.go to EUROGOV Website (external link)
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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, Florence, 30-31 March 2007During the Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster 2, researchers from the projects of cluster 2 and members of the Democracy Task Force will present their research with a special focus on accountability and legitimacy questions. Participation is restricted.Download Programme
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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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8 - 9 March 2007, European University Institute FlorenceThe goal of the workshop is to discuss the intended and unintended ways Structural Funds regulations have influenced the evolution of diverse modes of governing regional development, including the evolution of diverse patterns of representing sub-national state and non-state actors in developmental decision-making. The workshop wants to focus on developments in the new member countries and contrast the experiences of the evolving new modes of governing regional development in these countries with experiences in some of the ‘old’ member countries. Special focus will be given to comparative discussions on cohesion countries in their consecutive programming periods and accession countries' experiences after their "first round" of developmental programming. Participation is restricted.Download Programme
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(EUROGOV No. C-07-01)‘Theories and core principles of Dutch democracy’ written by Ank Michels.
Democracies in Europe differ in what they see as being at the core of the democratic system. In some countries, citizen participation constitutes the fundamental tenet of democracy; in others, democracy is closely linked to pluralism and the protection of minorities. This paper tries to identify certain core principles of the Dutch democratic system that are reflected in the institutions and political culture that have to come to define the democratic system and are derived from the intellectual context in which the system emerged.go to EUROGOV Website (external link)
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Workshop, Darmstadt, 01-02 June 2007The workshop of the Network of Excellence CONNEX, the sister network of NEWGOV, aims to assess the current situation regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in European and non-European contexts and to identify driving forces in the company environment and on the company level determining the degree to which companies engage in these new modes of governance. At the same time, the effectiveness and legitimacy of such private self-regulation schemes will be investigated. The workshop will take place in Darmstadt, 01-02 June 2007. It will consist of a maximum of 15 paper givers, with additional interested participants. Deadline for paper proposals (max. 500 words): 9 March 2007. Additional information can be found in the call for papers.download call for papers |
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Project 23: Learning and Local Innovation SystemThis article presents the final results of project 23. The findings of studies of local economies can be applied to those concerned with 'shadow' and illegal activities. These need to be seen, not as situations with an absence of governance and markets, but as constituting particular kinds of governance, this often being concerned with ensuring the functioning of markets. A scheme for modelling this governance is proposed. This is then used to formulate a critique of most prevailing policy approaches to trying to counter the shadow economy and encourage the ‘emersion’ of firms from it. Some instances of policies that are better grounded in an appreciation of the reality of the shadow economy as a social order are also cited.go to documents area of project 23
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Project 7: Governance and the EU Securities SectorOn 13 June 2006 representatives of the Commission, the Parliament and the Council agreed on an amendment of the so called comitology decision introducing a new comitology procedure; the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. This new procedure will put the European Parliament on an ‘equal footing’ with the Council regarding the supervision and control of delegated legislation to the Commission in the field of co-decision. The purpose of the article, written by Josefin Almer, is to try and answer the following questions: What circumstances made the new deal on comitology possible? What were the incentives for the Council? In this article it is argued that it was the parallel development in the field of financial services that gave the European Parliament the ‘weapon’ it needed to make the Council accept an agreement on comitology.go to documents area of project 7
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The report by Martin Rhodes, member of the NEWGOV Steering Committee and co-leader of cluster 4, was written for the institute for public policy research. It undertakes an analysis of the EU’s progress and contemporary challenges, and proposes ways of renewing the project in four related domains: Europe’s economy, its ‘social dimension’, its political system, and its relations with the world. Rather than a crisis, or even malaise, it argues that the EU and its member states are facing an entirely manageable process of adjustment, which requires pragmatic, rather than grandiose, solutions.go to the ippr website (external link) |
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The NEWGOV Consortium successfully participated in a Commission call for proposals to enlarge the Consortium by a partner from the Targeted Third Countries. The European University at St. Petersburg has joined the Consortium and participates in the “Inside-Outside” project dealing with “New Modes of Governance in Relations with Non-Member States”. The study of EU-Russian co-operation conducted by the new partner will complement the comparative research which is being done by the sub-project and the Integrated Project as a whole. The NEWGOV project will benefit from the expertise of the new partner specialised in the co-operation between the EU and Russia. It will enhance the dissemination of research results to the Russian academic community and practitioners.go to project 16 overview
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The glossary of key terms and concepts used in NEWGOV provides the most relevant shared project terminology beyond the individual governing modes. The project glossary is to increase the accessibility of the research findings of the individual projects. However, researchers within NEWGOV might not always use the same definitions included in this glossary.go to glossary index |
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(EUROGOV No. N-07-01)‘New Modes of Governance in the EU: Common Objectives versus National Preferences’ written by Manuele Citi and Martin Rhodes. The working paper critically reviews the literature on New Modes of Governance and the OMC in particular. It also focuses one of its greatest deficiencies: the absence, hitherto, of a comprehensive, multi-level framework for analysis, capable of specifying the conditions under which OMC practices are likely to produce a convergence of member state policies on common objectives.download Working Paper (external link) |
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeSeveral new articles written by various members of the project 21 team dealing with Corporate Governance Issues are now available for download.go to documents area of project 21 |
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Project 19a: New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EUThe paper by Iain Begg explores the rationale for having an EU regional policy, distinguishing between constitutional, economic and political arguments. It reviews the effectiveness and discusses the wider context of cohesion policy. The article finally considers how to apply a test for susbsidiarity in regional policy. The paper was presented at the conference: Subsidiarity and economic reform in Europe, November 8-9, 2006, in Brusselsgo to the Conference Website
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Project 19a: New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EUThe JCMS special issue asks commentators who made seminal contributions to our understanding of the theory and practice of economic governance in the 1980s and 1990s to revisit their analyses with the benefit of hindsight. The special issues includes articles by: Waltraud Schelkle, Willem H. Buiter, Paul de Grauwe, John Driffill, C.A.E. Goodhart, Christian Joerges, Kathleen R. Mcnamara, Jean Pisani-Ferry, and Fritz W. Scharpf. It appeared in: Journal of Common Market Studies special issue (edited by Waltraud Schelkle), vol.44/No.4, pp.669-864.go to the special ECONPOL website
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The second progress report covers the period between September 2005 and August 2006. The 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 project year.go to Progress Reports
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Amsterdam, 7-8 December 2006The workshop will especially deal with the research hypothesis stated in the Scientific Objectives of the NEWGOV Project: “If redistributive, prisoners’ dilemma and institutionally deeply entrenched problems are at stake, new modes of governance are less likely to be effective.” Several NEWGOV projects explore this hypothesis, and the a key question for the workshop is then whether New Modes of Governance actually serve to reformulate or reconstruct policies in a way that they have low political salience and lead to conspicuous positive-sum games of efficiency-enhancing regulation.go to Cluster 4 Website
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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 24: Democratisation/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThis working paper is the third and final part of a series presenting the first results of a research team examining the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on governance structures involving the participation of civil society organisations. Starting from the thorough analysis of the situation at the national level, in this working paper we examine the engagement of civil society organisations from post-socialist member states in EU governance. The seven contributions cover the respective EU regulations as well as informal practices and focus on the capacity, impact and accountability of the civil society actors involved.go to documents area of project 24
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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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Project 18a: Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform: National Social PactsThis report links the empirical evidence from five country reports to the overall analytical framework. It assesses the relevance of the four central pillars of the bargaining model - bounded rationality, context-specific and changing preferences, non-unitary actors, and perceptions of power - for the real-world strategies of actors, tests the bargaining model itself, and presents the steps in order to improve the model. The conclusions relate the study to the general literature on social pact emergence.go to documents area of project 18a
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Project 19a: New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EUA set of articles by Iain Begg and Waltraud Schelkle (partly in collarboration with Deborah Mabbett), dealing with the ECB, the Lisbon agenda and 'fiscal philosophy', and EMU enlargement, have recently been added to the databasego to the special ECONPOL website
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Project 7: Governance and the EU Securities SectorThe report summarizes the results of the project that has been concluded in autumn 2006.go to documents area of project 7
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Project 9: Choice and Combination of Policy InstrumentsThis special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Governance (to appear in no. 1/2007) is concerned with the issue of public policy instruments. The articles adopt a political sociology approach, analysing policy changes by using a policy instruments framework. The special issue includes articles by Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès, Philippe Bezes, Olivier Borraz, Bruno Palier, Desmond King, and Christopher Hood.go to documents area of project 9
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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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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute has a new director. Since September 2006, the RSCAC is directed by Stefano Bartolini, successor to Helen Wallace. The director of the RSCAS also serves as chairperson of the NEWGOV Steering Committee and of the General Assembly.find out more about Stefano Bartolini
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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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Democracy Task Force (DTF)The problem of task-assignment, ineliminable in any moderately complex polity, is to determine the normative justifiable principles upon which the functions of government should be allocated to different levels. This paper, written by Albert Weale, reviews three approaches to this problem in the literature drawn from political theory. The first is pure proceduralism; the second the principle of subsidiarity; and the third the principle of functional competence. It is argued that there are problems involved in the first two. Proceduralism cannot stand on its own, and subsidiarity contains a bias to the near that it is difficult to defend. Functionality can be politically controversial to apply. None of the principles can be regarded as logically equivalent to one another, and democratic reflexivity suggests that all will be contested.go to documents area of the DTF
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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 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawThe debate on Europeanization focuses predominantly on the conditions for successful compliance with European secondary law. This article, written by Susanne K. Schmidt, argues that this focus captures insufficiently the implications of Member states being part of a multi-level system. By focusing only on measures of positive integration (market-shaping), and assuming that the nature of these commitments is precise, it is largely overlooked how negative integration (market-making) and legal uncertainty about the implications of European law constrains domestic policy-making.go to documents area of project 13
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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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Democracy Task Force (DTF)A currently influential account of international diplomatic negotiation construes such negotiations in terms of the logic of two-level games. The article, written by Deborah Savage and Albert Weale, explores the normative logic of such games, in terms of the obligations of fairness that diplomatic representatives owe to one another and the obligations of accountability that they owe to their constituents.go to documents area of the DTF
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Florence, 26-30 June 2006The first Training Course, jointly organised by NEWGOV and the CONNEX-Network, took place in Florence at the European University Institute, 26 - 30 June, 2006. Twenty-six participants from 15 different countries and 24 universities and institutes were trained on approaches to the study of governance, basic social science research, and presentation skills.download final programme |
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Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, 22 - 23 June 2006After almost two years of research, the ‘New Modes of Governance’ project convened its second annual Consortium Conference, 22 and 23 June 2006, at Montecatini Terme / Italy, close to Florence. The conference was organised around a selection of focused questions dealing with the Emergence, Effectiveness, Execution, and Evolution of New Modes of Governance.go to Conference site |
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Legal Task Force on "New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU law"The aim of Legal Task Force Ia is to provide an analysis for the NEWGOV project as a whole of the implications for law and legal and constitutional values of the development of new modes of governance in the EU and to explain the relevance of law and legal institutions for the operation of these new modes. It is within this framework that the present conference was organised to discuss and develop the earlier findings of the Law Task Force on the relation-ship between law and new governance. The conference took place in London, 30-31 May, 2006.go to documents area of LTF Ia
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Project 23: Learning and Local Innovation SystemsThe dissemination activity to a wider public, including practitioners, undertaken for this project was to hold a public conference to publicise the results of the research. It was held on 21 April at the Prato site of the University of Florence. Prato is a leading location for the textile and clothing industry of central Italy, where many of the ideas related to the development of public policy towards this sector were developed. It was therefore a particularly suitable location for an event on this topic. The conference was attended by about 200 people, including specialists in and students of local economic development of the University of Florence, and representatives of the textile industry of Prato and of the municipality.go to documents area of project 23 |
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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 12: Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European EnlargementThe aim of this paper, written by Tanja Börzel, is to summarize the main findings of the empirical case studies and discuss them in light of theoretical expectations. Most importantly, the paper seeks to find an explanation for the scarce emergence of new modes of governance in the accession process drawing on insights from the theoretical literature and the empirical cases of our study. It paper concludes with some considerations on why the initial theoretical expectations have not been fully met and discusses the implication for future research on new modes of governance in European enlargement.go to documents area of project 12
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Project 12: Coping with Accession: New Forms of Governance and European EnlargementThe workshop took place at the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels, on June 7, 2006. Its main goal was to present the major findings of the project on the emergence and effectiveness of New Modes of Governance in the implementation of four environmental directives in three Southern European and three Central and Eastern European countries. The major results were summarized in an interim report and discussed with policy experts and practitioners participating in the workshop.go to documents area of project 12
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Florence, 26-30 June 2006The programme of the training course, jointly organised by NEWGOV and the CONNEX-Network, includes state-of-the-art lectures on approaches to the study of governance, training in basic social science research and presentation skills, and presentations by the participants of their own research, be it PhD projects or NEWGOV and CONNEX-related research. The course will be facilitated by the following scholars: Renate Mayntz, Andreas Føllesdal, Wolfgang Wessels, Jelle Visser, and Adrienne Héritier. The call for applications is closed.download final draft programme
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Project 8: European Public Services RegulationThe paper, written by Estanislao ARANA GARCÍA, Leonor MORAL SORIANO, and María Asunción TORRES LÓPEZ, analyses the influence of the electricity internal market on the establishment of the Spanish electricity market. The comparison of both regulatory systems (i.e., Community and national law) draws an interesting outcome: the electricity internal market has been regulated in such a way that upholds the singularities of national electricity markets and the Spanish electricity market goes beyond the mandates of Community directives.go to documents area of project 8
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Project 23: Learning and Local Innovation SystemsDespite the generally depressed nature of the textile and clothing industry in southern Italy, there are cases of newly developing industrial districts which seem to be defying the trend. This paper, written by Andrea Valzania, examines the factors that seem to make this possible. This sector is one that is in crisis throughout the advanced world as very cheap producers in parts of Asia take advantage of collapsing trade barriers. In southern Italy these sector-specific problems are exacerbated by more general ones of poor quality infrastructure and local institutions, corruption, and even the involvement of organised crime in economy and polity alike. The successful cases in this context seem to be, in part, those where local political and associational leaders have been determined to institute a good local institutional context for firms. This is not therefore a story of completely autonomous local development, but it does indicate one of the likely ways in which local points of strength can connect to global markets.go to documents area of project 23
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Brussels, 7 June 2006, Fondation UniversitaireThe aim of the meeting is to present the first results of the scientific project “New Modes of Governance - Coping with Accession” (COPA) to scientists, policy experts, and practitioners. The COPA project explores how transition countries in Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe have coped with the challenge of accession. In particular, the study analyses the role of New Modes of Governance in the adoption of and adaptation to selected EU policies in the field of environment as an example of positive integration, and energy, as an example of negative integration.download draft programme
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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 6: After Delegation: Regulatory Agencies and Network GovernanceThe working paper, written by Mark Thatcher, presents data on the behaviour of regulatory agencies after delegation; it maps and analyses their relationships with elected politicians by looking at how the latter use their formal controls over IRAs, both in general and in two sectors, telecommunications and securities/financial services. Thus it examines nominations, departures, tenure of IRA members and resources.go to documents area of project 6
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeThree new articles written by various members of the project 21 team are now available for download. The papers deal with: "Transatlantic Corporate Governance Reform", "Shareholder lock-in contracts: Share price and trading volume effects at the lock-in expiry", and "Mergers and Acquisitions in Europe". All articles will soon appear in a book edited by project leader Luc Renneboog, Advances in Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006.go to documents area of project 21 |
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Legal Task Force II: Litigating EU lawThe data set contains information on all of the Art. 234 preliminary references filed with the European Court since the first reference in 1961 up to June 1998. It contains the first 3,714 reference filed, which invoke 4,974 separate claims of EC law. A codebook explains the entries in the data set.go to documents area of LTF II |
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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeFour new articles written by various members of the project 21 team are now available for download. The papers deal with: "The managerial labor market and the governance role of shareholder control structures", "The Equilibrium Content of Corporate Federalism", "Explaining the diversity in shareholder lockup agreements", and "Is Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Caused by Agency Costs or Asymmetric Information? Evidence from the UK".go to documents area of project 21 |
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Project 18b: Distributive Politics, Learning, and Reform – Administrative PartnershipThe first country report, written by Valeria Sparano, presents an analysis of Italian local partnerships aimed at promoting local development. The second country report, by Francesc Gibert, presents the Spanish case with respect to local partnership initiatives aimed at local development. It focuses in particular on the interaction between the local and national level of government in the formulation, adoption and implementation of local partnership pacts. The reports were written in Italian and Spanish respectively.go to documents area of project 18b
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Legal Task Force II: Litigating EU lawThis data set contains the first 1,435 Art. 226 infringement proceedings (enforcement actions) filed. In these, the European Commission raised 2,804 separate claims that Member States were in violation of one or more provisions of EC law. The data set includes information on, among others, the date, the target Member State, the legal domain or subject matter (e.g., competition, environmental protection, free movement of goods), the official docket number given to the case by the European Court of Justice, whether the enforcement action led to a judgement of the Court, is still pending, or was removed from the docket. A codebook explains the entries in the data set.go to documents area of LTF II |
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Project 22: Changing Governance Architecture of International TaxationThe report, written by Claudio M. Radaelli and Ulrike S. Kraemer, analyses the major events and developments in international direct taxation. It deals with the emergence of the ideational context in international tax policy, the scope of international tax governance, the question why governance in international taxation has become less technocratic and more political, and finally assesses what has been achieved in terms of learning, processes, and outcomes.go to documents area of project 22
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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 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global GovernanceThis website is dedicated to an informed discussion about the appropriate role of civil society in the institutions of international governance. It is not meant to be a forum itself. Rather, its aim is to link existing forums and resources that are scattered over the World Wide Web and to monitor current discussions. Our aim is to address a wider audience and to collect voices from many different sources.go to Website (external link)
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London, European Institute, LSE, 30-31 March 2006The workshop aimed to further theoretical and empirical insight into the working of laboratory federalism in three policy areas that are of particular relevance to EU economic governance: policy coordination through social partnership, tax policy and macroeconomic stabilisation.go to Workshop website (including presentations)
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Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, 22 - 23 June 2006After the successful first Conference in May 2005, this second Consortium-wide conference will again bring together researchers from all projects and Task Forces. The conference will be organised around a selection of focused four Es questions (Emergence, Effectiveness, Execution, Evolution). This will allow a systematic comparative discussion during the workshops and the plenary sessions so that transversal issues emerge more clearly. The conference will be attended by more than 80 NEWGOV researchers and invited guests.download draft programme
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Florence, European University Institute, 21 – 22 April 2006The workshop is organised in the framework of the NEWGOV Task Force Ib "Which governance structures for European private law?", led by Prof. Fabrizio Cafaggi, EUI Law Department.Email-Registration
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Prato, Polo Universitario "Città di Prato", 21 April 2006At the workshop members of the NEWGOV Project "Learning and Local Innovation Systems" team will present - in Italian - main results of their research.Contact Luigi Burroni for further information
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Democracy Task Force'Still in Deficit: Rights, Regulation and Democracy in the EUStill in Deficit: Rights, Regulation and Democracy in the EU' by Richard Bellamy and 'Democratic Values, Political Legitimacy and European Governance' by Albert Weale both deal with the issue of the democratic deficit of the EU.go to documents area of the DTF |
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(EUROGOV No. N-06-01)‘New Modes of Governance and the Participatory Myth’ written by Stijn Smismans. This Eurogov WP is also a deliverable from project 11, 'The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global Governance'go to documents area of project 11
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Legal Task Force: New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU lawA new set of working papers explore the emergence of new approaches to governance (‘new governance’) in the European Union along three main lines of inquiry: firstly, the examination of the actual operation of new regulatory forms in a number of specific policy fields or issue areas; secondly, the interrogation of the relationship between law and new governance; finally, the exploration of the relationship between new governance and constitutionalism. Collectively and separately, the papers try to address these issues by highlighting the nature and contours of the challenge new governance presents for law and for our thinking about constitutional values and structures. The papers, along with some others focusing more on the US, will be published in an edited collection during 2006.go to documents area of Legal Task Force Ia |
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global GovernanceThis paper, written by Stijn Smismans aims at providing an overview of the existing normative theories on the role of civil society participation in democratic governance. It shows how current theories on civil society do not fit well with the complexity of modern governance, in particular with multi-level governance in the European Union. Among different democratic theories, deliberative democracy may still come most close to providing an answer to the role of civil society in modern governance. While analysing the remaining weaknesses of Habermasian deliberative democracy and directly deliberative polyarchy to address this issue, the paper will propose the model of reflexive deliberative polyarchy.go to documents area of project 11
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London, University College, 26 May – 27 May 2006This workshop is organised in the framework of the NEWGOV Legal Task Force on "New Modes of Governance and the Relevance for EU law". It brings together the members of the LTF and other NEWGOV project partners.Contact D. Chatzimanoli for further information
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University of Amsterdam, 9-10 April 2006The meeting of the participants in the NEWGOV project 24 on ‘Accountability/ Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of Governance’ will take place at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. Project participants will discuss the definitive versions of their contributions to the book entitled ‘Eastern European Civic Groups in European Union Governance’, one of the planned project deliverables.Contact Dr. D. Obradovic for further information
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LSE’s European Institute Seminar Series academic year 2005-06The seminar series (October 2005 - May 2006) at the European Institute of the LSE focus on the political economy of European integration and features presentations/lectures by: Willem Buiter (LSE), Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel), Stephan Leibfried (ZES Bremen), John Driffill (Birkbeck), Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown), Paul de Grauwe (Leuven), Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi), Charles Goodhart (LSE), Fritz Scharpf (MPI Cologne), Christian Joerges (EUI). (revised announcement)Contact Waltraud Schelkle
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawOne characteristic of the recent enlargement round is that – with the exception of Poland – small countries have joined the Union. This article – written by Susanne K. Schmidt – takes Katzenstein’s (1985) classic study as its starting point and asks whether small countries have – next to institutional – additional advantages. Differentiating between absolute and relative smallness, it becomes apparent that small states are often dependent upon the exploitation of regulatory niches, which are eroding through membership in international organizations. It is concluded that political-economic advantages of small countries have to be differentiated – smallness does not automatically lead to advantages. (The article is forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, no. 1, 2006)go to documents area of project 13
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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 7: 'Governance and the EU Securities Sector'On 24 January 2006 a round table discussion was organised in Brussels, chaired by Alexandre Lamfalussy. The purpose of the round-table discussion was to get input from practitioners on the Lamfalussy-model and the research carried out within the project. The main result of the meeting was that the empirical findings thus far correspond to a large extent to how the Lamfalussy-model is perceived to function in its practical application.go to documents area of project 7
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Project 8: European Public Services RegulationThe first workshop of the EUROSERVICE-Project was entitled “The electricity sector in Spain: Competition and Public Service” and took place on 15 and 16 December at Granada University. It was devoted to the analysis of the liberalization process of the electricity market in Spain, and the way this process affect the traditional legal notion of public service.go to documents area of project 8
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Project 8: European Public Services RegulationThe paper (written in Spanish), written by Estanislao ARANA GARCÍA, Leonor MORAL SORIANO, and María Asunción TORRES LÓPEZ, analyses the influence of the electricity internal market on the establishment of the Spanish electricity market. The comparison of both regulatory systems (i.e., Community and national law) draws an interesting outcome: the electricity internal market has been regulated in such a way that upholds the singularities of national electricity markets and the Spanish electricity market goes beyond the mandates of Community directives.go to documents area of project 8
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Florence, 26-30 June 2006The programme of the training course, jointly organised by NEWGOV and the CONNEX-Network, will include state-of-the-art lectures on approaches to the study of governance, training in basic social science research and presentation skills, and presentations by the participants of their own research, be it PhD projects or NEWGOV and CONNEX-related research. The course will be facilitated by the following scholars: Renate Mayntz, Andreas Føllesdal, Wolfgang Wessels, Jelle Visser, Martin Rhodes, and Adrienne Héritier. Deadline for submitting the application is: 28 February, 2006.download call
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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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University of Exeter, Department of Politics, 27 February 2006The main aim in this workshop is to promote a high-level discussion among policy-makers, academics, and stakeholders on the concept of public interest in international taxation and its policy implications. Another aim is to broaden the discussion of the public interest in international and EU taxation by highlighting multiple dimensions. This aim will be achieved by structuring the workshop around thematic round tables. The assumption is that there are several contested notions of public interest, and that politically and intellectually it is important to examine how different notions impact on key dimensions of international tax policy.contact for further information |
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Project 24: Democratisation/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThis working paper is part of a series presenting the results of a research team examining the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on governance structures involving the participation of civil society organisations. In this second working paper the researchers focus on questions of accountability at the national level, distinguishing between its different forms and directions.go to documents area of project 24
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European University Institute Florence; 17-18 February 2006This second workshop of the NEWGOV Cluster 2 on "Delegation, Hierarchy and Accountability" will deal with ‘New Modes of Governance and the Shadow of Hierarchy - Functional Governance and Territorially Bound, Democratic Government’download programme
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(EUROGOV No. C-06-01)‘Analysing and Assessing Public Accountability. A Conceptual Framework’ written by Mark Bovens. This paper tries to get to grips with the appealing but elusive concept of accountability by asking three types of questions, thus providing three types of building blocks for such an empirical study. The paper provides three perspectives for the assessment of accountability
relations: a democratic, a constitutional, and a cybernetic perspective. Each of these three perspectives may render different types of accountability deficits.go to Eurogov Website (external link)
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Berlin, 9-10 December 2005The Workshop of the NEWGOV cluster three on "Effectiveness, Capacity and Legitimacy" focuses on the topic of 'state capacity'. Participation is restricted.go to cluster three description
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Florence, 2-3 December 2005The workshop is organised in the framework of the project “Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest (REFGOV)” by Prof. Fabrizio Cafaggi, EUI Law Department and Leader of NEWGOV Task Force Ia.download Programme
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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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(EUROGOV No. N-05-02)'Modes of Governance: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification' written by Oliver Treib, Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner: Recently, political science has seen an intense debate about the phenomenon of 'governance'. The aim of this paper is to clarify the basic concepts that are at the heart of this debate, notably 'governance' and 'modes of governance'. It argues that most contributions share a common concern for the relationship between state intervention and societal autonomy. But different strands of the literature highlight different facets of this continuum. Existing understandings may be classified according to whether they emphasise the politics, polity or policy dimensions of governance. We use these categories to present a structured overview of different dimensions of modes of governance as they may be found in the literature. In this context, we argue that the classification of modes of governance as 'old' or 'new' is of little analytical value. Some modes of governance may have been relatively new in some empirical contexts. But the same governing modes may turn out to be long-established practice in other areas. Moving from individual dimensions to systematic classification schemes and typologies of modes of governance, the paper highlights a number of shortcomings of existing schemes and suggests an approach that could avoid these weaknesses. As a first step in this approach, we take a closer look at different policy properties of governance and develop a systematic typology of four modes of governance in the policy dimension: coercion, voluntarism, targeting and framework regulation.go to Eurogov Website (external link)
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The first progress report covers the period between September 2004 and August 2005. The 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.download report |
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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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Taskforce on Legal Issues: New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU lawThis paper, written by David and Louise Trubek, seeks to develop a typology of situations in which new governance and legal regulation may co-exist, at least temporarily, outlines some of the dynamics that ensue, and states a few factors that may explain these dynamics. It is meant to point the way to further analysis and research on an issue that is becoming increasingly important as more and forms of new governance emerge in areas that have been, or might, be governed by traditional forms of law.go to documents area of Legal Task Force Ia
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Taskforce on Legal Issues: New Modes of Governance and the relevance for EU lawOne of the purposes of this essay, written by Neil Walker, is to map five key candidate relationships between constitutionalism and New Governance - the key dimensions of the relationship between constitutionalism and new governance, and to explain why each of them tells us something of importance about the peculiar regulatory dynamic of the European Union. The sketch is a cumulative one rather than a series of alternative visions, since each of the five addresses a connection (or a disconnection) which speaks plausibly to one aspect of the EU’s situation.go to documents area of Legal Task Force Ia
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Project 22: Changing Governance Architecture of International TaxationThis chronology of tax events, prepared by Claudio Radaelli and Ulrike Kraemer, provides a description of the main events since the 1960s looking at a wide range of actors and initiatives.go to documents area of project 22
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawIn this report, Susanne Schmidt and Michael Blauberger analyse the role of the ECJ and the European Commission in the areas of mutual recognition of goods and services and the control of state aid. The start by explaining the focus of the project and then turn to the relevance of new modes of governance. Thirdly, they expand on the development of the legal reasoning in the areas of their study. The report closes with a few observations and puzzles for future work.go to documents area of project 13
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Project 14: 'Smoothing' Eastern Enlargement through New Modes of Governance?'The seminar was organised during the Summer Semester 2005 at the Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University Berlin. In this seminar students were asked to focus on theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of new governance modes in the EU. The report provides a short overview on the seminar, including the programme, reading list and a short summary of the outcomes.go to documents area of project 14
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Concluding Conference of the CIDEL-Project, Florence, 22-24 September 2005CIDEL (Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU) is a joint research project between nine partners in six European countries. The project is co-ordinated by ARENA at the University of Oslo and financed by the Fifth Framework Programme. The concluding conference was structured along the following sections: What Kind of Order is Emerging in Europe?, Europe's Unfinished Agenda, What Kind of "Social Union" is Europe Envisaging?, The Search for European Identity, Post-National Democracy?. Conference papers are available for download.go to conference website (external link)
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global GovernancePaper prepared by Jens Steffek & Ulrike Ehling for the 3rd ECPR General Conference, Budapest, 8-10 September 2005. The paper seeks to assess whether the existing practice of civil society participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is mitigating its democratic deficit.go to documents area of project 11
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Brussels, 6 - 7 October 2005At the annual research conference of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the Commission of the European Union, Iain Begg (LSE, NEWGOV researcher), presented the paper ‘Catch-Up, the transition to full participation in EMU and financial stability’).download paper (external link)
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LSE’s European Institute Seminar Series academic year 2005-06The seminar series (October 2005 - May 2006) at the European Institute of the LSE focus on the political economy of European integration and features presentations/lectures by: Willem Buiter (LSE), Jean Pisani-Ferry (Bruegel), Stephan Leibfried (ZES Bremen), John Driffill (Birkbeck), Kathleen McNamara (Georgetown), Paul de Grauwe (Leuven), Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi), Charles Goodhart (LSE), Fritz Scharpf (MPI Cologne), Christian Joerges (EUI).Contact Waltraud Schelkle
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Legal Task Force on ‘Which governance structures for European private law?’This project on regulatory strategies and governance in European private law is part of a wider integrated research on New Modes of Governance. The wider research brings to bear an interdisciplinary, comparative perspective on the study of contemporary transformations of instruments, methods, modes and systems of governance in Europe. New modes of govern-ance include a wide range of different policy processes such as open methods of coordination, voluntary accords, standard setting, regulatory networks, regulatory agencies, regulation through information, bench-marking, peer-review, mimicking, policy competition, and infor-mal agreements. They also cover new mixes of policy process involving public and private actors.go to documents area of the Legal Task Force II
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Florence, EUI, 7-8 October 2005Conference organised by NEWGOV Legal Task Force 1 and the Academy of European Lawdownload Programme
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Darmstadt, 1-3 November 2005Several NEWGOV Researchers will present research results as this workshop of the sister network CONNEXgo to CONNEX website for further information |
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Project 24: Democratisation/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThe article by W.T. Eijsbouts examines the impact of the EU Constitution upon allegiance of civil groups.go to documents area of project 24
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Project 24: Democratisation/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThis article by Daniela Obradovic is intended to highlight the distinction between the concepts of the social and civil dialogue in the European Union and to evaluate the impact thereof upon its governance.go to documents area of project 24
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Project 11: The Role of Civil Society in Democratising European and Global GovernanceThis report, written by Jens Steffek and Ulrike Ehling, reviews new modes of civil society participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO). It focusses on the trade-related aspects of the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This case study is designed to assess the practice of civil society consultation in one specific - and highly contested - policy field.go to documents area of project 11
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Project 9: Choice and Combination of Policy InstrumentsThe conference on Public Policy Instruments took place in December 2004 in Paris. The "Gouverner par les instruments", edited by Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès was published in French at Presses de Sciences Po in January 2005.go to documents area of project 9 |
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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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Democracy Task ForcePaper presented by Andreas Follesdal at the NEWGOV Consortium Conference in May 2005. The paper will feed into the article "The Legitimacy Deficits of the European Union" which will published in the Journal of Political Philosophy.go to documents area of the DTF
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Article by Waltraud SchelkeWaltraud Schelkle presented a paper on 'How can we understand economic governance in the EU?' at the UACES conference in Zagreb, 5-7 September 2005go to documents area of project 19a
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Project 13: The Domestic Impact of European LawThe basic premise of this paper is that Europeanization is more than transposition and implementation. The effects of European Union membership in the member states are felt also in more indirect ways, for instance in the unintended consequences of European legislative acts. Conceptualizing European law as a set of constraints on domestic policy options, this paper analyses the nature of these constraints and the types of conflicts between the new member states and the European Commission which may result from the presence of these constraints.go to documents area of project 13
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EUROGOV No. N-05-01‘The Emergence and Evolution of Social Pacts: A Provisional Framework for Comparative Analysis’ written by Sabina Avdagic, Martin Rhodes and Jelle Visser. This paper provides the scientific framework for the NEWGOV project Distributive Politics, Learning and Reform.go to the EUROGOV Homepage |
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Project 19b: 'The Politics of Central Bank Accountability in the Age of Globalization'The paper compares the institutional setting of the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. It argues that similarities between the two frameworks can actually be read as the outcomes of similar political dynamics and concerns, rather than of an overwhelming economic rationality. In addition, certain key differences remain that can be interpreted as the products of enduring institutional differences between the US and the EU.go to documents area of project 19b
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Project 15: Evolving Regional Governance RegimesWithin the EVOLVIN project, the first paper outlines a conceptual framework for the discussion of diverse modes of governing regional development and contrasts the evolution of the regional developmental regimes in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland prior to the introduction of the rules and procedures of the EU’s regional policy making and implementation regime - the oldest of the ‘new forms of governance’ within the EU. The other three papers are extensive empirical analyses for the three countries examinedgo to documents area of project 15
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Article by Claudio Radaelli and Ulrike Kraemer"Shifting Modes of Governance: The Case of International Direct Taxation". Paper prepared for the International Workshop on "The Transformation of the Territorial State: Changes in and Challenges to National Control over Police and Taxation", International University Bremen, June 17-18, 2005go to documents area of project 22 |
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In order to facilitate the access to publicly available project output, a new download section has been created.go to download area |
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8-11 September 2005, BudapestSeveral NEWGOV researchers will attend the forthcoming Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and present NEWGOV research results. The NEWGOV Project 'Smoothing Eastern Enlargement: Independent Regulatory Agencies and Non-Hierarchical Steering' organises a panel on 'Adopting and Adapting to EU policies in Southern and Central Eastern Europe'.download panel programme of project no. 14
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EUROGOV No. C-05-04Social Europe and Experimentalist Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?’ written by Jonathan Zeitlin. The paper examines the normative, empirical and constitutional debates surrounding the use of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in European social policy. It argues that both the democratic legitimacy and the practical effectiveness of existing OMC processes could be improved by reflexively applying to its own procedures key elements of the method itself, such as benchmarking, peer review, monitoring and iterative redesign.go to the EUROGOV Homepage |
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Articles by Claudio Radaelli and Ulrike KraemerTwo conference papers are available for download on the NEWGOV Website: 'Who learns what? Policy learning and the Open Method of Coordination' by Claudio Radaelli and 'The Rise and Fall of Governance’s Legitimacy: The Case of International Direct Taxation' by Claudio Radaelli and Ulrike Kraemer.go to documents area of project 22 |
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30-31 May 2005, FlorenceAt the first Consortium Conference more than 80 participating reseachers discussed the overall scientific objectives of the Integrated Project and advanced the research on the cluster and task force levels. This two-day meeting included joint opening and concluding sessions as well as a full day for parallel meetings of the four clusters and the two task forces.to go Conference page |
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9 June 2005, TurinThis seminar builds on some of the extensive research findings now presented in the book 'The Open Method of Co-ordination in Action' edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Philippe Pochet, with Lars Magnusson and focuses on two highly developed OMC processes: the European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies. Alongside the empirical assessment of the OMC processes, the workshop will discuss the role of the method within the Lisbon strategy and the future of EU social governance in general, in the aftermath of the 2005 Spring European Council and in view of the stance of the Barroso Commission. The seminar is organised by the ‘Research Unit on European Governance’ of the Carlo Alberto Foundation, affiliated to NEWGOV through our partner Maurizio Ferrera (Uni Bocconi) and project 18 on ‘Distributive Politics: Experimentation, Learning and Reform’.download programme
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EUROGOV No. C-05-03 'Popular Democracy and the European Union Polity' written by Peter MairAlthough we still celebrate the late twentieth-century ‘victory of democracy’, our understanding of what democracy entails in both theory and practice is increasingly subject to a variety of qualifying definitions, many of which now seem to devalue the role of elections and electoral accountability. This is also obviously seen in the politics of the European Union, where the efforts to displace conflict dimensions into arenas where democratic authority is lacking, as well as the efforts to depoliticize issues that relate to European integration, have led to the development of a distinct political system in which the exercise of popular control and electoral accountability proves very difficult. At the same time, the EU should not be seen as exceptional in this regard, but should instead be seen as symptomatic of a wider process of depoliticization. As the experience of the EU suggests, the combination of popular democracy and legitimacy is proving increasingly problematic - not only in Europe, but also further afield.go to the EUROGOV Homepage |
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10 May 2005The workshop will take place at the Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw. It will include sessions on 'The impact of socialism on the administrative culture during the transition period - the case of Poland', 'New Modes of Governance - basic definitions and hypotheses for national reports', as well as on the case studies to be carried out within the project. By invitation only.visit project page |
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Project 24: Democratisation/Participation of Civil Society in New Modes of GovernanceThis working paper presents the first results produced by a research group examining the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on governance structures involving the participation of civil society organisations. It is devoted to the state of civil society in the new EU member countries with a socialist past, focusing on the capability of civil society organisations in these countries to participate in old and especially new modes of governance at the national as well as at the EU level. (Papers written by Heiko Pleines, David Lane, Michal Federowicz, and Zdenka Mansfeldová)visit project page
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Project 14: 'Smoothing' Eastern Enlargement through New Modes of Governance?'The aim of this paper written by Charalampos Koutalakis is to identify theoretically driven hypotheses related to the factors (independent variables) that explain the conditions under which 'new forms of governance', with emphasis on regulatory agencies and networks, are able to render accession 'smoother'. Second, it provides a preliminary account of the validity of our hypotheses though an exploratory case study that focuses on a case of delegation of regulatory competencies to a participatory network in the area of environmental policies, that is the IPPC Seville process.visit project page
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31 March - 2 April 2005, Austin, Texas (USA)Two presentations of NEWGOV researchers are now available in the document sections of the respective NEWGOV projects. The title of the paper by project one researchers Gerda Falkner and Oliver Treib is: 'Explaining EU Policy Implementation Across Countries: Three Modes of Adaptation'. The title of the paper by Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse is 'One Size Fits All! EU Policies for the Promotion of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law'. The paper is available in the documents section of cluster 3. On the EUSA conference see below, news item dated 17 March 2005.visit project 1 page (for Falkner/Treib)
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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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Project 21: Towards New Corporate Governance Regimes in EuropeThis paper contributes to the research on corporate governance by predicting the effects of European takeover regulation. In particular, we investigate whether the recent reforms of takeover regulation in Europe are leading to a harmonization of the national legislations.visit project page
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14 April 2005, University of ExeterJohn Christensen will visit the Department of Politics of the University of Exeter to talk to a small number of academics who are research-active in international political economy, critical global studies, the role of NGOs and related topics (14 April 2005, 2-4 pm, Conference room 2, Xfi Building). Please book with Ulrike Kraemer, u.s.kraemer@ex.ac.uk, Tel. +44-1392- 26-4185.visit project page
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31 March - 2 April 2005, Austin, Texas (USA)Several NEWGOV researchers will attend the forthcoming International Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) in Austin, Texas.
Two papers will present first NEWGOV research results: Daniela Obradovic (University of Amsterdam) will present a paper on 'Participatory Democracy and the Open Access Policy for Interest Groups in the European Union', Charalampos Koutalakis (Free University of Berlin) will talk about 'Smoothing Eastern Enlargements through New Modes of Governance? Independent Regulatory Agencies and Non-hierarchical Steering in Environmental Policies'.
In addition, a number of NEWGOV researchers will present work linked to the NEWGOV project, for example Gerda Falkner and Olvier Treib (Institute for Advanced Studies), Brigid Laffan (University College Dublin), Tanja Börzel and Thomas Risse (Free University Berlin), Helen Wallace (EUI), Wolfgang Wessels and Udo Diedrich (University of Cologne), Sandra Lavenex (Unversity of Berne); Gráinne de Búrca (EUI), Susanne Schmidt (Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies), Nicolas Jabko (Sciences Po, Paris); and Loukas Tsoukalis (University of Athens).go to the list of clusters and projects
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The first two working papers have been released in the framework of the joint series EUROGOV (European Governance Papers), published by NEWGOV and the CONNEX Network (Connecting Excellence on European Governance):
- EUROGOV No. C-05-01 ‘European governance and system integration’ written by Beate Kohler-Koch
- EUROGOV No. C-05-02 ‘Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik’ written by Andreas Follesdal and Simon Hix.go to the EUROGOV Homepage |
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22 March 2005, BrusselsThe workshop is orgainsed within the framework of the project "New Approaches to Economic Governance in the EU (ECONPOL)". By invitation only.download programme
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Project 12: COPAThis paper seeks to conceptualize the role of new modes of governance in the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the EU. More specifically, it will tackle the question to what extent new modes of governance can facilitate the adoption of and adaptation to EU Law as major a prerequisite for membership.visit project page
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28 January 2005 , University of ExeterThe workshop discussed the following intellectual themes: classification of formal and informal governance; interaction between new and old governance; emergence of new governance; quality of new policy instruments; effectiveness of soft law and new governance in general; and type of social theory better suited to understand new governance. One of the main conclusions of the meeting is that the term ‘soft law’ has limited intellectual mileage, both for lawyers and political scientists.visit project page
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Project 14: 'Smoothing' Eastern Enlargement through New Modes of Governance?The aim of this paper is to explore theoretically-driven hypotheses from existing literature on new modes of governance and independent regulatory agencies and identify the main factors that explain variations across different policy areas and member states.visit project page
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Within the framework of the project ‘Governance and the EU Securities Sector’ a first report was published by Carl-Fredrik Bergström and Josefin Almer from the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies and Frédéric Varone and Christian de Visscher from the Université catholique de Louvain.visit project page
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