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Thushyanthan Baskaran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Supranational Integration and national reorganization on the maastricht treaty s impact on fiscal decentralization in eu countries
Constitutional Political Economy, 2010Co-Authors: Thushyanthan BaskaranAbstract:We explore the implications of European Integration for fiscal decentralization in EU member states with a dataset on 21 OECD countries over the 1975–2000 period. The difference-in-difference methodology is used to establish causality. EU member states are classified as the treatment and non-EU OECD countries as the control group. The Maastricht treaty is interpreted as a quasi-experimental policy intervention that substantially advanced European Integration. Our results suggest that tax decentralization has increased in EU countries after the signing of the Maastricht treaty. The treaty’s effect on expenditure decentralization also seems to be positive, but is less clear-cut.
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Supranational Integration and national reorganization: On the Maastricht treaty’s impact on fiscal decentralization in EU countries
Constitutional Political Economy, 2010Co-Authors: Thushyanthan BaskaranAbstract:We explore the implications of European Integration for fiscal decentralization in EU member states with a dataset on 21 OECD countries over the 1975–2000 period. The difference-in-difference methodology is used to establish causality. EU member states are classified as the treatment and non-EU OECD countries as the control group. The Maastricht treaty is interpreted as a quasi-experimental policy intervention that substantially advanced European Integration. Our results suggest that tax decentralization has increased in EU countries after the signing of the Maastricht treaty. The treaty’s effect on expenditure decentralization also seems to be positive, but is less clear-cut.
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Supranational Integration and national reorganization
MPRA Paper, 2009Co-Authors: Thushyanthan BaskaranAbstract:We explore the implications of European Integration for scal decentralization in EU member states with a dataset on 21 OECD countries over the 1975-2000 period. The dierence-in-dierence methodology is used to establish causality. EU member states are classied as the treatment and non-EU OECD countries as the control group. The Maastricht treaty is interpreted as a quasi-experimental policy intervention that substantially advanced European Integration. Our results suggest that tax decentralization has increased in EU countries after the signing of the Maastricht treaty. The treaty's eect on expenditure decentralization also seems to be positive, but is less clear-cut.
Berthold Rittberger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The European Union as a system of differentiated Integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation
Journal of European Public Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Frank Schimmelfennig, Dirk Leuffen, Berthold RittbergerAbstract:ABSTRACTThis contribution conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated Integration characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as the EU's powers, policy scope and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the contribution attributes the pattern of differentiated Integration in the EU to the interaction of interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal differentiation) results from Supranational Integration under conditions of high interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy Integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the intern...
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The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration: Interdependence, Politicization and Differentiation. IHS Political Science Series No. 137, 10 July 2014
2014Co-Authors: Frank Schimmelfennig, Dirk Leuffen, Berthold RittbergerAbstract:This paper conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated Integration characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as the EU’s powers, policy scope, and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the paper attributes the pattern of differentiated Integration in the EU to the interaction of interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal differentiation) results from Supranational Integration under conditions of high interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy Integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the internal market, monetary union, and defence.
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no Integration without representation european Integration parliamentary democracy and two forgotten communities
Journal of European Public Policy, 2006Co-Authors: Berthold RittbergerAbstract:ABSTRACT This article demonstrates that constitutionalization has been high on the agenda of political elites since the early days of European Integration in the 1950s. The inclusion of representative institutions – parliaments with budgetary, legislative and control powers – was central in the negotiations of the two ‘forgotten’ Communities: the European Defence Community (EDC) and the European Political Community (EPC). It is argued that it was not federalist ideology which prompted policy-makers at the time to allot a prominent place to a European Parliament in the institutional structures of those Communities; it was the intended transfer of sovereignty to the Supranational level which prompted a ‘democratic spillover’ process whereby political elites came to reflect on the direct repercussion of Supranational Integration for domestic parliamentary competences. Overlooked by federalists, neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists alike, this democratic ‘self-healing’ mechanism of European Integration...
Mira Burri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rezension zu: Irini Katsirea, Public Broadcasting and European Law
2020Co-Authors: Mira BurriAbstract:Public broadcasting has always been a regulatory field somewhat zealously guarded within the nation states' sphere and kept willingly untouched by regional or international rules. Values inherent to the role of public broadcasting, such as cultural and national identity, social cohesion, pluralism and a sustained public sphere, were thought too critical and too historically connected with the particular society to allow any "outside" influence. Different regulatory models have emerged to reflect these specificities within the national boundaries of European countries. Yet, as media evolved technologically and economically, the constraints of state borders were rendered obsolete and the inner tension between culture and commerce of the television medium became more pronounced. This tension was only intensified with the formulation of a European Community (EC) layer of regulation, which had as its primary objective the creation of a single market for audiovisual services (or as the EC Directive beautifully put it, a "Television without Frontiers"), while also including some provisions catering for cultural concerns, such as the infamous quota system for European and independent productions. Against this backdrop, public broadcasting makes a particularly intriguing subject for a study of regulatory dilemmas of national versus Supranational, Integration versus intergovernmentalism, culture versus commerce, intervention versus liberalisation, and all this in the dynamic setting of contemporary media. The present paper reviews Irini Katsirea's book PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND EUROPEAN LAW and seeks to identify whether all elements of the complex governance puzzle of European public service broadcasting rules are analytically well fitted together.
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Book Review: Public Broadcasting and European Law
2008Co-Authors: Mira BurriAbstract:Public broadcasting has always been a regulatory field somewhat zealously guarded within the nation states' sphere and kept willingly untouched by regional or international rules. Values inherent to the role of public broadcasting, such as cultural and national identity, social cohesion, pluralism and a sustained public sphere, were thought too critical and too historically connected with the particular society to allow any "outside" influence. Different regulatory models have emerged to reflect these specificities within the national boundaries of European countries. Yet, as media evolved technologically and economically, the constraints of state borders were rendered obsolete and the inner tension between culture and commerce of the television medium became more pronounced. This tension was only intensified with the formulation of a European Community (EC) layer of regulation, which had as its primary objective the creation of a single market for audiovisual services (or as the EC Directive beautifully put it, a "Television without Frontiers"), while also including some provisions catering for cultural concerns, such as the infamous quota system for European and independent productions. Against this backdrop, public broadcasting makes a particularly intriguing subject for a study of regulatory dilemmas of national versus Supranational, Integration versus intergovernmentalism, culture versus commerce, intervention versus liberalisation, and all this in the dynamic setting of contemporary media. The present paper reviews Irini Katsirea's book PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND EUROPEAN LAW and seeks to identify whether all elements of the complex governance puzzle of European public service broadcasting rules are analytically well fitted together.
Frank Schimmelfennig - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ever Looser Union? - Theory: The Choice for Differentiated Europe
Ever Looser Union?, 2020Co-Authors: Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas WinzenAbstract:This chapter theorizes differentiated Integration based on the major schools of thought in the study of European Integration: liberal intergovernmentalism, neofunctionalism, and postfunctionalism. The chapter distinguishes differentiation from uniform Integration and non-Integration. It explains demand for differentiation on the basis of cross-national heterogeneity in member state preferences and capacities. It then explores the effects of externalities, decision rules, Supranational actors, and Integration norms on the supply of differentiated Integration. Finally, the chapter distinguishes two logics of differentiation. Constitutional differentiation arises in the context of EU treaty reforms and is driven by resistance to the Supranational Integration of core state powers among the Union’s Eurosceptic and wealthy member states. Instrumental differentiation is predominantly a feature of enlargement negotiations and results from distributional conflicts and differences in governance capacity and wealth between existing and prospective member states.
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The European Union as a system of differentiated Integration: interdependence, politicization and differentiation
Journal of European Public Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Frank Schimmelfennig, Dirk Leuffen, Berthold RittbergerAbstract:ABSTRACTThis contribution conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated Integration characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as the EU's powers, policy scope and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the contribution attributes the pattern of differentiated Integration in the EU to the interaction of interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal differentiation) results from Supranational Integration under conditions of high interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy Integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the intern...
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The European Union as a System of Differentiated Integration: Interdependence, Politicization and Differentiation. IHS Political Science Series No. 137, 10 July 2014
2014Co-Authors: Frank Schimmelfennig, Dirk Leuffen, Berthold RittbergerAbstract:This paper conceptualizes the European Union (EU) as a system of differentiated Integration characterized by both variation in levels of centralization (vertical differentiation) and variation in territorial extension (horizontal differentiation) across policy areas. Differentiation has been a concomitant of deepening and widening and has increased and consolidated as the EU’s powers, policy scope, and membership have grown. Turning to explanation, the paper attributes the pattern of differentiated Integration in the EU to the interaction of interdependence and politicization. Differentiation among the member states (internal differentiation) results from Supranational Integration under conditions of high interdependence and politicization. By contrast, external differentiation (the selective policy Integration of non-member states) occurs in highly interdependent but weakly politicized policy areas. These constellations are illustrated in case studies of differentiation in the internal market, monetary union, and defence.
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Demoi-cracy in the European Union: principles, institutions, policies
Journal of European Public Policy, 2014Co-Authors: Francis Cheneval, Sandra Lavenex, Frank SchimmelfennigAbstract:ABSTRACTIn a ‘demoi-cracy’, separate statespeoples enter into a political arrangement and jointly exercise political authority. Its proper domain is a polity of democratic states with hierarchical, majoritarian features of policy-making, especially in value-laden redistributive and coercive policy areas, but without a unified political community (demos). In its vertical dimension, demoi-cracy is based on the equality and interaction of citizens' and statespeoples' representatives in the making of common policies. Horizontally, it seeks to balance equal transnational rights of citizens with national policy-making autonomy. The EU belongs to the domain of demoi-cracy and has established many of its features. We argue that both vertical and horizontal demoi-cratization have been triggered by processes of Supranational Integration in the European Union (EU). They differ, however, in the origins and the outcomes. Vertical demoi-cratization has initially been a reaction of parliamentary institutional actors to ...
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European Integration in the Euro Crisis: The Limits of Postfunctionalism
Journal of European Integration, 2014Co-Authors: Frank SchimmelfennigAbstract:The Euro crisis presents a puzzle to the post-functionalist approach to European Integration. In spite of unprecedented social hardships, politicization, loss of popular support and political turmoil in the Eurozone, the Euro crisis has produced major new steps of technocratic Supranational Integration. This article shows that Integration during the euro crisis can be sufficiently explained by a neofunctionalist account based on path dependency, endogenous preference change and functional spill over. Finally, it explores three mechanisms that have helped to shield EU-level reform from a constraining dissensus: euro-compatible government formation, avoidance of referendums and delegation to technocratic Supranational organizations.
Sergio Dellavalle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Top-down” vs. “Bottom-up”: A Dichotomy of Paradigms for the Legitimation of Public Power in the EU
Perspectives on Federalism, 2017Co-Authors: Sergio DellavalleAbstract:Abstract Public power has been justified by resorting to two different kinds of legitimation: one coming from above, the other emerging from the governed. While legitimation “from above” implies that those who are vested with executive power are qualified in their function because of their allegedly higher competences, “bottom-up” legitimacy always presupposes that only citizens can properly decide on their destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, attention is focused on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power in the European Union. Indeed, both strands of legitimation of public power are represented here with original proposals, according to the specificity of the Supranational condition. But even more interesting is that the research into the characteristics of Supranational Integration has been one of the most significant fields in which the legitimation “from above” has reappeared in Western thought after a rather long period of marginality, now taking the shape of a technocratic justification. In the main section of the article, the reasons in favour of a democratic “bottom-up” legitimation of the European public power are analyzed first, then those which recur to the so-called “output legitimacy” – in other words to technocratic arguments. The last section of the contribution is dedicated to an overall assessment of the different positions.
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“Top-down” vs. “Bottom-up”: A Dichotomy of Paradigms for the Legitimation of Public Power in the EU
Perspectives on Federalism, 2017Co-Authors: Sergio DellavalleAbstract:Public power has been justified by resorting to two different kinds of legitimation: one coming from above, the other emerging from the governed. While legitimation "from above" implies that those who are vested with executive power are qualified in their function because of their allegedly higher competences, "bottom-up" legitimacy always presupposes that only citizens can properly decide on their destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, attention is focused on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power in the European Union. Indeed, both strands of legitimation of public power are represented here with original proposals, according to the specificity of the Supranational condition. But even more interesting is that the research into the characteristics of Supranational Integration has been one of the most significant fields in which the legitimation "from above" has reappeared in Western thought after a rather long period of marginality, now taking the shape of a technocratic justification. In the main section of the article, the reasons in favour of a democratic "bottom-up" legitimation of the European public power are analyzed first, then those which recur to the so-called "output legitimacy" - in other words to technocratic arguments. The last section of the contribution is dedicated to an overall assessment of the different positions. © 2017 Sergio Dellavalle, published by De Gruyter Open 2017.