Brussels between Bern and Berlin: Comparative Federalism Meets the European Union

Börzel, Tanja A.; Hosli, Madeleine O.

doi:10.1111/1468-0491.00213

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“…Without such cooperative devices, regions and the central government would not be able to cope with over-complexity, conflicting operating logics and excessive transaction costs which result from ambiguous and incomplete constitutions. In addition, the dual and competitive nature of the Belgian polity contrasts with the cooperative nature of the European system of governance where competences are shared rather than divided (Hix 1998;Bo¨rzel and Risse 2000;Bo¨rzel and Hosli 2003;Bo¨rzel 2005).…”

Section: The Europeanisation Of Federal Institutional Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The European rescue of the federal state: How Europeanisation shapes the Belgian state

Beyers¹,

Bursens²

2006

West European Politics

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Section: The Europeanisation Of Federal Institutional Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The European rescue of the federal state: How Europeanisation shapes the Belgian state

Beyers¹,

Bursens²

2006

West European Politics

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“…A (possible) hierarchical intervention by (external) state actors is ascribed a privileged function, because it can induce and backup non-hierarchical modes of coordination constituting a shadow of (external) hierarchy. The modes of coordination are determined by an institutional structure, which can be hardly changed by the governance actors (Börzel 2010;Mayntz 2005).…”

Section: Issue and Central Questionmentioning

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Intellectual Property Rights and Rent Appropriation: Open Conflict regarding Royalties on RR Soy in Argentina

Rauchecker¹

2013

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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“…Although it soon turned out to be unrealistic to create a supranational federal state given the interests of member state governments to maintain their powers, federalism remained an important normative concept in political discussions and research (Bogdandy 1999;Nicolaïdis and Howse 2002). Recently, scholars have proposed using it as a descriptive concept as well, in order to carve out the features of the EU polity in comparison with existing federations, in particular with the U.S. and Switzerland (Börzel and Hosli 2003;Cappelletti, Seccombe, and Weiler 1986;Fabbrini 2005;McKay 2001;Menon and Schain 2006;Sbragia 1992;Trechsel 2005), but sometimes also -and not always convincinglywith other federal states (e.g. Heinemann-Grüder 2002).…”

Section: Normative Theories: Criteria For Competence Allocation Betwementioning

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The EU’s competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel system

Benz¹,

Zimmer²

2008

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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This Living Review deals with the division of competences between the EU and its member states in a multilevel political system. The article summarises research on the relations between the EU and the national and sub-national levels of the member states. It provides an overview on normative and theoretical concepts and empirical research. From the outset, European integration was about the transfer of powers from the national to the European level, which evolved as explicit bargaining among governments or as an incremental drift. This process was reframed with the competence issue entering the agenda of constitutional policy. It now concerns the shape of the European multilevel polity as a whole, in particular the way in which powers are allocated, delimited and linked between the different levels.The article is structured as follows: First of all, normative theories of a European federation are discussed. Section 2 deals with different concepts of federalism and presents approaches of the economic theory of federalism in the context of the European polity. The normative considerations conclude with a discussion of the subsidiarity principle and the constitutional allocation of competences in the European Treaties. Section 3 covers the empirical issue of how to explain the actual allocation of competences (scope and type) between levels. Integration theories are presented here only in so far as they explain the transfer of competence from the national to the European level or the limits of this centralistic dynamics.Normative and empirical theories indeed provide some general guidelines and conclusions on the allocation of competences in the EU, but they both contradict the assumption of a separation of competences. The article therefore concludes that politics and policy-making This review is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Austria License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/at/ 2 Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer in the EU have to be regarded as multilevel governance (Section 4). The main theoretical approaches and results from empirical research on European multilevel governance are presented before the article concludes with recommendations for further discussion and research in the field (Section 5). Following Fritz Scharpf, it is recommended that research on the vertical allocation of competences and the application of shared competences in the European multilevel governance should stop searching for holistic approaches (grand theory) explaining unique features of the European political system; instead, research will best succeed when relying on a variety of simpler theories and models to describe European governance modes.Living Reviews in European Governance http://www.livingreviews.org /lreg-2008-3 How to cite this article Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we recommend to cite the article as follows:Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer, "The EU's competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel sy...

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Brussels between Bern and Berlin: Comparative Federalism Meets the European Union

Cited by 69 publications

References 34 publications

The European rescue of the federal state: How Europeanisation shapes the Belgian state

The European rescue of the federal state: How Europeanisation shapes the Belgian state

Intellectual Property Rights and Rent Appropriation: Open Conflict regarding Royalties on RR Soy in Argentina

The EU’s competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel system

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