Civil Aviation and European Integration: Creating the Seemingly Impossible SEAM

Dobson, Alan P.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02087.x

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“…Market participants seem to understand that a renegotiation of the underlying treaty provisions is not very likely and that thus a successful alliance of the Commission and the ECJ heralds regime change in hitherto nationally regulated sectors. Our quantitative case study on these contemporaneous market reactions is thus also consistent with extant in‐depth policy analyses that reconstruct the influence of the Commission–ECJ alliance along archival or interview‐based research (Dobson, ; Kassim and Stevens, , p. 169; Woll, ). More broadly, the repeatedly uncovered relevance of judicial proceedings aligns with calls for more research into the political preferences that drive decision‐making in the ECJ.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Company‐specific uncertainties during the final stages of regime change – for example, on British Airways' exclusive access to Heathrow, the looming merger between Air France and KLM, or Lufthansa's search for possible acquisitions – may explain this result. This reminds us that interpreting the distributive effects across airlines has to be taken with caution as the competitive environment of individual companies and thus their preference for Commission success varied over time (Dobson, ; Kassim and Stevens, ). However, independent from the actual direction of return effects, the analysis of cumulative portfolio returns once more underlines that the economically most relevant political signals came from the judicial strategies that enabled the Commission to overcome Member State resistance in co‐operation with the ECJ.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While KLM followed closely with about 40 per cent, the extra‐European share of the remaining European carriers was below 25 per cent. While one can thus broadly distinguish large and small European airlines, existing in‐depth accounts of air transport regulation highlight that the competitive situation varied strongly over individual companies and also over time (see Dobson, ; Kassim and Stevens, ). We thus refrain from over‐interpreting the directions of specific event effects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Political scientists have frequently focused on air transport to study the patterns and conditions by which the European Commission asserts its regulatory ambitions against national resistance (for example, Delreux, ; Dobson, ; Kassim and Stevens, ; Woll, ; O'Reilly and Stone‐Sweet, ). We complement this literature by scrutinizing how financial markets perceive political struggles over supranational liberalization in Europe.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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There is No such Thing as a Free Open Sky: Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air Transport

Rauh

Schneider

2013

J of Common Market Studies

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Aviation is a prime example of a policy area where the clash over supranational regulatory responsibilities had pronounced economic repercussions. In this article, we examine the economic effects of the European Commission's struggle to obtain competences in international air transport. Stock market reactions to key events in the political conflict between 1995 and 2004 unravel whether investor beliefs about the distribution of power in the EU follow the basic conjectures of neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism or institutionalism. The event studies show that particularly judicial proceedings and the involvement of the ECJ send credible integration signals to financial markets. This supports the hypothesis that investors consider the subtleties of the EU's decision-making apparatus carefully and only react to developments that definitively alter the political regime and thus also the market situation. These findings are in line with an institutionalist interpretation of a reform that has radically changed the international aviation regime.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Rauh

Schneider

2013

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“…Civil aviation in Europe has been transformed by the creation of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM), consolidated by the mid-1990s through a series of 'market-opening' reforms (Dobson, 2010). Whereas competition was previously restricted to 'legacy' (national flag) airlines, with routes between airport pairs populated by the respective national airlines under bilateral air service agreements (BASAs) negotiated by sovereign states, there is now an 'open market' system that has paved the way for LFAs to dominate the intra-European market (Author A and Author B, 2014).…”

Section: 'It's Capitalism Stupid' -Contradictions Of the Aviation Sumentioning

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Speaking of Contradiction

Harvey

Turnbull

Wintersberger

2018

Work, Employment and Society

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Whereas McGovern calls for a moratorium on the ever increasing (ab)use of the word ‘contradiction’, principally because scholars of work and employment fail to connect different levels of analysis and/or demonstrate how and why contradiction(s) lead to widespread instability and upheaval, it can be demonstrated how both can be achieved through the ‘system, society, dominance’ framework. In what follows, the empirical focus is on the safety-critical work of airport ground service providers (GSPs), where key elements of the employment relationship embody contradictions that can be traced to the (sub-)system (mode of production) of a Single European Aviation Market (SEAM) that is now dominated by low fares airlines (LFAs). Instead of a moratorium, scholars of work and employment need to reconnect with society and theoretically ground their analysis in a (capitalist) system beset with contradictions between the forces and relations of production.

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The European Court of Justice and the Policy Process

Schmidt

2018

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The European Court of Justice is one of the most important actors in the process of European integration. Political science still struggles to understand its significance, with recent scholarship emphasizing how closely rulings reflect member states’ preferences. In this book, I argue that the implications of the supremacy and direct effect of the EU law have still been overlooked. As it constitutionalizes an intergovernmental treaty, the European Union has a detailed set of policies inscribed into its constitution that are extensively shaped by the Court’s case law. If rulings have constitutional status, their impact is considerable, even if the Court only occasionally diverts from member states’ preferences. By focusing on the four freedoms of goods, services, persons, and capital, as well as citizenship rights, the book analyses how the Court’s development of case law has ascribed a broad meaning to these freedoms. The constitutional status of this case law constrains policymaking at the European and member-state levels. Different case studies show how major pieces of EU legislation cannot move beyond case law but have to codify its principles. Judicialization is important in the EU. It also directly constrains member-state policies. Court rulings oriented towards individual disputes are difficult to translate into general policies, and into administrative practices. Policy options are thereby withdrawn from majoritarian decision-making. As the Court cannot be overruled, short of a Treaty change, its case law casts a long shadow over policymaking in the European Union and its member states, undermining the legitimacy of this political order.

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Civil Aviation and European Integration: Creating the Seemingly Impossible SEAM

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

There is No such Thing as a Free Open Sky: Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air Transport

There is No such Thing as a Free Open Sky: Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air Transport

Speaking of Contradiction

The European Court of Justice and the Policy Process

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