Competing frames in the European Commission - the case of the defence industry and equipment issue

Mörth, Ulrika

doi:10.1080/135017600343151

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“…Arguably, therefore, her observations might be quite compatible with studies showing that the organisational setting is important as regards explaining more 'operationalised' preferences in actual decision situations. For example, several studies have portrayed decision-making at the Commission very much as politics between various DGs (Coombes 1970: 203;Cram 1994;Cini 2000;Hooghe 2000;Mo¨rth 2000). Had the Commission been structured according to geography so that each member state had been served by a particular DG, and if these DGs had in addition been staffed by people from their respective 'client countries', we would expect the various national interests to be at the forefront of Commission decision-making.…”

Section: Executive Centre Formation At the European Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order

Curtin¹,

Egeberg²

2008

West European Politics

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Section: Executive Centre Formation At the European Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order

Curtin¹,

Egeberg²

2008

West European Politics

152

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“…They follow different logics of legislative action, represent diverging outside interests and stakeholders, and vary in their involvement in the production of European legislation -thereby allowing for a multitude of competing frames (Schön and Rein, 1994; for the Commission: Mörth, 2000;cf. also Princen, 2009: 362).…”

Section: A Multitude Of Internal Commission Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, it can largely determine the frame and focus of a legislative objective (cf. Mörth, 2000). The institutional rules allow the lead department to influence the aggregation of positions by channelling the informal and formal involvement of other DGs.…”

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“…Second, EU agenda-setting literature stresses the multiple venues the Commission's internal fragmentation provides for political actors to upload their preferred choices to the EU agenda (e.g. Harcourt, 1998;Mörth, 2000;Princen and Rhinard, 2006). This research is primarily interested in explaining individual positions and the strategic use that can be made of structure.…”

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The Agenda Set by the EU Commission: The Result of Balanced or Biased Aggregation of Positions?

Hartlapp

Metz²,

Rauh

2010

SSRN Journal

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Substantial theoretical and conceptual advances have been made with respect to agendasetting as a determinant for policy outcomes. An actor-centred perspective on frames and venues is core to this literature, structure as a single standing category has received less attention. In this paper we argue that these results should be combined with bureaucratic politics in the European Commission to further our understanding of agenda setting processes in the European Union.Typically, a legislative proposal of the Commission is produced by a lead department which collaborates with a number of other departments on a partly formalized basis before a joint Commission decision is taken. Different services hold different positions on specific policies. We show that structures and rules governing the process yield the potential for some positions to be systematically more strongly represented in the proposals entering interinstitutional decision-making. We complement our argument by providing evidence of interaction patterns when it comes to internal coordination.

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“…Studies of issue portrayal have often found that an economic frame is prioritised in the EU context. Pursuing such an 'economization strategy' (Guigner, 2004) has appeared successful for issues originating in various policy domains, such as culture (Littoz-Monnet, 2012), health (Guigner, 2004), defence (Mörth, 2000), urban policy (Atkinson, 2001), biotechnology (Rhinard, 2010;Daviter, 2011), and gender equality (Black, 2009), to name a few. Because of this broad applicability of the economic frame, it is logical to infer that an economic issue character could have an influential role in EU policy making more generally.…”

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Explaining political attention allocation with the help of issue character: evidence from the European Council

Alexandrova

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Policy issues compete for the attention of political actors, and the size of the agenda an issue can occupy is largely determined by the way in which it is defined. This logic constitutes a simple agenda-setting model in which factors related to the participants in the policy process and their context influence the attention a single issue receives after being problematised. In order to be able to apply this model to the construction of a whole agenda, we need to add an intermediate step. This study proposes to do so by incorporating the notion of issue character and offers an empirical application of the adapted model to the European Council, a crucial informal player in European Union (EU) agenda setting. Using a dimensionality reduction technique, the composition of the agenda is broken down to two constitutive dimensions -core vs. non-core themes of government and economic vs. noneconomic character. Since the first structuring element is in line with existing knowledge and the role expectations for the European Council, the analysis concentrates on the second type. Changing saliency levels of the economic issue character of the agenda are used as a dependent variable in a model, including predictors related to the nature of the institution and contextual factors. The results show that leftist European Council party ideology and growing government deficit in the EU contribute to the increasing prominence of the economic dimension, which in turn explains rising levels in attention to various issues, especially of the non-core themes type.

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Competing frames in the European Commission - the case of the defence industry and equipment issue

Cited by 115 publications

References 8 publications

Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order

Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order

The Agenda Set by the EU Commission: The Result of Balanced or Biased Aggregation of Positions?

Explaining political attention allocation with the help of issue character: evidence from the European Council

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