Disentangling Double<i>Politikverflechtung</i>? The Implications of the Federal Reforms for Bund–Länder Relations on Europe

Rowe, Carolyn; Eppler, Annegret

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“…Héritier indeed indicates that ‘given a choice between different levels/arenas of decision-making, an actor, by opting out of one arena and shifting the decision to another, may improve his prospects of obtaining an institutional change according to his preferences’ (2007: 30). While institutional change was hoped for directly at the EU level, it was better accomplished by a number of regional governments at the national level (Jeffery, 2007a; Moore and Eppler, 2008; Tatham, 2011). 16…”

Section: Sources Of Endogenous Pressure For Changementioning

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Limited institutional change in an international organization: the EU's shift away from ‘federal blindness’

Tatham

2012

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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The European Union (EU) has been through many institutional transformations since the start of the integration project in the 1950s. While much of the literature has focussed on the more dramatic changes, less attention has been paid to instances of more limited institutional change. This article maps out and then accounts for the limitedness of the EU's departure from its original 'federal blindness' vis-à -vis regional actors. Theories of institutional change would lead one to expect that, as integration and regionalization heightened, endogenous pressures for change would trigger greater reform than that observed. Using a novel formula to estimate the EU's aggregate regionalization levels over time, the article demonstrates that it peaked between 1986 and 2003 but has since dropped to a level below that of the 1950s. Such a finding not only corrects a widespread assumption about regionalization levels in the European polity, but also provides an explanation for the pace and scope of the observed change as well as predictions about its future sources.

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Section: Sources Of Endogenous Pressure For Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Limited institutional change in an international organization: the EU's shift away from ‘federal blindness’

Tatham

2012

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Strictly speaking, regions can be conceived as domestic non-state actors that have some leverage in the national institutional and political set-up through a battery of formal and informal means. These range from the more institutionalized and constraining, such as in the case of the German Länder and the so-called Politikverflechtung (Scharpf, 1988, 2006; Moore and Eppler, 2008), to the more diffuse and informal, such as in unitary and centralized states (Le Galès and Lequesne, 1998; Négrier and Jouve, 1998). In twenty-first century Europe, most regions generally ‘stand to gain and lose a great deal per capita ’ (Moravcsik, 1993: 483) as the functions and competences devolved to them increasingly overlap with those delegated to the EU (Jeffery, 1997a; Bourne, 2003, 2004; Fleurke and Willemse, 2006; Tatham, 2007b).…”

Section: Overlooked and Misunderstood: The Impact Of Devolution On Rementioning

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Devolution and EU policy-shaping: bridging the gap between multi-level governance and liberal intergovernmentalism

Tatham

2011

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This paper argues that the impact of devolution has been largely misperceived in both liberal intergovernmentalist (LI) and multi-level governance (MLG) accounts of European Union (EU) politics. To address the shortcomings of both LI and MLG, a new data set measuring institutionalized regional involvement in the domestic EU policy-shaping process in the EU-27 is presented. Analysis shows that the relationship between devolution and institutionalized regional involvement is overall positive but non-linear, with a strong threshold effect that is best captured by a quadratic function. The causal nature of the link between devolution and institutionalized regional involvement is ascertained through qualitative means using process tracing and Mill’s method of difference. The article concludes with the necessary updating of MLG and LI frameworks to account for the impact of devolution on EU policy-shaping.

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“…This paper draws upon the policy networks model to interrogate the role of communities in the governance network in relation to autonomy, funding and other actors, and asks the question, what role do community actors play in regeneration? In so doing, this paper contributes to the policy networks and governance literature, particularly the tradition of politikverflechtung in German politics (Katzenstein, 1987;Scharpf, 1988Scharpf, , 2006Moore and Eppler, 2008;Van Waarden, 1992) as well as to the regeneration policy literature (Schridde, 2001) and more broadly to the institutional literature on federalism (Jeffery, 1994;Schmidt, 2003) and to German environmental politics (Bluhdorn et al, 1995;Lees, 2000;Weale, 1992;Wimmer and Wahl, 1995).…”

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Community management of regeneration projects in Potsdam, Germany

Shand

2014

International Journal of Law and Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the governance of regeneration projects, as part of the pan-German Social City initiative, examine the key actors engaged in delivery of renewal, and set out findings, before mapping the actors and governance models in regeneration in the area. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws upon the paradigm of governance to illustrate actors in regeneration, about which little has been written thus far. The paper draws upon interviews with these actors in Potsdam and uses the policy networks approach to examine where power, resources and function are allocated among the actors in renewal. Findings – Though the community actor is an important conduit between the private sector and tiers of governance, in Potsdam the funding focus comes from private individuals and business, there is less scope for the community to act as manager of projects in renewal. Originality/value – The role of community managers can be compared to other subnational, national or global regeneration programmes. In examining the strengths and weaknesses of this model, the findings are of value in comparable cases as well as to policy makers and practitioners. The role of communities in working with business and government can be replicated and learnt from in other cases.

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Disentangling DoublePolitikverflechtung? The Implications of the Federal Reforms for Bund–Länder Relations on Europe

Cited by 11 publications

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Limited institutional change in an international organization: the EU's shift away from ‘federal blindness’

Limited institutional change in an international organization: the EU's shift away from ‘federal blindness’

Devolution and EU policy-shaping: bridging the gap between multi-level governance and liberal intergovernmentalism

Community management of regeneration projects in Potsdam, Germany

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