EU budgetary dynamics: incremental or punctuated equilibrium?

Citi, Manuele

doi:10.1080/13501763.2012.760333

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“…Baumgartner and Jones have pioneered this approach by studying how policy stability and change propagate through the different stages of the policy process, producing a considerable volume of evidence on the punctuated-equilibrium dynamic of policy reform (Baumgartner & Jones 1993Jones et al 2003;Jones & Baumgartner 2005). The same type of analysis has been conducted by various scholars affiliated with the policy agendas network, finding similar patterns of policy reform across different countries (Jones et al 2009), and even at the supranational level, as in the case of the EU (Citi 2013).…”

Section: Dependent Variable: Measuring Regulatory Policy Changementioning

confidence: 74%

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Measuring and explaining regulatory reform in the EU: A time‐series analysis of eight sectors, 1984–2012

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Justesen

2014

European J Political Res

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Over the last three decades, European Union regulation of the internal market has become highly pervasive, affecting practically all domains of European citizens' lives. Many studies have focused on understanding the process and causes of regulatory change, but with limited attempts to analyse the more general sources of regulatory reform. This article focuses on the determinants of stability and change in EU regulation.An original dataset of 169 pieces of legislation (regulations, directives and decisions) across eight different sectors is developed and the dynamics of regulatory reform in the EU are analysed. Using time-series analysis of count data, evidence is found that the number of winning coalitions in the Council and the size of EU membership have a significant impact on regulatory reform in the EU. By contrast, the ideological composition of the EU's legislative bodies is not systematically related to regulatory reform.

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Section: Dependent Variable: Measuring Regulatory Policy Changementioning

confidence: 74%

“…The same type of analysis has been conducted by various scholars affiliated with the policy agendas network, finding similar patterns of policy reform across different countries (Jones et al. ), and even at the supranational level, as in the case of the EU (Citi ).…”

Section: Dependent Variable: Measuring Regulatory Policy Changementioning

confidence: 77%

Measuring and explaining regulatory reform in the EU: A time‐series analysis of eight sectors, 1984–2012

Citi

Justesen

2014

European J Political Res

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“…In this context, the term 'bounded rationality' refers to the fact that policy-makers are not able to predict the consequences of complex policy changes while they have limited time to take actions. Therefore, the logic of bounded rationality also predicts incremental policy change (Lindblom 1959; see also Citi 2013).…”

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EU public procurement policy: the economic crisis as trigger for enhanced harmonisation

Pircher

2019

Journal of European Integration

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While previous research on the impact of the economic crisis on EU policy has primarily focused on the internal market and financial market regulations, the effect on public procurement has so far been neglected. This lack of attention is surprising. Public procurement accounts for approximately 14% of the EU GDP and involves over 250.000 contracting public authorities. Therefore, procurement is considered essential for lifting the EU out of the crisis by promoting competitiveness and growth. Nevertheless, public procurement reflects contradictory developments. Whereas the European Commission strives for greater harmonisation, member states often focus on national priorities. By comparing the old and new procurement regimes through the lenses of historic institutionalism, this article demonstrates that the EU managed to enhance harmonisation despite tendencies of increased national protectionism. The article finds that procurement became a much more prominent policy instrument for greater market integration subsequent to the economic crisis.

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“…There is less theoretical and empirical research on the EU budget, and this has mainly focused on distributional issues and conflicts: how the EU presidency affects the distribution of resources across member states (Aksoy, 2010), the formation of interest coalitions in the adoption of multiannual financial frameworks (MFFs) (Blavoukos and Pagoulatos, 2011) and the distribution of EU funds at sub-national level (Dellmuth and Stoffel, 2012). Other studies have analysed the general pattern of stability and change in budget reform (Citi, 2013) and the likely effects of the Lisbon Treaty on budgetary policymaking (Crombez and Høyland, 2015). However, much less is known about the determinants of budget change, i.e.…”

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European Union budget politics: Explaining stability and change in spending allocations

Citi

2015

European Union Politics

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The marginal involvement of the European Union (EU) in redistributive policies and its limited fiscal resources have led to a notable lack of attention by EU scholars towards the EU budget and its dynamics. Yet the nature of the budgetary data and their high usability for statistical analysis make them an excellent tool for studying and measuring policy change in the EU. In this article, I analyse an original dataset containing yearly data for the main categories of expenditure and how they have changed over the last three decades . Using time-series analysis, I find that the ability to form winning coalitions in the Council, the ideological positioning of the co-legislators and the inclusion of the cohesion countries have played a significant role in driving budget change.

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EU budgetary dynamics: incremental or punctuated equilibrium?

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Measuring and explaining regulatory reform in the EU: A time‐series analysis of eight sectors, 1984–2012

Measuring and explaining regulatory reform in the EU: A time‐series analysis of eight sectors, 1984–2012

EU public procurement policy: the economic crisis as trigger for enhanced harmonisation

European Union budget politics: Explaining stability and change in spending allocations

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