European Citizenship Rights and European Fiscal Politics After the Crisis

Greer, Scott L.; Jarman, Holly

doi:10.1017/gov.2016.2

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“…In both cases, the member state governments "failed forward," choosing further integration and more federalism in regulation and finance but doing so at the least common denominator they could find (Jones, Kelemen, and Meunier 2015). Thus, for example, the response to the eurozone debt crisis focused on keeping monetary systems operating, while creating a massive surveillance system that has been predictably ineffective (Greer and Brooks 2021;Kelemen and Teo 2014;Greer and Jarman 2018). The response to COVID-19 was both a large expansion of existing EU health and civil protection programs (especially the latter, which have more of the characteristics of an insurance scheme) and a potentially precedent-setting mutualization of debt (Brooks, de Ruijter, and Greer 2021;.…”

Section: Implications: the European Union And Its Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

Putting Federalism in Its Place

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Lecours³

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supported the project that led to this and the earlier volume, Federalism and Social Policy. Theresa Ramirez and Connie Rockman supported that project with the generosity and competence they always show. Comments from Alan Trench, Janet Laible, and Margitta Mätzke on the initial development of this project were very helpful. Finally, the University of Michigan Press, especially Elizabeth Demers, Kevin Rennells, and Haley Winkle, were the combination of supportive, engaged, tough, and patient that authors always appreciate. CHAPTER 1Why Should We Care about Federalism?In Texarkana there is an unusual building. As its name suggests, the town straddles the border between the U.S. states of Texas and Arkansas. The building stands along the border, half on each side. It is a U.S. federal government building, finished in 1933, that combines post offices and courts. The federal courts serving Texas are on the Texas side, and the federal courts serving Arkansas are on the Arkansas side. A post office, equally divided between the two states, serves both. The street splits to go around the building, with different pavement quality and parking rules on the two sides.That one building in a little-known railroad town is a metaphor for federalism. The states constitute the environment, but the federation constitutes the states. It is a legacy of specific political moments and policy decisions that there is a shared post office, serving the American people, in a unifying federal building that reinforces juridical divides between states in its very design. Perhaps it is telling that it is said (by the town's tourism bureau) to be the second most photographed federal building in the United States. It is of no significant architectural interest-except insofar as its location and its twinned courthouses inscribe federal politics in its stones. Letters mailed there since 1933 have been postmarked with a stamp that marks them as having been mailed in both states: "Texarkana-AR-TX" or "Texarkana, USA."The concrete complexity of a federal building in the American Cotton Belt belies much of what is written about federalism. Much research about the impact of federalism, or any other political or social institution, treats it as a binary variable, present or absent, and then look for its effects. Endless effort has been expended and endless ink spilled in scholarly and popular 1. More specifically, this book focuses primarily on federal countries located in Australasia, North America, and Western Europe, which does not mean the lessons it draws are not applicable to federal countries located outside the Global North, such as Argentina,

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Section: Implications: the European Union And Its Futurementioning

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Putting Federalism in Its Place

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“…As Elmer E. Schattschneider (1960) wrote, the scope of conflict is crucial in determining who wins and who loses in politics; adding new players makes politics harder to control. It is for this reason that European fiscal governance architectures are initially created with a small central administrative focus and a narrow scope of conflict, deliberately trying to avoid political participation that might endanger the austerity agenda (Greer and Jarman 2016). Those who are excluded from a given architecture thus have incentive to expand its scope and, thereby, change their odds of winning.…”

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Termites of Solidarity in the House of Austerity: Undermining Fiscal Governance in the European Union

Greer

Brooks

2020

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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European Union (EU) fiscal governance, especially the European Semester, is an ambitious new governance architecture involving surveillance and discipline, across both Eurozone and non-Eurozone member state policies, in pursuit of fiscal rigor. It is the most recent of several attempts to expand EU powers over member state policy with the goal of austere budgeting, and one that has led to remarkable claims of authority by the European Union over member state health policies as detailed as medical school admissions and the role of primary care. It is expected that it would be resisted not just by those who object to an EU role in the organization and delivery of health care but also by those who object to a particular austere approach to health policy. How well is it working? Using two waves of interviews and documentary analysis, and health as a policy case study, the authors document three key techniques that opponents use to undermine the semester's governance architecture: broadening goals, expanding the scope of conflict, and disputing and nuancing indicators. The result is that opponents of a narrow fiscal governance agenda are again successfully undermining the narrow focus of the semester.

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“…Whilst under the EDP, France had a CSR urging it to fundamentally restructure its health workforce policy by abolishing its long-standing annual limit on the recruitment of medical students (European Council, 2015). France exited the EDP relatively quickly, and thus escaped having to comply with the requirement, but the case illustrated the potential for unprecedented EU influence over a national health system, borne from the hardening of a framework goal (Greer & Jarman, 2018).…”

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