From policy entrepreneur to policy manager: the challenge facing the European Commission

Laffan, Brigid

doi:10.1080/13501769780000081

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“…Recent research on EU policy formation has applied the concept of policy entrepreneurship to the European Commission (Laffan, 1997;Moravcsik, 1999). …”

Section: A Framework For Comparing Euroregionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Entrepreneurship and Multilevel Governance: A Comparative Study of European Cross-Border Regions

Perkmann

2007

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Introduction Virtually all European borders areas are involved in some type of cross-border region (CBR). Today, there are more than seventy such arrangements in Europe, usually operating under names such as`Euroregions' or`Working Communities'. Although CBRs have a long tradition in postwar Western Europe (O'Dowd, 2003), the 1990s saw a large increase in their numbers all over Europe. Among the various models, Euroregions have certainly received most recent attention in policy practice, mostly because they fit the organisational and spatial requirements of the EU support programme for CBRs. As opposed to the larger, multiregional Working Communities that often spread over several countries, Euroregions are small-scale groupings of contiguous public authorities across one or more nation-state borders and can be referred to as`micro-CBRs' (Perkmann, 2003). Are Euroregions a new type of region, spanning national borders and creating cross-border territories? As such, they would insert themselves into the wider tendencies of`rescaling' and`reterritorialisation' theorised by various observers (Blatter, 2001; Brenner, 1999; Jessop, 2002). However, others have emphasised the patchy track record of European CBRsöin terms of institution-building as well as their actual impact on local cross-border environments (

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“…Recent research on EU policy formation has applied the concept of policy entrepreneurship to the European Commission (Laffan, 1997;Moravcsik, 1999). …”

Section: A Framework For Comparing Euroregionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Entrepreneurship and Multilevel Governance: A Comparative Study of European Cross-Border Regions

Perkmann

2007

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

184

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“…On the level of projection, especially when it comes to selecting communicative highlights, it seems that the EU uses the same 'formula' for communicating 'Sustainable Energy Europe' as it has done in the past when communicating gender equality issues, for example. Rather than highlighting a perhaps contentious policy shift driven by a moral or ethical ideology, it has instead used its 'policy entrepreneurship' (Laffan, 1997) and primed the focus on the economic benefits or the likely economic consequences from not taking its suggested path. Through this pragmatic approach, arguably a normative agenda has emerged and is beginning to be successfully projected.…”

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confidence: 99%

An emerging EU strategic narrative? Twitter communication during the EU’s sustainable energy week

Bain

Chaban

2017

Comp Eur Polit

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This paper approaches the subject of the global recognition of the term 'Normative Power Europe' in external energy governance by engaging with the concept of strategic narratives.The paper considers reactions to the European Union (EU) as a normative energy actor within a tripartite scheme of strategic narrative formation, projection and reception (Miskimmon et al, 2013;Roselle et al, 2014). The definition of a narrative suggests the presence of an actor, an action, a goal or intention, a scene and instrument. Those were identified for the emerging 'Sustainable Energy Europe' narrative and tested in one empirical case study: Twitter communications surrounding the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2013. In its method, our analysis is among the first to explore empirically the EU's social media communication efforts. Answering a call for richer methodologies, which view social media data not as 'quantitative data, rather qualitative data on a quantitative scale' (D'Orazio, 2013 np), our analysis uses an original methodology and codes the Twitter data using a nuanced qualitative framework.

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“…57 EU-level actors tend to thrive when they operate in between the defined lines. In grey areas, and unexplored territory, they can propose courses of action that do not immediately conflict with the predefined preferences of the membership.…”

Section: Eu-level Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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The Health-Security Nexus and the European Union: Toward a Research Agenda

Dijkstra¹,

Ruijter²

2017

Eur. j. risk regul.

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The European Union is increasingly moving toward an integrated policy approach, which also acknowledges linkages between public health and (external) security policy. This introduction to the Special Issue sets out a research agenda on the emerging health-security nexus. It analyses recent policy developments with respect to the public health and security, and discusses interactions along the health-security nexus in the context of the European Union. It suggests drivers behind the integrated approach and it critically examines the health-security nexus from the perspective of effectiveness and legitimacy.

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From policy entrepreneur to policy manager: the challenge facing the European Commission

Cited by 172 publications

References 9 publications

Policy Entrepreneurship and Multilevel Governance: A Comparative Study of European Cross-Border Regions

Policy Entrepreneurship and Multilevel Governance: A Comparative Study of European Cross-Border Regions

An emerging EU strategic narrative? Twitter communication during the EU’s sustainable energy week

The Health-Security Nexus and the European Union: Toward a Research Agenda

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