Institutional stability and change: two sides of the same coin¹

Lindner, Johannes

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“…Moreover, a special edition of this journal in December 2003 set the development of the current EU budgetary system as one of the key explananda for theories of institutional change in the EU (Stacey and Rittberger 2003;Lindner 2003).…”

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Historical-institutionalist perspectives on the development of the EU budget system

Ackrill¹,

Kay²

2006

Journal of European Public Policy

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The EU budget has only recently started to feature in theories of European integration.Studies typically adopt a historical-institutionalist framework, exploring notions such as path dependency. They have, however, generally been rather aggregated, or coarsegrained, in their approach. The EU budget has thus been treated as a single entity rather than a series of inter-linked institutions. This paper seeks to address these lacunae by adopting a fine-grained approach. This enables us to emphasise the connections that exist between EU budgetary institutions, in both time and space. We show that the initial set of budgetary institutions was unable, over time, to achieve consistently their Treaty-based objectives. In response, rather than reform these institutions at potentially high political cost, additional institutions were layered on top of the extant structures. We thus demonstrate how some EU budgetary institutions have remained unchanged, whilst others have been added or changed over time.

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Historical-institutionalist perspectives on the development of the EU budget system

Ackrill¹,

Kay²

2006

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The reproductive mechanisms analysed for the thesis are gathered variously from rational choice institutionalism, historical institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism and can be classified roughly into three categories: utilitarian-functionalist, power-distributional and cultural-sociological (Table 1). Arthur (1988Arthur ( , 1994, Clemens and Cook (1999), Lindner (2003), North (1990), Pierson (2000aPierson ( , 2000b, Thelen (2006) The findings presented in this article are those from the third category, largely from changes in behavioural and discursive shifts at the elite level. Sociological institutionalism provides most of the literature on the roles of discourse and behaviour in institutional change, proposing that institutions are composites of behavioural 'scripts' that influence society (Clemens and Cook, 1999: 445).…”

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“…6 This hybrid framework treats CNP as an institution to test hypotheses concerning institutional reproduction and change. As Lindner (2003) points out, institutional stability and change are 'two sides of the same coin', as change arises when the mechanisms that ensure stabilityso-called reproductive mechanisms -break down. The reproductive mechanisms analysed for the thesis are gathered variously from rational choice institutionalism, historical institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism and can be classified roughly into three categories: utilitarian-functionalist, power-distributional and cultural-sociological (Table 1).…”

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Discourse Analysis: Studying Changing Discourse in British Parliamentary Debates

Williams¹

2014

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This article analyses policy change in German and British nationality policy between 2000 and 2010. It presents some initial findings from doctoral research, focusing mainly on the elite discursive shifts that have accompanied the changes. The decade in question has seen dramatic changes as both countries have renegotiated their identities. While Germany has shifted from an ethno-cultural discourse to a paradigm of what one might call constitutional patriotism and conscious effort to increase naturalisation rates, the UK has become more restrictive, and discourse is aimed at lowering the number of new British citizens. A comparison of the trends in both countries concludes that, though some of the changes are similar, the evidence does not point towards policy convergence but rather toward a crossing of paths.

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“…First, the path dependency approach argues that early, rather stochastic events in a sequence have significant influence on the trajectory due to reinforcing mechanisms, whereas later events are inertial (Hall 1993, Mahoney 2000, Hacker 2004. Here, radical change in the instrumental logic appears at critical junctures or during windows of opportunity (Kingdon 1995, Thelen 1999, Lindner 2003. While following a consistent policy path, symbolic innovations create a picture of activity but in fact support the status quo.…”

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The innovativeness of national policy portfolios – climate policy change in Austria, Germany, and the UK

Schaffrin

Sewerin

Seubert

2014

Environmental Politics

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To determine whether innovations in policy concerning climate-change mitigation are symbolic or truly radical in the sense of 'tipping' existing policy portfolios towards a new instrumental logic, we study policy innovations in the context of pre-existing policy portfolios and analyse the associated dynamics over time. Our analysis is facilitated by a new measurement of policy output, the Index of Climate Policy Activity. This new approach sheds light on the relative importance of policy innovations in complex policy portfolios, and serves as a blueprint for further analyses of the politics of policy innovation. Empirically, we analyse policy innovations within the policy portfolios of energy production in Austria, Germany, and the UK between 1998 and 2010. We find high stability in the instrumental logic but substantial change in policy settings and calibrations.

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Institutional stability and change: two sides of the same coin¹

Cited by 65 publications

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Historical-institutionalist perspectives on the development of the EU budget system

Historical-institutionalist perspectives on the development of the EU budget system

Discourse Analysis: Studying Changing Discourse in British Parliamentary Debates

The innovativeness of national policy portfolios – climate policy change in Austria, Germany, and the UK

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