Klaus H Goetz - The Eu Timescape

The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This book makes a case for the systematic study of political time in the European Union (EU) - both as an independent and a dependent variable -and highlights the analytical value-added of a time-centred analysis. The book discusses previous scholarship on the institutionalization of political time and its consequences along the dimensions of polity, politics and policy; reviews dominant perspectives on political time, which centre on power, system performance and legitimacy; and presents case studies that illustrate the importance of time in the governance of the EU.

This book was original published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

Klaus H. Goetz holds the Chair in German and European Politics and Government at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling is Associate Professor of European Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Series Editor: Jeremy Richardson is a Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University

This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.

Cross-National Policy Convergence
Causes Concepts and Empirical Findings
Edited by Christoph Knill

Civilian or Military Power?
European Foreign Policy in Perspective
Edited by Helene Sjursen

International Influence Beyond Conditionality
Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement
Edited by Rachel A. Epstein and Ulrich Sedelmeier

The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
Edited by Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen

EU External Governance
Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership
Edited by Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig

EMU and Political Science
What Have We Learned?
Edited by Henrik Enderlein and Amy Verdun

Political Representation and EU Governance
Edited by Peter Mair and Jacques Thomassen

Europe and the Management of Globalization
Edited by Wade Jacoby and Sophie Meunier

Negotiation Theory and the EU
The State of the Art
Edited by Andreas Dr, Gemma Mateo and Daniel C. Thomas

The European Unions Foreign Economic Policies
A Principal-Agent Perspective
Edited by Andreas Dr and Michael Elsig

The Politics of the Lisbon Agenda
Governance Architectures and Domestic Usages of Europe
Edited by Susana Borrs and Claudio M. Radaelli

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Publishers Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book may be referred to as articles as they are identical to the articles published in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Klaus H. Goetz and Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

Klaus H. Goetz

Luc Tholoniat

Laszlo Kovats

Graham Avery

Katja Lass-Lennecke and Annika Werner

Kenneth Dyson

Simon Bulmer

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling and Klaus H. Goetz

This special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy documents the work of Team 26 within the framework of EU-CONSENT. The funding provided by EU-CONSENT allowed the authors to meet on several occasions to present and discuss their ideas at academic workshops and panels at the University of Potsdam; the EUSA Biennial Conference in Montreal; the 4th ECPR General Conference in Pisa; the 4th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics in Riga; and at several EU-CONSENT Plenary Conferences. We wish to thank Attila gh, Esra LaGro, Philippe Schmitter and Ulf Sverdrup for their help in getting us off to an excellent start in Potsdam; and Frank Schimmelfennig and Radoslaw Zubek for their most constructive comments as discussants at the Montreal and Pisa events respectively. Goetz would also like to thank Morten Egeberg, Johan Olsen and Ulf Sverdrup for the opportunity to take part in CONNEX-sponsored workshops in Barcelona and London and for the invitation to talk to staff and students at ARENA in Oslo.