EU Socio-Economic Governance since the Crisis
This book is the first to be dedicated entirely to the European Semestera new framework for policy coordination across European Union (EU) member states. The semester represents a major advancement in EU governance. Created in 2010 in the wake of the financial and sovereign debt crises and revamped in 2015, it was intended to provide a new socio-economic governance architecture to coordinate national policies without transferring legal sovereignty to EU level. The chapters in this book are written by authors who have already contributed to this literature and have conducted original research for their studies. The book offers an empirical and theoretical assessment of the European Semester, examining its implications along three critical axes, running respectively between the economic and the social, the supranational and the intergovernmental, and the technocratic and democratic poles of EU governance. The book concludes that the European Semester challenges established theoretical understandings of EU governance, as it is a prime example of the complexity that supersedes simple polar oppositions.
The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Distinguished Faculty Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Scientific Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE).
Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam, and the Faculty of Social Science Lansdowne Distinguished Fellow in European Integration Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Journal of European Public Policy Series
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Jeremy Richardson, Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK, and National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Berthold Rittberger, International Relations at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, University of Munich, Germany
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.
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EU Socio-Economic Governance since the Crisis
The European Semester in theory and practice
Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Amy Verdun
Innovative Approaches to EU Multilevel Implementation
Moving beyond legal compliance
Edited by Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager
Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy
Post-exceptionalism in public policy
Edited by Carsten Daugbjerg and Peter Feindt
European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity
Edited by Tanja Brzel, Antoaneta L. Dimitrova and Frank Schimmelfennig
Governance by International Public Administrations
Bureaucratic influence and global public policies
Edited by Christoph Knill and Michael Bauer
The European Union at an Inflection Point
(Dis)integrating or the new normal
Edited by Alasdair Young
Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism
Edited by John Erik Fossum and Markus Jachtenfuchs
Political Budgeting Across Europe
Edited by Christian Breunig, Christine S. Lipsmeyer and Guy D. Whitten
Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy
Edited by Daniel Bland, Martin B. Carstensen and Leonard Seabrooke
The European Union as a Global Regulator
Edited by Alasdair Young
Differentiated Integration in the European Union
Edited by Benjamin Leruth and Christopher Lord
Legislative Lobbying in Context
The policy and polity determinants of interest group politics in the European Union
Edited by Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun and Heike Klver
EU Socio-Economic Governance since the Crisis
The European Semester in Theory and Practice
Edited by
Jonathan Zeitlin and Amy Verdun
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Contents
Amy Verdun and Jonathan Zeitlin
Jonathan Zeitlin and Bart Vanhercke
Sonja Bekker
Adina Maricut and Uwe Puetter
James D. Savage and David Howarth
Edgars Eihmanis
Mark Hallerberg, Benedicta Marzinotto and Guntram B. Wolff
Ben Crum
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of European Public Policy, volume 25, issue 2 (2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Amy Verdun and Jonathan Zeitlin
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 25, issue 2 (2018) pp. 137148
Jonathan Zeitlin and Bart Vanhercke
Journal of European Public Policy, volume 25, issue 2 (2018) pp. 149174
Sonja Bekker
Journal of European Public Policy