The EU Commission During the Covid‐19 Crisis
Attempts at Self‐Empowerment, or Not
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10069712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gijs Jan Brandsma (0000-0002-0631-4786, Department of Public Administration, Institute for Management Research Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, corresponding author), Jens Blom-Hansen (0000-0002-7148-0334, Department of Political Science Aarhus University Aarhus) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 438-466 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13627 |
| OpenAlex | W4399786405 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
We argue that the European Commission, like national governments, is likely to have used the Covid‐19 crisis as an opportunity to bolster its own powers. We focus on the Commission's attempts to insert into legal proposals provisions to adopt delegated or implementing acts, as this is the only possible way to gain lasting rule‐making powers. We analyse all the Commission's legal proposals for an equal time span before and after the start of the Covid‐19 crisis and study whether the number of proposed delegation provisions has changed after the onset of the crisis. The analysis, to our surprise, does not show any clear evidence of a self‐empowerment strategy. In the conclusion, we discuss likely explanations for this non‐finding
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Commission · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economic policy · Empowerment · European commission · European union · Political science · European Union Policy and Governance · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine · Virology
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The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century
The Powers of the Union
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
European integration (theory) in times of crisis. A comparison of the euro and Schengen crises
The Politics of Crisis Management
Comitology Choices in the Eu Legislative Process
Opportunity management of the Covid-19 pandemic
Tracing divergence in crisis governance
Public governance, agility and pandemics
The ‘political’ roles of the European Commission
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The Uniting of Europe
Managing the house
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Crisis pressures and European integration
The European Commission and the Covid-19 pandemic
Technocratic and independent? The appointment of European Commissioners and its policy implications
Controlling delegated powers in the post-Lisbon European Union
EU free movement of people
Executive politics as usual
A comparison of two views on the European Commission
The Institutional Foundations of Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism in the European Union
The effect of public attitudes toward the European Union on European Commission policy activity
Measuring actual discretion of the European Commission
Endogenous Preferences And Delegation In The European Union
The Commission
Next generation EU and the future of economic governance
The Commission in EU Policy Preparation
Negotiating the Post‐Lisbon Comitology System
Measuring salience in EU legislative politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |