Ellen Mastenbroek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4371047 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ellen Mastenbroek |
| NOMBRES | Ellen |
| APELLIDO | Mastenbroek |
| FIRMA | MASTENBROEK E |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1735-3043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 438 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Beyond forbearance? Mapping and assessing the EU’s emergent compliance promotion architecture
The EU has a highly centralised, potentially powerful instrument for enforcement: the European Commission can instigate infringement procedures against member states that violate EU policies. Yet, recent research has suggested that the Commission curtails enforcement to ensure member states’ political support for new policy decisions. This article argues that this perspective is compelling, but incomplete. Over the past decades, the EU has constr…
Interactions in a politicised Europe
Since the 1990s, extensive research has been done on the supranational enforcement of EU law, for good reason; equal application of EU law in member states is crucial to the legitimacy of the Union, the protection of shared interests, and citizens’ rights. Enforcing EU law, primarily a task of the European Commission as ‘guardian of the treaties’, is rife with intra-institutional, inter-institutional, and inter-level interactions. This article pr…
Beyond Exceptional and Ordinary
This study aims to provide a better understanding of how policy‐making changes when an issue is framed as an emergency. Literature on emergency politics provides different views on policy‐making changes resulting from emergency frames, where ordinary and exceptional policy‐making overlap in different ways. This article therefore develops a four‐part framework conceptualising and operationalising the potential policy‐making changes resulting from …
Temporal dynamics of interactions in European Administrative Networks
This article provides an analysis of the temporal development of interactions within SOLVIT, the European Union's problem-solving internal market network. Adopting an agency-based, rationalist approach, we hypothesize that temporal development depends on cross-border interdependence, institutional homogeneity, SOLVIT centre caseload and Brexit. Testing these hypotheses, we control for members’ resources, perceptions of SOLVIT and endogenous netwo…
European administrative networks during times of crisis
European administrative networks (EANs) are an increasingly prominent form of European Union (EU) governance. Although these networks are typically portrayed as important and flexible forms of organization, we lack knowledge of their temporal dimension, including their development in times of crisis. This paper provides a first analysis of network interaction as it unfolds before and during times of severe crisis for the EU internal market. Speci…
The political drivers of information exchange
n Contains fulltext :\n 252651.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union
During the COVID‐19 crisis, European Union (EU) health policy has become high politics. Key parts of EU health cooperation have, however, long developed more discretely in European administrative networks (EANs) and become core building blocks in the institutional architecture of an EU health policy. In these networks, health experts interact regularly and, by doing so, pool key resources and develop common standards. However, are some network me…
Getting State Aid Approved by the European Commission
This article aims to explain the variation in duration of preliminary investigations in the state aid notification procedure. While this procedure is guided by objective standards, preliminary investigations result in an overwhelming majority of cases being approved in combination with a large variation in duration. This study explores the explanatory power of political and managerial factors at the member state and state aid case level to accoun…
The power of ‘weak’ institutions
n Contains fulltext :\n 283802.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Experimenting European healthcare forward. Do institutional differences condition networked governance
n Contains fulltext :\n 239145.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Who Interacts with Whom? Drivers of Networked Welfare Governance in Europe
Migration is often perceived as a challenge to the welfare state. To manage this challenge, advanced welfare states have established transgovernmental networks. This article examines how domestic factors condition the interaction of representatives of advanced welfare states when they cooperate on transnational welfare governance. Based on new survey data, it compares who interacts with whom in one of the oldest transgovernmental networks of the …
Going Nordic in European Administrative Networks
The integration and policymaking of the European Union (EU) are claimed to challenge Nordic cooperation as a separate ‘common order.’ Increasing interdependencies in the EU have forced all EU member states to collaborate and share sovereignty in an increasing number of policy areas. This article studies the coexistence of Nordic cooperation and European integration by taking a network approach. It analyses the extent to which Nordic members of Eu…
Politics or management? Analysing differences in local implementation performance of the EU Ambient Air Quality directive
As far as local governments are responsible for the practical implementation of many European Union (EU) policies, they codetermine member states’ EU compliance records and the fate of EU legislation. Yet, they do so in remarkably different ways, as exemplified by the variegated implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50/EC by Dutch municipalities. Taking guidance from the literature on EU compliance, in this article we explain t…
Evaluations as a decent knowledge base? Describing and explaining the quality of the European Commission’s ex-post legislative evaluations
Evaluations are a potentially important tool for democratic governments: they provide a basis for accountability and policy learning. To contribute to these key functions, evaluations must be of sufficient methodological quality. However, this quality is threatened by both political influences and technical complexities. This article describes and explains the variance in the quality of ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations conducted by the Europ…
Policy Evaluation in Europe
Policy evaluations are increasingly considered a taken-for-granted prerequisite for a well-performing public sector. In this chapter, we address the question whether this view reflects the actual situation concerning evaluation capacity and culture in Europe. First, we reflect on the history of policy evaluation in Europe, by distinguishing between two ‘waves of evaluation’: the countries in Northwestern Europe that have conducted evaluations sin…
Europeanization of Policies and Administration
This chapter assesses the state of play in Europeanization research, focusing on the impact of European integration on national policies and administrations. After dissecting the concept of Europeanization, it sketches this literature’s guiding question: how to account for differential domestic impacts of European integration. It then describes how much Europeanization research has shifted away from a top-down focus on institutional misfits to cr…
Filling the gap in the European administrative space
n Contains fulltext :\n 181999pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Passing the buck? Analyzing the delegation of discretion after transposition of European Union law
This article seeks to map and explain the extent to which national legislators constrain discretion contained in European Union directives during transposition. To this end, we use standard hypotheses from the domestic delegation literature regarding the necessity of policy conflict and transaction costs. Our empirical approach is based on a focused comparison of the transposition of several provisions of the Asylum Reception Conditions Directive…
Enforcement tool or strategic instrument ? The initiation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Whereas the European Commission officially intends to periodically evaluate all major European Union legislation in force, in practice it only evaluates a minority of major regulations and directives. This article tries to explain the variation in the initiation of such ex-post legislative evaluations by the Commission with the help of two theoretical motives: an enforcement motive and a strategic motive. Based on two novel datasets and binary lo…
Guardians of EU law? Analysing roles and behaviour of Dutch legislative drafters involved in EU compliance
n Contains fulltext :\n 558018-20180122101600-16483797705a65abd05457d8.44174642.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The core or the winset? Explaining decision-making duration and policy change in the European Union
Ex post legislative evaluation in the European Union
Evaluations may perform a key role in political systems as they provide a basis for parliaments to hold their executives accountable. This is equally the case in the European Union. Yet, several factors may work against the usage of European Union evaluations for accountability purposes. Members of the European Parliament work under great time pressure and executives may have little incentives to produce high-quality evaluations. This article the…
Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union
This special issue takes stock of recent post-Lisbon additions to the European Union’s accountability toolkit. It provides indications that older decision-making tools tend to be more accountable than newer ones, and that, in some areas, decision-making is shifting towards less accountable arenas. This introductory article reviews the debate on the gradual evolution of the European Union’s accountability system and introduces key aspects of the p…
The other face of Eurolegalism
This article analyzes the implications of European integration for national regulatory enforcement. More specifically, it tests the Eurolegalism thesis, which holds that the tendency of using more detailed, prescriptive European Union (EU) regulation combined with more public and private enforcement leads to a convergence in national enforcement styles. It does so by developing and applying a fine‐grained conceptualization of enforcement style. T…
Closing the regulatory cycle? A meta evaluation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Theoretically, ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations play an important\nrole in the European regulatory cycle. By critically assessing the administration,\ncompliance or outcomes of legislation, they may allow for learning\nand inform enforcement. At the same time, the European Commission may\nhave incentives not to evaluate, as EPL evaluations may lead to undesired\npolicy change or repeal. Furthermore, the development of systematic, highquality…
EU compliance
n Contains fulltext :\n 132272.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Surviving the Deadline
By focusing on the speed of transposition of European directives in the Netherlands, this article evaluates the claim made by various researchers and EU politicians that there is an EU implementation deficit. It has the twofold objective of assessing the timeliness of transposition and explaining delays, using the technique of survival analysis. The main finding is that almost 60 percent of the directives are transposed late, i.e. after the deadl…
Europeanization Beyond the Goodness of Fit
Filling the gap in the European administrative space
n Contains fulltext :\n 181999pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Closing the regulatory cycle? A meta evaluation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Theoretically, ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations play an important\nrole in the European regulatory cycle. By critically assessing the administration,\ncompliance or outcomes of legislation, they may allow for learning\nand inform enforcement. At the same time, the European Commission may\nhave incentives not to evaluate, as EPL evaluations may lead to undesired\npolicy change or repeal. Furthermore, the development of systematic, highquality…
Passing the buck? Analyzing the delegation of discretion after transposition of European Union law
This article seeks to map and explain the extent to which national legislators constrain discretion contained in European Union directives during transposition. To this end, we use standard hypotheses from the domestic delegation literature regarding the necessity of policy conflict and transaction costs. Our empirical approach is based on a focused comparison of the transposition of several provisions of the Asylum Reception Conditions Directive…
Who Interacts with Whom? Drivers of Networked Welfare Governance in Europe
Migration is often perceived as a challenge to the welfare state. To manage this challenge, advanced welfare states have established transgovernmental networks. This article examines how domestic factors condition the interaction of representatives of advanced welfare states when they cooperate on transnational welfare governance. Based on new survey data, it compares who interacts with whom in one of the oldest transgovernmental networks of the …
Politics or management? Analysing differences in local implementation performance of the EU Ambient Air Quality directive
As far as local governments are responsible for the practical implementation of many European Union (EU) policies, they codetermine member states’ EU compliance records and the fate of EU legislation. Yet, they do so in remarkably different ways, as exemplified by the variegated implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50/EC by Dutch municipalities. Taking guidance from the literature on EU compliance, in this article we explain t…
Guardians of EU law? Analysing roles and behaviour of Dutch legislative drafters involved in EU compliance
n Contains fulltext :\n 558018-20180122101600-16483797705a65abd05457d8.44174642.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
National Parliaments and Transposition of EU Law
This article analyses to what extent the mechanism of the coalition conflict model of executive‐legislative relations can account for the extent and policy direction of parliamentary control over domestic transposition, focusing on EU migration law. Our empirical approach is based on an in‐depth cross‐country comparison of the transposition of the Returns Directive in Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. We find that in all four countri…
Clawing Back Lost Powers? Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Transposition of EU Social Policy Directives in the Netherlands
For quite some time parliaments were seen as the losers of European integration. As a reaction, several parliaments have sought to exert more control over the executive branch in EU decision-making. An alternative venue for 'clawing back' these lost powers is by influencing the domestic transposition of EU policies. Surprisingly, this opportunity for greater parliamentary involvement has not received much scholarly attention. Under what condition…
The power of ‘weak’ institutions
n Contains fulltext :\n 283802.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The core or the winset? Explaining decision-making duration and policy change in the European Union
The other face of Eurolegalism
This article analyzes the implications of European integration for national regulatory enforcement. More specifically, it tests the Eurolegalism thesis, which holds that the tendency of using more detailed, prescriptive European Union (EU) regulation combined with more public and private enforcement leads to a convergence in national enforcement styles. It does so by developing and applying a fine‐grained conceptualization of enforcement style. T…
Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union
During the COVID‐19 crisis, European Union (EU) health policy has become high politics. Key parts of EU health cooperation have, however, long developed more discretely in European administrative networks (EANs) and become core building blocks in the institutional architecture of an EU health policy. In these networks, health experts interact regularly and, by doing so, pool key resources and develop common standards. However, are some network me…
Enforcement tool or strategic instrument ? The initiation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Whereas the European Commission officially intends to periodically evaluate all major European Union legislation in force, in practice it only evaluates a minority of major regulations and directives. This article tries to explain the variation in the initiation of such ex-post legislative evaluations by the Commission with the help of two theoretical motives: an enforcement motive and a strategic motive. Based on two novel datasets and binary lo…
The political drivers of information exchange
n Contains fulltext :\n 252651.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Experimenting European healthcare forward. Do institutional differences condition networked governance
n Contains fulltext :\n 239145.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Time for Eu Matters
To what extent does the European Union (EU) affect national governments? This article seeks to answer this question by assessing the Europeanization of Dutch central government. Using data from a large-scale survey among civil servants, we assess to what extent the EU affects the structure and culture of governmental organizations, as well as the activities of individual civil servants. On the basis of this analysis, we conclude that the impact o…
Ex post legislative evaluation in the European Union
Evaluations may perform a key role in political systems as they provide a basis for parliaments to hold their executives accountable. This is equally the case in the European Union. Yet, several factors may work against the usage of European Union evaluations for accountability purposes. Members of the European Parliament work under great time pressure and executives may have little incentives to produce high-quality evaluations. This article the…
Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union
This special issue takes stock of recent post-Lisbon additions to the European Union’s accountability toolkit. It provides indications that older decision-making tools tend to be more accountable than newer ones, and that, in some areas, decision-making is shifting towards less accountable arenas. This introductory article reviews the debate on the gradual evolution of the European Union’s accountability system and introduces key aspects of the p…
Guardians of the Law or Loyal Administrators
Many of the civil servants who draft legislation in the Netherlands perceive themselves as loyal advocates for the political executive rather than as guardians of the law. This means that they may be selective in performing tests of legality, to the point of developing innovative legal interpretations. This article investigates whether their attitude can be defended from an ethical perspective. Assessment of the different justifications for loyal…
Evaluations as a decent knowledge base? Describing and explaining the quality of the European Commission’s ex-post legislative evaluations
Evaluations are a potentially important tool for democratic governments: they provide a basis for accountability and policy learning. To contribute to these key functions, evaluations must be of sufficient methodological quality. However, this quality is threatened by both political influences and technical complexities. This article describes and explains the variance in the quality of ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations conducted by the Europ…
Water safety and spatial development
Going Nordic in European Administrative Networks
The integration and policymaking of the European Union (EU) are claimed to challenge Nordic cooperation as a separate ‘common order.’ Increasing interdependencies in the EU have forced all EU member states to collaborate and share sovereignty in an increasing number of policy areas. This article studies the coexistence of Nordic cooperation and European integration by taking a network approach. It analyses the extent to which Nordic members of Eu…
Surviving the Deadline
By focusing on the speed of transposition of European directives in the Netherlands, this article evaluates the claim made by various researchers and EU politicians that there is an EU implementation deficit. It has the twofold objective of assessing the timeliness of transposition and explaining delays, using the technique of survival analysis. The main finding is that almost 60 percent of the directives are transposed late, i.e. after the deadl…
Surviving the Deadline
By focusing on the speed of transposition of European directives in the Netherlands, this article evaluates the claim made by various researchers and EU politicians that there is an EU implementation deficit. It has the twofold objective of assessing the timeliness of transposition and explaining delays, using the technique of survival analysis. The main finding is that almost 60 percent of the directives are transposed late, i.e. after the deadl…
EU compliance
n Contains fulltext :\n 132272.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Europeanization Beyond the Goodness of Fit
Transcending the Goodness of Fit
Last Words on Delegation
n Contains fulltext :\n 68656.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Time for Eu Matters
To what extent does the European Union (EU) affect national governments? This article seeks to answer this question by assessing the Europeanization of Dutch central government. Using data from a large-scale survey among civil servants, we assess to what extent the EU affects the structure and culture of governmental organizations, as well as the activities of individual civil servants. On the basis of this analysis, we conclude that the impact o…
Guardians of the Law or Loyal Administrators
Many of the civil servants who draft legislation in the Netherlands perceive themselves as loyal advocates for the political executive rather than as guardians of the law. This means that they may be selective in performing tests of legality, to the point of developing innovative legal interpretations. This article investigates whether their attitude can be defended from an ethical perspective. Assessment of the different justifications for loyal…
Water safety and spatial development
Policy Without Politicians
Clawing Back Lost Powers? Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Transposition of EU Social Policy Directives in the Netherlands
For quite some time parliaments were seen as the losers of European integration. As a reaction, several parliaments have sought to exert more control over the executive branch in EU decision-making. An alternative venue for 'clawing back' these lost powers is by influencing the domestic transposition of EU policies. Surprisingly, this opportunity for greater parliamentary involvement has not received much scholarly attention. Under what condition…
National Parliaments and Transposition of EU Law
This article analyses to what extent the mechanism of the coalition conflict model of executive‐legislative relations can account for the extent and policy direction of parliamentary control over domestic transposition, focusing on EU migration law. Our empirical approach is based on an in‐depth cross‐country comparison of the transposition of the Returns Directive in Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. We find that in all four countri…
The core or the winset? Explaining decision-making duration and policy change in the European Union
Ex post legislative evaluation in the European Union
Evaluations may perform a key role in political systems as they provide a basis for parliaments to hold their executives accountable. This is equally the case in the European Union. Yet, several factors may work against the usage of European Union evaluations for accountability purposes. Members of the European Parliament work under great time pressure and executives may have little incentives to produce high-quality evaluations. This article the…
Accountability in the post-Lisbon European Union
This special issue takes stock of recent post-Lisbon additions to the European Union’s accountability toolkit. It provides indications that older decision-making tools tend to be more accountable than newer ones, and that, in some areas, decision-making is shifting towards less accountable arenas. This introductory article reviews the debate on the gradual evolution of the European Union’s accountability system and introduces key aspects of the p…
The other face of Eurolegalism
This article analyzes the implications of European integration for national regulatory enforcement. More specifically, it tests the Eurolegalism thesis, which holds that the tendency of using more detailed, prescriptive European Union (EU) regulation combined with more public and private enforcement leads to a convergence in national enforcement styles. It does so by developing and applying a fine‐grained conceptualization of enforcement style. T…
Closing the regulatory cycle? A meta evaluation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Theoretically, ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations play an important\nrole in the European regulatory cycle. By critically assessing the administration,\ncompliance or outcomes of legislation, they may allow for learning\nand inform enforcement. At the same time, the European Commission may\nhave incentives not to evaluate, as EPL evaluations may lead to undesired\npolicy change or repeal. Furthermore, the development of systematic, highquality…
Passing the buck? Analyzing the delegation of discretion after transposition of European Union law
This article seeks to map and explain the extent to which national legislators constrain discretion contained in European Union directives during transposition. To this end, we use standard hypotheses from the domestic delegation literature regarding the necessity of policy conflict and transaction costs. Our empirical approach is based on a focused comparison of the transposition of several provisions of the Asylum Reception Conditions Directive…
Enforcement tool or strategic instrument ? The initiation of ex-post legislative evaluations by the European Commission
Whereas the European Commission officially intends to periodically evaluate all major European Union legislation in force, in practice it only evaluates a minority of major regulations and directives. This article tries to explain the variation in the initiation of such ex-post legislative evaluations by the Commission with the help of two theoretical motives: an enforcement motive and a strategic motive. Based on two novel datasets and binary lo…
Guardians of EU law? Analysing roles and behaviour of Dutch legislative drafters involved in EU compliance
n Contains fulltext :\n 558018-20180122101600-16483797705a65abd05457d8.44174642.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Policy Evaluation in Europe
Policy evaluations are increasingly considered a taken-for-granted prerequisite for a well-performing public sector. In this chapter, we address the question whether this view reflects the actual situation concerning evaluation capacity and culture in Europe. First, we reflect on the history of policy evaluation in Europe, by distinguishing between two ‘waves of evaluation’: the countries in Northwestern Europe that have conducted evaluations sin…
Europeanization of Policies and Administration
This chapter assesses the state of play in Europeanization research, focusing on the impact of European integration on national policies and administrations. After dissecting the concept of Europeanization, it sketches this literature’s guiding question: how to account for differential domestic impacts of European integration. It then describes how much Europeanization research has shifted away from a top-down focus on institutional misfits to cr…
Filling the gap in the European administrative space
n Contains fulltext :\n 181999pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Evaluations as a decent knowledge base? Describing and explaining the quality of the European Commission’s ex-post legislative evaluations
Evaluations are a potentially important tool for democratic governments: they provide a basis for accountability and policy learning. To contribute to these key functions, evaluations must be of sufficient methodological quality. However, this quality is threatened by both political influences and technical complexities. This article describes and explains the variance in the quality of ex-post legislative (EPL) evaluations conducted by the Europ…
Going Nordic in European Administrative Networks
The integration and policymaking of the European Union (EU) are claimed to challenge Nordic cooperation as a separate ‘common order.’ Increasing interdependencies in the EU have forced all EU member states to collaborate and share sovereignty in an increasing number of policy areas. This article studies the coexistence of Nordic cooperation and European integration by taking a network approach. It analyses the extent to which Nordic members of Eu…
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