Susanne K Schmidt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4378528 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susanne K Schmidt |
| NOMBRES | Susanne K |
| APELLIDO | Schmidt |
| FIRMA | SCHMIDT S K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7931-9935 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 454 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
American Services in European Perspective
The European Union identifies the sector of construction services as a priority for its agenda to remove barriers to cross-border activity. Taking the EU’s efforts as a starting point, this article explores the politics of interstate barriers in construction services in the United States. To what extent do US construction firms encounter internal-border barriers like those targeted by the EU? If they do, how much business mobilization and governm…
Federal Spirits
This article compares the politics of internal market governance in the European Union and the United States by focusing on a shippable but highly regulated “sin” good: distilled spirits. A few generations ago, both arenas governed spirits in highly decentralized and varied ways. Over time, Europe has centralized regulation to increase market openness while the United States has seen little change. Today regulatory differences between American st…
Asymmetry resolved? Revisiting negative and positive European integration
Concluding reflections
German capitalism and migrant work in meat. How Covid allowed to break the path-dependent labour exploitation
Major COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses brought the extent of migrant labour exploitation in the German meat sector to the limelight. Adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic marked a critical juncture for migrant workers, albeit with highly contingent effects. Only in the meat sector could political salience enable a far-reaching policy response. By contrast, precisely to avoid any broader effec…
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector
In this article, we trace Germany's recent reform (and its precursors) seeking to remedy precarious working conditions in the meat sector. Focusing on an extreme case of labour exploitation, and asking how unique it is, allows us to uncover which institutional features of EU Member States condition the liberalization effects of negative integration. We thereby contribute to the literature on Europeanization, which has mainly emphasized weak indus…
Free Movement and Non-Discrimination in an Unequal Union
No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit
The abundant literature on the UK’s Brexit-decision has focused on explaining the politicization and preference formation leading up to the referendum. But the institutional background has received much less attention. I argue that as a common-law country with a tradition of parliamentary sover-eignty, the UK exhibits institutional features that pose a significant mismatch to the prevailing policy-making mode in the European Union. The latter rel…
A hidden champion? The European Court of Justice as an agenda‐setter in the case of posted workers
Since the comparative turn in European integration research, analyses of the legislative process of the EU have taken inspiration from research on national political systems. While the consequences of the formal monopoly of initiative of the Commission are much analysed, it is only recently that the role of the Court in EU legislation has been further appreciated. In the literature, it is disputed how far case law constrains the EU legislator. Th…
Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union
The European Union’s (EU) fundamental principles of free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of the welfare state. Whereas the relationship between the EU and the welfare state appeared largely reconciled before the grand enlargement of 2004, economic downturn and politicisation question the nexus anew. This collection explores the current dynamics, scope and limits of free movement and welfare …
Failing on the social dimension
National welfare states and free movement rights are in tension in the European Union (EU). Yet, despite potential free-riding dynamics, fully developed welfare states appear remarkably resilient. Two explanations can account for this in the literature: institutional heterogeneity of welfare states leads to differential impact of free movement, and contained compliance with EU legal obligations means that non-discrimination provisions exist mainl…
Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over‐constitutionalization
The European Union ( EU ) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court's jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass proc…
The European Court of Justice and its political impact
This article reviews recent advances in the study of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and its political impact at the European and member state levels. New quantitative as well as qualitative analyses show with great empirical precision that member state preferences guide the Court. The article summarises these findings, but argues that greater attention needs to be given to the (over-)constitutionalisation of EU law in order to fully capture …
Squaring the circle with mutual recognition?Demoi-cratic governance in practice
This contribution analyses the experience of the European Union (EU) with mutual recognition in the single market for goods and the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) as examples of multi-centred governance. In how far is it possible to respond to the functional needs for transborder mobility while protecting the choices of demoi and individual rights? Does the experience in the EU show that recognition of diversity is an alternative to harmonization …
Welfare migration? Free movement of EU citizens and access to social benefits
This article analyzes the political impact of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) case law concerning the free movement of EU citizens and their cross-border access to social benefits. Public debates about ‘welfare migration’ or ‘social tourism’ often fluctuate between populist hysteria and outright denial, but they obscure the real political and legal issues at stake: that ECJ jurisprudence incrementally broadens EU citizens’ opportunities to …
Judicial Europeanisation
The Court of Justice of the European Union is an important motor of integration and is said to be particularly strong in those cases where the Council shows an inability to act. What is the relevance of the Court to social Europe? Europeanisation studies analyse how member states change due to European integration. Judicial Europeanisation is a topic that is under-explored in the literature. Using a case-study approach, this paper analyses the Za…
Introduction – the European Court of Justice and legal integration
Who cares about nationality? The path-dependent case law of the ECJ from goods to citizens
The role that the ECJ plays in European integration has been much discussed by political scientists. Less is known about how case law develops. In this contribution, I give a historical–institutionalist account and argue that path dependence explains the course that case law takes. Litigants provide positive feedback in this process, aiming to strengthen their rights by transferring legal arguments from one area to the next, leading to a converge…
When Efficiency Results in Redistribution
The discussion of the Services Directive from 2004 onwards showed an unprecedented extent of politicisation of a single-market issue. Coinciding with the Eastern enlargement in 2004, the easing of the services freedom through the Directive raised significant redistributive issues, given the differences in labour costs. The article analyses why mutual recognition is so controversial in services, by contrast with its acceptance in developing the in…
Beyond Compliance
Europeanization – that is the domestic impact of European integration on member states – is rightly attracting increasing attention, given the extent to which European integration determines domestic policies. However, the debate on Europeanization focuses predominantly on the conditions for successful compliance with European secondary law. This note argues that this focus insufficiently captures the implications of member states being part of a…
Internationalization and Economic Institutions. Comparing European Experiences – By M. Thatcher
Mutual recognition ‘on trial
In his 1986 White Paper on completing the single market, Lord Cockfield hailed mutual recognition as the miracle formula for the much needed liberalization of services markets. Twenty years later, the European Union is passing a services directive where the principle of mutual recognition is conspicuously absent, at a time when effective liberalization seems ever more necessary. How do we explain this puzzle? Why has mutual recognition been put '…
Mutual recognition as a new mode of governance
Mutual recognition is generally not mentioned in debates about new\nmodes of governance, though it is an important alternative to hierarchical steering in\nthe form of harmonization. Next to its broad use in the single market, mutual recognition\nhas been transferred to justice and home affairs, and becomes relevant also\nbeyond the European Union. This article discusses how far mutual recognition\nmeets the criteria of new modes of governance. C…
Probleme der Osterweiterung. Kleine Länder in der Europäischen Union
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 67 - 85
Reform in the shadow of community law
Characteristics of the German model of managed capitalism were particularly pronounced in highly regulated sectors and the utilities. Nevertheless, farreaching reforms were enacted. Taking the examples of telecommunications,\nelectricity, insurance and road haulage regulation, this study examines the locked-in nature of domestic sector regulations. Demonstrating the importance of the impact of European policies for domestic reforms, it shows how …
Only an Agenda Setter
What is the scope for autonomous action of the European Commission? Its independence is much more contentious than that of the European Court of Justice, which is generally considered quite autonomous. While the literature on the Commission focuses predominantly on its ability to use its agenda-setting powers, the Commission's other means to influence European integration have been less well established. In this paper, I demonstrate how the Commi…
Commission activism
Under European competition law the Commission has far-reaching competences. The article asks about the conditions under which the Commission may use these rights against the member states, focusing on the most powerful provision—the right of the Commission under Article 90 to issue directives by itself in those cases where member state governments have endowed undertakings with rights conflicting with the Treaty's rules. In European telecommunica…
Mutual recognition as a new mode of governance
Mutual recognition is generally not mentioned in debates about new\nmodes of governance, though it is an important alternative to hierarchical steering in\nthe form of harmonization. Next to its broad use in the single market, mutual recognition\nhas been transferred to justice and home affairs, and becomes relevant also\nbeyond the European Union. This article discusses how far mutual recognition\nmeets the criteria of new modes of governance. C…
Sterile Debates and Dubious Generalisations
Analyses of European integration processes are still dominated by the dichotomous debate between intergovernmentalism and suprana-tionalism. Sides are often taken in this debate based on very case-specific empirical findings. An analysis of two cases, European telecommunications and electricity policy, illustrates how misleading such generalisations can be. The former case is often used to support supranational claims, while the latter highlights…
The European Court of Justice and its political impact
This article reviews recent advances in the study of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and its political impact at the European and member state levels. New quantitative as well as qualitative analyses show with great empirical precision that member state preferences guide the Court. The article summarises these findings, but argues that greater attention needs to be given to the (over-)constitutionalisation of EU law in order to fully capture …
Introduction – the European Court of Justice and legal integration
Mutual recognition ‘on trial
In his 1986 White Paper on completing the single market, Lord Cockfield hailed mutual recognition as the miracle formula for the much needed liberalization of services markets. Twenty years later, the European Union is passing a services directive where the principle of mutual recognition is conspicuously absent, at a time when effective liberalization seems ever more necessary. How do we explain this puzzle? Why has mutual recognition been put '…
Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union
The European Union’s (EU) fundamental principles of free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of the welfare state. Whereas the relationship between the EU and the welfare state appeared largely reconciled before the grand enlargement of 2004, economic downturn and politicisation question the nexus anew. This collection explores the current dynamics, scope and limits of free movement and welfare …
Who cares about nationality? The path-dependent case law of the ECJ from goods to citizens
The role that the ECJ plays in European integration has been much discussed by political scientists. Less is known about how case law develops. In this contribution, I give a historical–institutionalist account and argue that path dependence explains the course that case law takes. Litigants provide positive feedback in this process, aiming to strengthen their rights by transferring legal arguments from one area to the next, leading to a converge…
Welfare migration? Free movement of EU citizens and access to social benefits
This article analyzes the political impact of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) case law concerning the free movement of EU citizens and their cross-border access to social benefits. Public debates about ‘welfare migration’ or ‘social tourism’ often fluctuate between populist hysteria and outright denial, but they obscure the real political and legal issues at stake: that ECJ jurisprudence incrementally broadens EU citizens’ opportunities to …
Beyond Compliance
Europeanization – that is the domestic impact of European integration on member states – is rightly attracting increasing attention, given the extent to which European integration determines domestic policies. However, the debate on Europeanization focuses predominantly on the conditions for successful compliance with European secondary law. This note argues that this focus insufficiently captures the implications of member states being part of a…
When Efficiency Results in Redistribution
The discussion of the Services Directive from 2004 onwards showed an unprecedented extent of politicisation of a single-market issue. Coinciding with the Eastern enlargement in 2004, the easing of the services freedom through the Directive raised significant redistributive issues, given the differences in labour costs. The article analyses why mutual recognition is so controversial in services, by contrast with its acceptance in developing the in…
Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over‐constitutionalization
The European Union ( EU ) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court's jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass proc…
Failing on the social dimension
National welfare states and free movement rights are in tension in the European Union (EU). Yet, despite potential free-riding dynamics, fully developed welfare states appear remarkably resilient. Two explanations can account for this in the literature: institutional heterogeneity of welfare states leads to differential impact of free movement, and contained compliance with EU legal obligations means that non-discrimination provisions exist mainl…
Judicial Europeanisation
The Court of Justice of the European Union is an important motor of integration and is said to be particularly strong in those cases where the Council shows an inability to act. What is the relevance of the Court to social Europe? Europeanisation studies analyse how member states change due to European integration. Judicial Europeanisation is a topic that is under-explored in the literature. Using a case-study approach, this paper analyses the Za…
No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit
The abundant literature on the UK’s Brexit-decision has focused on explaining the politicization and preference formation leading up to the referendum. But the institutional background has received much less attention. I argue that as a common-law country with a tradition of parliamentary sover-eignty, the UK exhibits institutional features that pose a significant mismatch to the prevailing policy-making mode in the European Union. The latter rel…
The impact of mutual recognition--inbuilt limits and domestic responses to the single market
What have been the consequences of integrating the single market via mutual recognition? Did competitive deregulation result? Or were its implications less significant than expected? In this paper I analyse two previously highly regulated service sectors, insurance and road haulage, and study the impact of European policies in Germany and France. I find that the Council instituted mutual recognition in a restrictive way. This limits its impact on…
Squaring the circle with mutual recognition?Demoi-cratic governance in practice
This contribution analyses the experience of the European Union (EU) with mutual recognition in the single market for goods and the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) as examples of multi-centred governance. In how far is it possible to respond to the functional needs for transborder mobility while protecting the choices of demoi and individual rights? Does the experience in the EU show that recognition of diversity is an alternative to harmonization …
Asymmetry resolved? Revisiting negative and positive European integration
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector
In this article, we trace Germany's recent reform (and its precursors) seeking to remedy precarious working conditions in the meat sector. Focusing on an extreme case of labour exploitation, and asking how unique it is, allows us to uncover which institutional features of EU Member States condition the liberalization effects of negative integration. We thereby contribute to the literature on Europeanization, which has mainly emphasized weak indus…
A hidden champion? The European Court of Justice as an agenda‐setter in the case of posted workers
Since the comparative turn in European integration research, analyses of the legislative process of the EU have taken inspiration from research on national political systems. While the consequences of the formal monopoly of initiative of the Commission are much analysed, it is only recently that the role of the Court in EU legislation has been further appreciated. In the literature, it is disputed how far case law constrains the EU legislator. Th…
Reform in the shadow of community law
Characteristics of the German model of managed capitalism were particularly pronounced in highly regulated sectors and the utilities. Nevertheless, farreaching reforms were enacted. Taking the examples of telecommunications,\nelectricity, insurance and road haulage regulation, this study examines the locked-in nature of domestic sector regulations. Demonstrating the importance of the impact of European policies for domestic reforms, it shows how …
Concluding reflections
Probleme der Osterweiterung. Kleine Länder in der Europäischen Union
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 67 - 85
Sterile Debates and Dubious Generalisations
Analyses of European integration processes are still dominated by the dichotomous debate between intergovernmentalism and suprana-tionalism. Sides are often taken in this debate based on very case-specific empirical findings. An analysis of two cases, European telecommunications and electricity policy, illustrates how misleading such generalisations can be. The former case is often used to support supranational claims, while the latter highlights…
Commission activism
Under European competition law the Commission has far-reaching competences. The article asks about the conditions under which the Commission may use these rights against the member states, focusing on the most powerful provision—the right of the Commission under Article 90 to issue directives by itself in those cases where member state governments have endowed undertakings with rights conflicting with the Treaty's rules. In European telecommunica…
Only an Agenda Setter
What is the scope for autonomous action of the European Commission? Its independence is much more contentious than that of the European Court of Justice, which is generally considered quite autonomous. While the literature on the Commission focuses predominantly on its ability to use its agenda-setting powers, the Commission's other means to influence European integration have been less well established. In this paper, I demonstrate how the Commi…
The impact of mutual recognition--inbuilt limits and domestic responses to the single market
What have been the consequences of integrating the single market via mutual recognition? Did competitive deregulation result? Or were its implications less significant than expected? In this paper I analyse two previously highly regulated service sectors, insurance and road haulage, and study the impact of European policies in Germany and France. I find that the Council instituted mutual recognition in a restrictive way. This limits its impact on…
Reform in the shadow of community law
Characteristics of the German model of managed capitalism were particularly pronounced in highly regulated sectors and the utilities. Nevertheless, farreaching reforms were enacted. Taking the examples of telecommunications,\nelectricity, insurance and road haulage regulation, this study examines the locked-in nature of domestic sector regulations. Demonstrating the importance of the impact of European policies for domestic reforms, it shows how …
Probleme der Osterweiterung. Kleine Länder in der Europäischen Union
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 67 - 85
Mutual recognition ‘on trial
In his 1986 White Paper on completing the single market, Lord Cockfield hailed mutual recognition as the miracle formula for the much needed liberalization of services markets. Twenty years later, the European Union is passing a services directive where the principle of mutual recognition is conspicuously absent, at a time when effective liberalization seems ever more necessary. How do we explain this puzzle? Why has mutual recognition been put '…
Mutual recognition as a new mode of governance
Mutual recognition is generally not mentioned in debates about new\nmodes of governance, though it is an important alternative to hierarchical steering in\nthe form of harmonization. Next to its broad use in the single market, mutual recognition\nhas been transferred to justice and home affairs, and becomes relevant also\nbeyond the European Union. This article discusses how far mutual recognition\nmeets the criteria of new modes of governance. C…
Beyond Compliance
Europeanization – that is the domestic impact of European integration on member states – is rightly attracting increasing attention, given the extent to which European integration determines domestic policies. However, the debate on Europeanization focuses predominantly on the conditions for successful compliance with European secondary law. This note argues that this focus insufficiently captures the implications of member states being part of a…
Internationalization and Economic Institutions. Comparing European Experiences – By M. Thatcher
When Efficiency Results in Redistribution
The discussion of the Services Directive from 2004 onwards showed an unprecedented extent of politicisation of a single-market issue. Coinciding with the Eastern enlargement in 2004, the easing of the services freedom through the Directive raised significant redistributive issues, given the differences in labour costs. The article analyses why mutual recognition is so controversial in services, by contrast with its acceptance in developing the in…
Introduction – the European Court of Justice and legal integration
Who cares about nationality? The path-dependent case law of the ECJ from goods to citizens
The role that the ECJ plays in European integration has been much discussed by political scientists. Less is known about how case law develops. In this contribution, I give a historical–institutionalist account and argue that path dependence explains the course that case law takes. Litigants provide positive feedback in this process, aiming to strengthen their rights by transferring legal arguments from one area to the next, leading to a converge…
Welfare migration? Free movement of EU citizens and access to social benefits
This article analyzes the political impact of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) case law concerning the free movement of EU citizens and their cross-border access to social benefits. Public debates about ‘welfare migration’ or ‘social tourism’ often fluctuate between populist hysteria and outright denial, but they obscure the real political and legal issues at stake: that ECJ jurisprudence incrementally broadens EU citizens’ opportunities to …
Judicial Europeanisation
The Court of Justice of the European Union is an important motor of integration and is said to be particularly strong in those cases where the Council shows an inability to act. What is the relevance of the Court to social Europe? Europeanisation studies analyse how member states change due to European integration. Judicial Europeanisation is a topic that is under-explored in the literature. Using a case-study approach, this paper analyses the Za…
Squaring the circle with mutual recognition?Demoi-cratic governance in practice
This contribution analyses the experience of the European Union (EU) with mutual recognition in the single market for goods and the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) as examples of multi-centred governance. In how far is it possible to respond to the functional needs for transborder mobility while protecting the choices of demoi and individual rights? Does the experience in the EU show that recognition of diversity is an alternative to harmonization …
Free movement, the welfare state, and the European Union's over‐constitutionalization
The European Union ( EU ) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court's jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass proc…
The European Court of Justice and its political impact
This article reviews recent advances in the study of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and its political impact at the European and member state levels. New quantitative as well as qualitative analyses show with great empirical precision that member state preferences guide the Court. The article summarises these findings, but argues that greater attention needs to be given to the (over-)constitutionalisation of EU law in order to fully capture …
Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union
The European Union’s (EU) fundamental principles of free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of the welfare state. Whereas the relationship between the EU and the welfare state appeared largely reconciled before the grand enlargement of 2004, economic downturn and politicisation question the nexus anew. This collection explores the current dynamics, scope and limits of free movement and welfare …
Failing on the social dimension
National welfare states and free movement rights are in tension in the European Union (EU). Yet, despite potential free-riding dynamics, fully developed welfare states appear remarkably resilient. Two explanations can account for this in the literature: institutional heterogeneity of welfare states leads to differential impact of free movement, and contained compliance with EU legal obligations means that non-discrimination provisions exist mainl…
A hidden champion? The European Court of Justice as an agenda‐setter in the case of posted workers
Since the comparative turn in European integration research, analyses of the legislative process of the EU have taken inspiration from research on national political systems. While the consequences of the formal monopoly of initiative of the Commission are much analysed, it is only recently that the role of the Court in EU legislation has been further appreciated. In the literature, it is disputed how far case law constrains the EU legislator. Th…
Free Movement and Non-Discrimination in an Unequal Union
No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit
The abundant literature on the UK’s Brexit-decision has focused on explaining the politicization and preference formation leading up to the referendum. But the institutional background has received much less attention. I argue that as a common-law country with a tradition of parliamentary sover-eignty, the UK exhibits institutional features that pose a significant mismatch to the prevailing policy-making mode in the European Union. The latter rel…
German capitalism and migrant work in meat. How Covid allowed to break the path-dependent labour exploitation
Major COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses brought the extent of migrant labour exploitation in the German meat sector to the limelight. Adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic marked a critical juncture for migrant workers, albeit with highly contingent effects. Only in the meat sector could political salience enable a far-reaching policy response. By contrast, precisely to avoid any broader effec…
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector
In this article, we trace Germany's recent reform (and its precursors) seeking to remedy precarious working conditions in the meat sector. Focusing on an extreme case of labour exploitation, and asking how unique it is, allows us to uncover which institutional features of EU Member States condition the liberalization effects of negative integration. We thereby contribute to the literature on Europeanization, which has mainly emphasized weak indus…
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