Economic Actors' Political Activity in 'Overlap Issues

Privatisation and EU State Aid Control

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ID6406818
AutoresRaj Chari (0000-0003-2715-1151, Trinity College Dublin, autor de correspondencia), R S Chari, Francesco Cavatorta (0000-0003-2249-1392, Trinity College Dublin)
Año2002
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas119-142
Fecha de publicación2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713601645
OpenAlexW2032594315
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas5

This article considers the political activity of economic actors in what we refer to as 'overlap issues'. The cases examined here are the domestic level privatisation policy-making processes in Spain, France and Ireland, and the subsequent European Commission decisions on state aids given during the sales. Although the influence of economic actors is crucial in understanding the domestic-level privatisation aid negotiations, such actors' participation is absent in the supranational decision-making process. In order to explain this limited political activity of firms at the EU level, attention is focused on both the role of the member states and the paradoxes in EU policies that simultaneously guide and constrain the Commission from making a decision against capital

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