Burkard Eberlein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1016698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burkard Eberlein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burkard |
| FAMILY NAME | Eberlein |
| SIGNATURE | EBERLEIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1592-0451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 521 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by incorporating nuanced forms of business power and multilevel governance settings. We propose the three‐dimens…
Private authority in tackling cross-border issues. The hidden path of integrating European energy markets
We investigate private authority in European Union (EU) energy governance in order to address two research questions: First, how has authority been conferred on, and acquired by private actors? Second, to what extent has this lateral shift of authority been contested and on which grounds? The paper links the literatures on regulatory governance and private authority. This allows us to shed light on an issue that tends to be neglected in the discu…
Grounding transnational business governance
Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public‐private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that integrate and expand this literature. First, in juxtaposition to functionalist accounts, we foreground the fundamentally political and often contentious character of these interactions. As private transnational governance schemes and standards “hit the ground,” private‐publ…
Why do junctures become critical? Political discourse, agency, and joint belief shifts in comparative perspective
Why do junctures become critical in some cases but not in others? Building on the critical juncture framework and perspectives on the formation and diffusion of beliefs, we develop a theoretically parsimonious and empirically traceable account of divergence in institutional outcomes. By illuminating the role of agency and joint belief shifts we further open the “black box” of critical junctures. In particular, we develop the argument that the rol…
Complex Democracy
Transnational business governance interactions
This special issue demonstrates the importance ofinteractionsin transnational business governance. The number of schemes applying non‐state authority to govern business conduct across borders has vastly expanded in numerous issue areas. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one another and with state‐based regimes. The key challenge is to understand the implications of these interactions for regulatory capacity and per…
Abschied Vom Unitarismus?
Mechanisms of Conflict Management in Eu Regulatory Policy
In this conceptual article we explore mechanisms of conflict management in European Union (EU) regulatory policy-making. We argue that the stark dichotomization between logic of consequence and logic of appropriateness has led political scientists to neglect conflict management strategies that work at the edges of aggregation and transformation. While we can still associate these neglected strategies with either aggregation or transformation, it …
The Making of the European Energy Market
This case study asks whether delegated, sectoral governance by private actors and arm’s-length agencies enhances policy efficacy or does sectoral governance require a shadow of hierarchy cast by government actors to deliver desired policy results? EU energy market liberalisation shows that sectoral governance successfully mobilises regulatory expertise, capacity and legitimacy and delivers workable norms and rules for market transactions in a com…
Escaping the International Governance Dilemma? Incorporated Transgovernmental Networks in the European Union
This article investigates the role of transgovernmental networks of national regulators in addressing collective action problems endemic to international cooperation. In contrast to recent work on transgovernmental actors, which emphasizes such networks as alternatives to more traditional international institutions, we examine the synergistic interaction between the two. Building on the broader premise that patterns of “dual delegation” above and…
Beyond delegation
This article investigates the allocation of regulatory authority in the EU. By introducing the concept of a 'regulatory regime', it criticizes not only earlier accounts of the EU 'regulatory state', but also current delegation approaches. As a starting point, it identifies a dilemma for the EU regulatory policy. Despite the rising need for uniform EU-level rules in the internal market, the bulk of formal powers and the institutional focus of regu…
New Governance in the European Union
New modes of governance based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in the European Union (EU). Can these new modes of governance offer a credible solution to the current challenges faced by EU policy‐making? In this article, we assess the potential of new governance in the light of the theory of democratic experimentalism. This theoretical perspective suggests, first, that co‐ordination by vo…
Institutional change and continuity in German infrastructure management
Following the example of telecommunications, German electricity markets were completely liberalised in April 1998. Do these developments signal the erosion of the traditional model of infrastructure management and, thus, of one pillar of the German political economy? The article addresses the issue of change or continuity from a neo‐institutionalist perspective, using electricity reform as a case study. After mapping out the pre‐reform system and…
L'État régulateur en Europe
Le mouvement général vers la privatisation des entreprises publiques et la libéralisation des marchés monopolisés dans les économies européennes ne s'est pas traduit par un retrait pur et simple de l'État. Les gouvernements ont au contraire fortement « re-régulé » les activités économiques. Cette coexistence paradoxale de la libéralisation et de la re-régulation a donné lieu à la thèse de G. Majone sur la « montée de l'État régulateur en Europe »…
The Europeanization of regional policies
The rise and integration of the regional level in the European Union (EU) multi-level system threatens to overload policy-making owing to a rising number of actors, levels and different institutional settings. Based on comparative empirical research on different types of region (less developed regions vs. city-regions) in both France and Germany, it is argued that adjustments of both intergovernmental and regional structures lead to the developme…
Abschied vom Unitarismus?
Abschied vom Unitarismus?
French Center‐Periphery Relations and Science Park Development
This article focuses on new patterns of territorial governance in the aftermath of the 1982 decentralization reforms in France. The traditional “cross regulation” model developed by the Crozier school is wrong to assume culturally grounded stalemate and to suggest that local political power is nothing more than the informal access of local elites to national policymaking. Analyzing the policy of technopoles or science park development, both natio…
Beyond delegation
This article investigates the allocation of regulatory authority in the EU. By introducing the concept of a 'regulatory regime', it criticizes not only earlier accounts of the EU 'regulatory state', but also current delegation approaches. As a starting point, it identifies a dilemma for the EU regulatory policy. Despite the rising need for uniform EU-level rules in the internal market, the bulk of formal powers and the institutional focus of regu…
Escaping the International Governance Dilemma? Incorporated Transgovernmental Networks in the European Union
This article investigates the role of transgovernmental networks of national regulators in addressing collective action problems endemic to international cooperation. In contrast to recent work on transgovernmental actors, which emphasizes such networks as alternatives to more traditional international institutions, we examine the synergistic interaction between the two. Building on the broader premise that patterns of “dual delegation” above and…
The Europeanization of regional policies
The rise and integration of the regional level in the European Union (EU) multi-level system threatens to overload policy-making owing to a rising number of actors, levels and different institutional settings. Based on comparative empirical research on different types of region (less developed regions vs. city-regions) in both France and Germany, it is argued that adjustments of both intergovernmental and regional structures lead to the developme…
Transnational business governance interactions
This special issue demonstrates the importance ofinteractionsin transnational business governance. The number of schemes applying non‐state authority to govern business conduct across borders has vastly expanded in numerous issue areas. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one another and with state‐based regimes. The key challenge is to understand the implications of these interactions for regulatory capacity and per…
New Governance in the European Union
New modes of governance based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in the European Union (EU). Can these new modes of governance offer a credible solution to the current challenges faced by EU policy‐making? In this article, we assess the potential of new governance in the light of the theory of democratic experimentalism. This theoretical perspective suggests, first, that co‐ordination by vo…
Grounding transnational business governance
Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public‐private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that integrate and expand this literature. First, in juxtaposition to functionalist accounts, we foreground the fundamentally political and often contentious character of these interactions. As private transnational governance schemes and standards “hit the ground,” private‐publ…
The Making of the European Energy Market
This case study asks whether delegated, sectoral governance by private actors and arm’s-length agencies enhances policy efficacy or does sectoral governance require a shadow of hierarchy cast by government actors to deliver desired policy results? EU energy market liberalisation shows that sectoral governance successfully mobilises regulatory expertise, capacity and legitimacy and delivers workable norms and rules for market transactions in a com…
Why do junctures become critical? Political discourse, agency, and joint belief shifts in comparative perspective
Why do junctures become critical in some cases but not in others? Building on the critical juncture framework and perspectives on the formation and diffusion of beliefs, we develop a theoretically parsimonious and empirically traceable account of divergence in institutional outcomes. By illuminating the role of agency and joint belief shifts we further open the “black box” of critical junctures. In particular, we develop the argument that the rol…
Institutional change and continuity in German infrastructure management
Following the example of telecommunications, German electricity markets were completely liberalised in April 1998. Do these developments signal the erosion of the traditional model of infrastructure management and, thus, of one pillar of the German political economy? The article addresses the issue of change or continuity from a neo‐institutionalist perspective, using electricity reform as a case study. After mapping out the pre‐reform system and…
Private authority in tackling cross-border issues. The hidden path of integrating European energy markets
We investigate private authority in European Union (EU) energy governance in order to address two research questions: First, how has authority been conferred on, and acquired by private actors? Second, to what extent has this lateral shift of authority been contested and on which grounds? The paper links the literatures on regulatory governance and private authority. This allows us to shed light on an issue that tends to be neglected in the discu…
Mechanisms of Conflict Management in Eu Regulatory Policy
In this conceptual article we explore mechanisms of conflict management in European Union (EU) regulatory policy-making. We argue that the stark dichotomization between logic of consequence and logic of appropriateness has led political scientists to neglect conflict management strategies that work at the edges of aggregation and transformation. While we can still associate these neglected strategies with either aggregation or transformation, it …
French Center‐Periphery Relations and Science Park Development
This article focuses on new patterns of territorial governance in the aftermath of the 1982 decentralization reforms in France. The traditional “cross regulation” model developed by the Crozier school is wrong to assume culturally grounded stalemate and to suggest that local political power is nothing more than the informal access of local elites to national policymaking. Analyzing the policy of technopoles or science park development, both natio…
French Center‐Periphery Relations and Science Park Development
This article focuses on new patterns of territorial governance in the aftermath of the 1982 decentralization reforms in France. The traditional “cross regulation” model developed by the Crozier school is wrong to assume culturally grounded stalemate and to suggest that local political power is nothing more than the informal access of local elites to national policymaking. Analyzing the policy of technopoles or science park development, both natio…
Abschied vom Unitarismus?
Abschied vom Unitarismus?
L'État régulateur en Europe
Le mouvement général vers la privatisation des entreprises publiques et la libéralisation des marchés monopolisés dans les économies européennes ne s'est pas traduit par un retrait pur et simple de l'État. Les gouvernements ont au contraire fortement « re-régulé » les activités économiques. Cette coexistence paradoxale de la libéralisation et de la re-régulation a donné lieu à la thèse de G. Majone sur la « montée de l'État régulateur en Europe »…
The Europeanization of regional policies
The rise and integration of the regional level in the European Union (EU) multi-level system threatens to overload policy-making owing to a rising number of actors, levels and different institutional settings. Based on comparative empirical research on different types of region (less developed regions vs. city-regions) in both France and Germany, it is argued that adjustments of both intergovernmental and regional structures lead to the developme…
Institutional change and continuity in German infrastructure management
Following the example of telecommunications, German electricity markets were completely liberalised in April 1998. Do these developments signal the erosion of the traditional model of infrastructure management and, thus, of one pillar of the German political economy? The article addresses the issue of change or continuity from a neo‐institutionalist perspective, using electricity reform as a case study. After mapping out the pre‐reform system and…
New Governance in the European Union
New modes of governance based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in the European Union (EU). Can these new modes of governance offer a credible solution to the current challenges faced by EU policy‐making? In this article, we assess the potential of new governance in the light of the theory of democratic experimentalism. This theoretical perspective suggests, first, that co‐ordination by vo…
Beyond delegation
This article investigates the allocation of regulatory authority in the EU. By introducing the concept of a 'regulatory regime', it criticizes not only earlier accounts of the EU 'regulatory state', but also current delegation approaches. As a starting point, it identifies a dilemma for the EU regulatory policy. Despite the rising need for uniform EU-level rules in the internal market, the bulk of formal powers and the institutional focus of regu…
The Making of the European Energy Market
This case study asks whether delegated, sectoral governance by private actors and arm’s-length agencies enhances policy efficacy or does sectoral governance require a shadow of hierarchy cast by government actors to deliver desired policy results? EU energy market liberalisation shows that sectoral governance successfully mobilises regulatory expertise, capacity and legitimacy and delivers workable norms and rules for market transactions in a com…
Escaping the International Governance Dilemma? Incorporated Transgovernmental Networks in the European Union
This article investigates the role of transgovernmental networks of national regulators in addressing collective action problems endemic to international cooperation. In contrast to recent work on transgovernmental actors, which emphasizes such networks as alternatives to more traditional international institutions, we examine the synergistic interaction between the two. Building on the broader premise that patterns of “dual delegation” above and…
Mechanisms of Conflict Management in Eu Regulatory Policy
In this conceptual article we explore mechanisms of conflict management in European Union (EU) regulatory policy-making. We argue that the stark dichotomization between logic of consequence and logic of appropriateness has led political scientists to neglect conflict management strategies that work at the edges of aggregation and transformation. While we can still associate these neglected strategies with either aggregation or transformation, it …
Abschied Vom Unitarismus?
Transnational business governance interactions
This special issue demonstrates the importance ofinteractionsin transnational business governance. The number of schemes applying non‐state authority to govern business conduct across borders has vastly expanded in numerous issue areas. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one another and with state‐based regimes. The key challenge is to understand the implications of these interactions for regulatory capacity and per…
Complex Democracy
Private authority in tackling cross-border issues. The hidden path of integrating European energy markets
We investigate private authority in European Union (EU) energy governance in order to address two research questions: First, how has authority been conferred on, and acquired by private actors? Second, to what extent has this lateral shift of authority been contested and on which grounds? The paper links the literatures on regulatory governance and private authority. This allows us to shed light on an issue that tends to be neglected in the discu…
Grounding transnational business governance
Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public‐private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that integrate and expand this literature. First, in juxtaposition to functionalist accounts, we foreground the fundamentally political and often contentious character of these interactions. As private transnational governance schemes and standards “hit the ground,” private‐publ…
Why do junctures become critical? Political discourse, agency, and joint belief shifts in comparative perspective
Why do junctures become critical in some cases but not in others? Building on the critical juncture framework and perspectives on the formation and diffusion of beliefs, we develop a theoretically parsimonious and empirically traceable account of divergence in institutional outcomes. By illuminating the role of agency and joint belief shifts we further open the “black box” of critical junctures. In particular, we develop the argument that the rol…
Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by incorporating nuanced forms of business power and multilevel governance settings. We propose the three‐dimens…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Corporate governance (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (9 works) · Business (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Economic system (6 works)