Ton Notermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 313500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ton Notermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ton |
| FAMILY NAME | Notermans |
| SIGNATURE | NOTERMANS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0743-3234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
An Unassailable Fortress? Neo-Liberalism in Estonia
Though its economy is tiny, Estonia has occupied a central role in the European debate about the merits of neo-liberalism. Ever since its transition to a market economy the country has pursued consistently neo-liberal strategies. Advocates of neo-liberalism argue that the country has fared very well in doing so and should serve as a model for other countries, especially those in crisis ridden Southern Europe. Critics instead argue that overall ec…
European social models from crisis to crisis
European social models from crisis to crisis: employment and inequality in the era of monetary integration." Global Affairs, 1(4-5), pp. 468–469
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Social Democracy and Monetary Union
Since the late 1960s social democrats have become the dominant political force in the European Union. In fact, Social Democrats govern in no less than 11 of the 15 member states. Simultaneously, the EU has embarked on its most far-reaching project yet, namely Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); a project that was designed mainly by non-Social Democratic governments. This volume provides the first in-depth and comparative analysis of the views and …
Social Democracy and Monetary Union
The German Social Democrats and Monetary Union
The first one hundred years of socialism
2001). The first one hundred years of socialism. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 75-82
Money, Markets, and the State
Money, Markets, and the State, first published in 2000, provides in-depth explanations behind the various successes and failures of the economic policies of social democratic governments in five Western European countries: Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Dr Notermans examines these economic systems from the inflation of the early twenties, through the Great Depression of the thirties and then continues his analysis up …
Social Democracy in Open Economies
The Abdication from National Policy Autonomy
Political‐economic aspects of public employment
An examination of public employment and expenditure data for 17 OECD countries for the period 1963–1983 reveals decelerating growth in public employment after 1970, whereas expenditure growth rates have been accelerating. Two contrary tendencies in public sector employment since the early 1970s are apparent: a general decline in goods and market services, and a significant increase in communal and social services. Comparative empirical analysis, …
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
The Abdication from National Policy Autonomy
Political‐economic aspects of public employment
An examination of public employment and expenditure data for 17 OECD countries for the period 1963–1983 reveals decelerating growth in public employment after 1970, whereas expenditure growth rates have been accelerating. Two contrary tendencies in public sector employment since the early 1970s are apparent: a general decline in goods and market services, and a significant increase in communal and social services. Comparative empirical analysis, …
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
Social Democracy in Open Economies
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Political‐economic aspects of public employment
An examination of public employment and expenditure data for 17 OECD countries for the period 1963–1983 reveals decelerating growth in public employment after 1970, whereas expenditure growth rates have been accelerating. Two contrary tendencies in public sector employment since the early 1970s are apparent: a general decline in goods and market services, and a significant increase in communal and social services. Comparative empirical analysis, …
The Abdication from National Policy Autonomy
Social Democracy in Open Economies
Money, Markets, and the State
Money, Markets, and the State, first published in 2000, provides in-depth explanations behind the various successes and failures of the economic policies of social democratic governments in five Western European countries: Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Dr Notermans examines these economic systems from the inflation of the early twenties, through the Great Depression of the thirties and then continues his analysis up …
Social Democracy and Monetary Union
Since the late 1960s social democrats have become the dominant political force in the European Union. In fact, Social Democrats govern in no less than 11 of the 15 member states. Simultaneously, the EU has embarked on its most far-reaching project yet, namely Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); a project that was designed mainly by non-Social Democratic governments. This volume provides the first in-depth and comparative analysis of the views and …
Social Democracy and Monetary Union
The German Social Democrats and Monetary Union
The first one hundred years of socialism
2001). The first one hundred years of socialism. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 75-82
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
An Unassailable Fortress? Neo-Liberalism in Estonia
Though its economy is tiny, Estonia has occupied a central role in the European debate about the merits of neo-liberalism. Ever since its transition to a market economy the country has pursued consistently neo-liberal strategies. Advocates of neo-liberalism argue that the country has fared very well in doing so and should serve as a model for other countries, especially those in crisis ridden Southern Europe. Critics instead argue that overall ec…
European social models from crisis to crisis
European social models from crisis to crisis: employment and inequality in the era of monetary integration." Global Affairs, 1(4-5), pp. 468–469
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance
Political science (20 works) · Economics (19 works) · Law (14 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economic system (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)