Michelle Cini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3911438 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michelle Cini |
| NOMBRES | Michelle |
| APELLIDO | Cini |
| FIRMA | CINI M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2602-8397 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Ideology and policy design after Brexit
Organizational responses to scandals
How public organizations respond to scandals is important as it affects their reputation and legitimacy. Yet very little research has been conducted on this topic. Drawing on insights from the literature on corporate reputation management, this article questions how effectively the European Commission has responded to recent scandals. It does this by creating an original analytical framework composed of five indicators: speed of response; opennes…
Ruin and Renewal
[No abstract]
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition
In the literature on the role of agency in the policy process, relatively little attention has been devoted to how agents define policy problems. This article helps to address this gap by asking when and how policy entrepreneurs are successful in defining problems. The article rests on a framework that shows how policy entrepreneurs holding specific ideas and given a propitious socioeconomic context are able to define problems, translate those pr…
Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime
Although the EU competition regime is well-established and highly effective, EU policy actors may still need to rethink their tried and tested approach to competition regulation. This is what happened in the context of the European Commission’s planned regulation of online platforms, embodied (in part) within the Digital Markets Act. This article reviews the interplay of the EU’s competition regime with its relatively new Digital Single Market st…
Institutional change in the European Parliament
Research on legislative ethics has shown how scandals often trigger ethics reform; yet, the content of the reform often differs from that of the scandal. Why is this the case? And if scandals don't explain legislative ethics reform outcomes, then what does? If not this kind of external shock, then what factor(s) shape legislative reform outcomes? These questions provide the point of departure for a case study of the European Parliament's 2011 eth…
Policy leadership in the European Commission
Political leadership in the European Commission tends to be associated with high politics and the intervention therein of the Commission President. This contribution takes a different approach by viewing policy leadership by the Commission as a form of political leadership. When the Commission finds it difficult to perform a broader political agenda-setting role, it may still be able to set and deliver new policy initiatives. The contribution con…
Good Governance and Institutional Change
The European Union institutions have always taken an interest in their own internal governance. In the 1990s, this interest began to be characterised by a greater reflexivity, increasingly allied to the concept of ‘good governance’. One example of this was in the field of public ethics where the European Commission came to recognise the importance of establishing structures and policies to govern the conduct of public servants (whether MEPs, Comm…
Institutional Change and Ethics Management in the EU's College of Commissioners
Research Highlights and Abstract This article makes the following contribution: It identifies a gap in theoretical work on gradual institutional change by highlighting the importance of ‘reluctant agency’ that is, agents who do not oppose change outright, but are reluctant to agree to anything more than minimal reforms. It demonstrates the importance of the interplay of internal and external factors in explanations of gradual institutional change…
EU Decision-Making on Inter-Institutional Agreements
The introduction of a provision in the Lisbon Treaty allowing European Union institutions to forge binding inter-institutional agreements (IIAs) draws attention to the limited research that exists on these instruments of EU governance. This article contributes to the development of this literature by presenting empirical evidence on two cases of decision-making on IIAs: on lobby regulation; and on the regulation of the conduct of EU public servan…
JCMS Fiftieth Anniversary
In March 2012, the Journal of Common Market Studies is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Much has been achieved since that first issue. The journal started off focusing on the Common Market. In 1962 the European Community (EC) had been under way for a few years and the United Kingdom was not yet a member. The Community of Six was moving towards a Customs Union and joint policies were being developed with agriculture being the most salient are…
Éthique et réforme administrative de la Commission européenne
Cet article examine l’approche suivie par la Commission en matière de règles de conduite durant la réforme Kinnock des années 2000-2004. Il s’interroge sur le point de savoir si les fonctionnaires et les commissaires ont été soumis à des règles éthiques différentes. L’hypothèse de travail, selon laquelle les sensibilités politiques concernant la régulation des acteurs politiques pourrait signifier que les représentants politiques seraient soumis …
European Union politics
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
European Commission reform and the origins of the European Transparency Initiative
This article explores the conditions under which ‘continuing administrative reform’ (Peters 2001 Peters, B. G. 2001. From change to change: patterns of continuing administrative reform in Europe. Public Organization Review, 1(1): 41–54. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) occurs. ‘Continuing administrative reform’ conceptualizes administrative reform as a process, rather than as an event, which accounts for why major administrative reform is often fol…
The ‘State of the Art’ in EU Studies
This article explores the disciplinary (political) and interdisciplinary characteristics of the field of EU studies from a UK perspective. It makes the claim that, although EU studies has been dominated by political/IR approaches, it has not been well integrated into the discipline of politics. However, one cannot assume that this is because EU studies is an interdisciplinary research area. Retaining, at least in the UK, much of its original ‘are…
The Reform of the European Commission
This article examines how the Commission has approached the subject of organisational ethics as part of its post-1999 administrative reform. It begins by explaining the relationship between the Commission resignation and the reform that followed. It then reviews some of the relevant ethics literature, identifying a useful conceptual framework on reform and ethics. The third section introduces the reform proper, arguing that it is loosely in line …
Culture, Institutions and Campaign Effects
This survey examines the background to and the campaign preceding Malta's EU accession referendum. The result of the referendum, which was held on 8 March 2003, and which was the first of the EU accession referendums of 2003, was a 53.65% vote in support of membership, on a turnout of close to 91%. Explaining both the relatively low support for EU accession and the high turnout on referendum day involves weighing up the relative impact of distinc…
Explaining Preferences in a Multinational Organization
Liesbet Hooghe's study of the preferences of top European Union (EU) officials makes an important contribution to the literature on the European Commission in the field of EU studies. Yet, The European Commission and the Integration of Europe purports to do much more than that. As Hooghe herself ambitiously claims, the book seeks to contribute to the theoretical literature in political science on preference formation. This ambition is very much i…
Malta Votes Twice for Europe
Following successful accession negotiations, the Maltese people were asked to vote - on two separate occasions - on whether Malta should become a member of the European Union. With Malta's two main political parties split down the middle on the issue of EU membership, the result of the referendum of 8 March 2003 - 53.65 per cent in favour of accession - did not ensure that Malta would accede to the EU on 1 May 2004. Instead it was the general ele…
The European Merger Regime
Even though the European Union's merger regime has been warmly received, three distinct critiques of European policy in this field are identified. In acknowledging these critiques, this article reviews EU merger policy and suggests ways in which it might be reformed in the future. However, in order to understand the particular form that the policy now takes, emphasis must be placed on the context within which the European model of merger control …
The European Commission
2002). The European Commission: An unelected legislator? The Journal of Legislative Studies: Vol. 8, The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators, pp. 14-26
A Divided Nation
Since the early 1970s, Malta has possessed one of the purest two-party systems in the developed world. Malta's party system influences and is influenced by the intense political polarization of Maltese society, but it has also been shaped by other factors. This article explores these influences, by reviewing the party political, institutional and socio-cultural framework that characterizes Maltese politics. In so doing, it addresses the question …
File on Malta
The soft law approach
This article draws attention to the Commission's use of soft law within the EU state aid regime and discusses how the application of informal policy instruments by the Commission has evolved since the early 1990s. It argues that developments over the past decade have led to a 'hardening' of the regulatory approach applied within the state aid regime, an evolution which seems to run against a more general EU trend towards soft law and the introduc…
The soft law approach
This article draws attention to the Commission's use of soft law within the EU state aid regime and discusses how the application of informal policy instruments by the Commission has evolved since the early 1990s. It argues that developments over the past decade have led to a 'hardening' of the regulatory approach applied within the state aid regime, an evolution which seems to run against a more general EU trend towards soft law and the introduc…
European Commission reform and the origins of the European Transparency Initiative
This article explores the conditions under which ‘continuing administrative reform’ (Peters 2001 Peters, B. G. 2001. From change to change: patterns of continuing administrative reform in Europe. Public Organization Review, 1(1): 41–54. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) occurs. ‘Continuing administrative reform’ conceptualizes administrative reform as a process, rather than as an event, which accounts for why major administrative reform is often fol…
A Divided Nation
Since the early 1970s, Malta has possessed one of the purest two-party systems in the developed world. Malta's party system influences and is influenced by the intense political polarization of Maltese society, but it has also been shaped by other factors. This article explores these influences, by reviewing the party political, institutional and socio-cultural framework that characterizes Maltese politics. In so doing, it addresses the question …
Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime
Although the EU competition regime is well-established and highly effective, EU policy actors may still need to rethink their tried and tested approach to competition regulation. This is what happened in the context of the European Commission’s planned regulation of online platforms, embodied (in part) within the Digital Markets Act. This article reviews the interplay of the EU’s competition regime with its relatively new Digital Single Market st…
Discretion and Politicization in EU Competition Policy
In a world where goods and services (but also people, capital and ideas) are increasingly ignoring national borders, competition policy has emerged as a highly salient issue at the heart of international trade discussions. Aspects of competition policy, from cartels and monopolies to state aids and the liberalization of the utilities, have become a regular feature in the pages of the financial and legal press and have become identified as a centr…
EU Decision-Making on Inter-Institutional Agreements
The introduction of a provision in the Lisbon Treaty allowing European Union institutions to forge binding inter-institutional agreements (IIAs) draws attention to the limited research that exists on these instruments of EU governance. This article contributes to the development of this literature by presenting empirical evidence on two cases of decision-making on IIAs: on lobby regulation; and on the regulation of the conduct of EU public servan…
The ‘State of the Art’ in EU Studies
This article explores the disciplinary (political) and interdisciplinary characteristics of the field of EU studies from a UK perspective. It makes the claim that, although EU studies has been dominated by political/IR approaches, it has not been well integrated into the discipline of politics. However, one cannot assume that this is because EU studies is an interdisciplinary research area. Retaining, at least in the UK, much of its original ‘are…
Malta Votes Twice for Europe
Following successful accession negotiations, the Maltese people were asked to vote - on two separate occasions - on whether Malta should become a member of the European Union. With Malta's two main political parties split down the middle on the issue of EU membership, the result of the referendum of 8 March 2003 - 53.65 per cent in favour of accession - did not ensure that Malta would accede to the EU on 1 May 2004. Instead it was the general ele…
Éthique et réforme administrative de la Commission européenne
Cet article examine l’approche suivie par la Commission en matière de règles de conduite durant la réforme Kinnock des années 2000-2004. Il s’interroge sur le point de savoir si les fonctionnaires et les commissaires ont été soumis à des règles éthiques différentes. L’hypothèse de travail, selon laquelle les sensibilités politiques concernant la régulation des acteurs politiques pourrait signifier que les représentants politiques seraient soumis …
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition
In the literature on the role of agency in the policy process, relatively little attention has been devoted to how agents define policy problems. This article helps to address this gap by asking when and how policy entrepreneurs are successful in defining problems. The article rests on a framework that shows how policy entrepreneurs holding specific ideas and given a propitious socioeconomic context are able to define problems, translate those pr…
The Reform of the European Commission
This article examines how the Commission has approached the subject of organisational ethics as part of its post-1999 administrative reform. It begins by explaining the relationship between the Commission resignation and the reform that followed. It then reviews some of the relevant ethics literature, identifying a useful conceptual framework on reform and ethics. The third section introduces the reform proper, arguing that it is loosely in line …
Institutional change in the European Parliament
Research on legislative ethics has shown how scandals often trigger ethics reform; yet, the content of the reform often differs from that of the scandal. Why is this the case? And if scandals don't explain legislative ethics reform outcomes, then what does? If not this kind of external shock, then what factor(s) shape legislative reform outcomes? These questions provide the point of departure for a case study of the European Parliament's 2011 eth…
Policy leadership in the European Commission
Political leadership in the European Commission tends to be associated with high politics and the intervention therein of the Commission President. This contribution takes a different approach by viewing policy leadership by the Commission as a form of political leadership. When the Commission finds it difficult to perform a broader political agenda-setting role, it may still be able to set and deliver new policy initiatives. The contribution con…
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
Culture, Institutions and Campaign Effects
This survey examines the background to and the campaign preceding Malta's EU accession referendum. The result of the referendum, which was held on 8 March 2003, and which was the first of the EU accession referendums of 2003, was a 53.65% vote in support of membership, on a turnout of close to 91%. Explaining both the relatively low support for EU accession and the high turnout on referendum day involves weighing up the relative impact of distinc…
Institutional Change and Ethics Management in the EU's College of Commissioners
Research Highlights and Abstract This article makes the following contribution: It identifies a gap in theoretical work on gradual institutional change by highlighting the importance of ‘reluctant agency’ that is, agents who do not oppose change outright, but are reluctant to agree to anything more than minimal reforms. It demonstrates the importance of the interplay of internal and external factors in explanations of gradual institutional change…
The European Merger Regime
Even though the European Union's merger regime has been warmly received, three distinct critiques of European policy in this field are identified. In acknowledging these critiques, this article reviews EU merger policy and suggests ways in which it might be reformed in the future. However, in order to understand the particular form that the policy now takes, emphasis must be placed on the context within which the European model of merger control …
The Europeanization of Malta
This article reviews Malta's engagement in a process of Europeanization. 'Europeanization' is defined in two ways: as the process of adaptation to European rules and norms; and as a redefinition or restatement of national identity. In the case of the first definition, we find evidence that Malta is indeed Europeanizing. However, in the second sense, the coexistence of two conflicting versions' of national identity contributes to the party politic…
Good Governance and Institutional Change
The European Union institutions have always taken an interest in their own internal governance. In the 1990s, this interest began to be characterised by a greater reflexivity, increasingly allied to the concept of ‘good governance’. One example of this was in the field of public ethics where the European Commission came to recognise the importance of establishing structures and policies to govern the conduct of public servants (whether MEPs, Comm…
The European Commission
2002). The European Commission: An unelected legislator? The Journal of Legislative Studies: Vol. 8, The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators, pp. 14-26
La Commission européenne
Comme institution souvent mal comprise et relativement peu analysée, la Commission européenne a néanmoins provoqué une littérature substantielle, notamment sur l'administration et l'exécution des politiques publiques au niveau européen. Il existe cependant un hiatus entre les recherches sur les politiques et les recherches sur l'institution elle-même. L'importance des facteurs institutionnels et intra-institutionnels n'est pas toujours prise en c…
The Renewal of the French Ruling Elite
La Commission européenne
Comme institution souvent mal comprise et relativement peu analysée, la Commission européenne a néanmoins provoqué une littérature substantielle, notamment sur l'administration et l'exécution des politiques publiques au niveau européen. Il existe cependant un hiatus entre les recherches sur les politiques et les recherches sur l'institution elle-même. L'importance des facteurs institutionnels et intra-institutionnels n'est pas toujours prise en c…
Discretion and Politicization in EU Competition Policy
In a world where goods and services (but also people, capital and ideas) are increasingly ignoring national borders, competition policy has emerged as a highly salient issue at the heart of international trade discussions. Aspects of competition policy, from cartels and monopolies to state aids and the liberalization of the utilities, have become a regular feature in the pages of the financial and legal press and have become identified as a centr…
Research Forum
The Europeanization of Malta
This article reviews Malta's engagement in a process of Europeanization. 'Europeanization' is defined in two ways: as the process of adaptation to European rules and norms; and as a redefinition or restatement of national identity. In the case of the first definition, we find evidence that Malta is indeed Europeanizing. However, in the second sense, the coexistence of two conflicting versions' of national identity contributes to the party politic…
The soft law approach
This article draws attention to the Commission's use of soft law within the EU state aid regime and discusses how the application of informal policy instruments by the Commission has evolved since the early 1990s. It argues that developments over the past decade have led to a 'hardening' of the regulatory approach applied within the state aid regime, an evolution which seems to run against a more general EU trend towards soft law and the introduc…
The European Merger Regime
Even though the European Union's merger regime has been warmly received, three distinct critiques of European policy in this field are identified. In acknowledging these critiques, this article reviews EU merger policy and suggests ways in which it might be reformed in the future. However, in order to understand the particular form that the policy now takes, emphasis must be placed on the context within which the European model of merger control …
The European Commission
2002). The European Commission: An unelected legislator? The Journal of Legislative Studies: Vol. 8, The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators, pp. 14-26
A Divided Nation
Since the early 1970s, Malta has possessed one of the purest two-party systems in the developed world. Malta's party system influences and is influenced by the intense political polarization of Maltese society, but it has also been shaped by other factors. This article explores these influences, by reviewing the party political, institutional and socio-cultural framework that characterizes Maltese politics. In so doing, it addresses the question …
File on Malta
Explaining Preferences in a Multinational Organization
Liesbet Hooghe's study of the preferences of top European Union (EU) officials makes an important contribution to the literature on the European Commission in the field of EU studies. Yet, The European Commission and the Integration of Europe purports to do much more than that. As Hooghe herself ambitiously claims, the book seeks to contribute to the theoretical literature in political science on preference formation. This ambition is very much i…
Malta Votes Twice for Europe
Following successful accession negotiations, the Maltese people were asked to vote - on two separate occasions - on whether Malta should become a member of the European Union. With Malta's two main political parties split down the middle on the issue of EU membership, the result of the referendum of 8 March 2003 - 53.65 per cent in favour of accession - did not ensure that Malta would accede to the EU on 1 May 2004. Instead it was the general ele…
The Reform of the European Commission
This article examines how the Commission has approached the subject of organisational ethics as part of its post-1999 administrative reform. It begins by explaining the relationship between the Commission resignation and the reform that followed. It then reviews some of the relevant ethics literature, identifying a useful conceptual framework on reform and ethics. The third section introduces the reform proper, arguing that it is loosely in line …
Culture, Institutions and Campaign Effects
This survey examines the background to and the campaign preceding Malta's EU accession referendum. The result of the referendum, which was held on 8 March 2003, and which was the first of the EU accession referendums of 2003, was a 53.65% vote in support of membership, on a turnout of close to 91%. Explaining both the relatively low support for EU accession and the high turnout on referendum day involves weighing up the relative impact of distinc…
The ‘State of the Art’ in EU Studies
This article explores the disciplinary (political) and interdisciplinary characteristics of the field of EU studies from a UK perspective. It makes the claim that, although EU studies has been dominated by political/IR approaches, it has not been well integrated into the discipline of politics. However, one cannot assume that this is because EU studies is an interdisciplinary research area. Retaining, at least in the UK, much of its original ‘are…
European Commission reform and the origins of the European Transparency Initiative
This article explores the conditions under which ‘continuing administrative reform’ (Peters 2001 Peters, B. G. 2001. From change to change: patterns of continuing administrative reform in Europe. Public Organization Review, 1(1): 41–54. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) occurs. ‘Continuing administrative reform’ conceptualizes administrative reform as a process, rather than as an event, which accounts for why major administrative reform is often fol…
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
Éthique et réforme administrative de la Commission européenne
Cet article examine l’approche suivie par la Commission en matière de règles de conduite durant la réforme Kinnock des années 2000-2004. Il s’interroge sur le point de savoir si les fonctionnaires et les commissaires ont été soumis à des règles éthiques différentes. L’hypothèse de travail, selon laquelle les sensibilités politiques concernant la régulation des acteurs politiques pourrait signifier que les représentants politiques seraient soumis …
European Union politics
JCMS Fiftieth Anniversary
In March 2012, the Journal of Common Market Studies is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Much has been achieved since that first issue. The journal started off focusing on the Common Market. In 1962 the European Community (EC) had been under way for a few years and the United Kingdom was not yet a member. The Community of Six was moving towards a Customs Union and joint policies were being developed with agriculture being the most salient are…
Institutional Change and Ethics Management in the EU's College of Commissioners
Research Highlights and Abstract This article makes the following contribution: It identifies a gap in theoretical work on gradual institutional change by highlighting the importance of ‘reluctant agency’ that is, agents who do not oppose change outright, but are reluctant to agree to anything more than minimal reforms. It demonstrates the importance of the interplay of internal and external factors in explanations of gradual institutional change…
EU Decision-Making on Inter-Institutional Agreements
The introduction of a provision in the Lisbon Treaty allowing European Union institutions to forge binding inter-institutional agreements (IIAs) draws attention to the limited research that exists on these instruments of EU governance. This article contributes to the development of this literature by presenting empirical evidence on two cases of decision-making on IIAs: on lobby regulation; and on the regulation of the conduct of EU public servan…
Good Governance and Institutional Change
The European Union institutions have always taken an interest in their own internal governance. In the 1990s, this interest began to be characterised by a greater reflexivity, increasingly allied to the concept of ‘good governance’. One example of this was in the field of public ethics where the European Commission came to recognise the importance of establishing structures and policies to govern the conduct of public servants (whether MEPs, Comm…
Policy leadership in the European Commission
Political leadership in the European Commission tends to be associated with high politics and the intervention therein of the Commission President. This contribution takes a different approach by viewing policy leadership by the Commission as a form of political leadership. When the Commission finds it difficult to perform a broader political agenda-setting role, it may still be able to set and deliver new policy initiatives. The contribution con…
Institutional change in the European Parliament
Research on legislative ethics has shown how scandals often trigger ethics reform; yet, the content of the reform often differs from that of the scandal. Why is this the case? And if scandals don't explain legislative ethics reform outcomes, then what does? If not this kind of external shock, then what factor(s) shape legislative reform outcomes? These questions provide the point of departure for a case study of the European Parliament's 2011 eth…
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