Alexander Bürgin
Biographic Data
| ID | 794005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Bürgin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Bürgin |
| SIGNATURE | BÜRGIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | İzmir University of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1642-8429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Modernization of Environmental Reporting as a Tool to Improve the European Commission's Regulatory Monitoring Capacity
Recent reforms in the reporting and monitoring process, in particular enabled by advances in digital technology, have made three main contributions to the European Commission's capacity to monitor member states' compliance with EU environmental law. First, quicker access to data has been achieved by increased levels of publicly available electronic data, data processing by the European Environmental Agency, and data harvesting at EU level. Second…
Political steering in the European Commission: A comparison of the energy and health sectors
Upon taking office as President of the European Commission in 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker initiated a series of reforms to the internal workings of the EU executive. Existing research suggests that these have been successful in increasing political steering, creating a Commission which focuses on fewer fields, controls the policy activism of its officials and produces less legislative output. However, much of this research focuses on the Commission…
The party politics of learning from failure: The German Greens and the lessons drawn from the 2013 general election
Exploring the party political learning of the German Greens, a powerful agent of environmental policy in European politics, we identify the strategic and programmatic lessons learned from their failure in the 2013 general elections and explain the party politics that facilitated these lessons. We advance research on learning from failures by understanding failures not as objective facts but as constructed in political discourse. Tracing the main …
Introduction: Special issue on EU-induced policy change in Turkey’s environment and energy policy
In view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. Against this background, in this special issue, we explore the extent to which reforms in Turkey’s environment and energy policy are (still) influenced by the EU. This introduction briefly reviews the Turkey re…
Policy learning: An understudied mechanism of EU influence on Turkish domestic politics
This article argues that EU-induced learning processes in Turkish domestic politics deserve greater attention within the Turkey-related Europeanization literature, which, in view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union, tends to attribute a continued partial alignment with EU policies to either domestic, or to non-EU-related external factors. Two arguments are put forward. First, in domestically driven reform processes, the EU may…
The implications of the better regulation agenda for the European Parliament’s inter- and intra-institutional power relations
How do the European Commission’s and the European Parliament (EP) Secretariat’s better regulation agendas affect the EP’s intra- and inter-institutional relations? Based on document analysis and interviews with members of the EP and EU officials, this article presents four key findings. First, the increase in inter-institutional coordination has strengthened the EP president’s and the chairs’ influence in their respective party groups but contrib…
The impact of Juncker's reorganization of the European Commission on the internal policy‐making process: Evidence from the Energy Union project
Using illustrations from Energy Union‐related legislative initiatives, this article argues that organizational reforms have led to a more top‐down approach in the steering of the European Commission, allowing Commission President Juncker a more centralized internal leadership than his predecessor Barroso. Interviews with EU policy‐makers revealed two main findings. First, the new filter functions of the seven Vice‐Presidents and the Secretariat‐G…
Intra‐ and Inter‐Institutional Leadership of the European Commission President: An Assessment of Juncker's Organizational Reforms
By most accounts, the Commission President's potential for political leadership within the EU system has declined since the 1990s, due to the increasingly assertive role of the European Council, and a more autonomous European Parliament (EP). Furthermore, the incumbent's authority over the Commission is complicated by the Commission's internal fragmentation and specialization. Based on interviews with experienced policy‐makers from the Commission…
Turkey’s New Asylum Law: A Case of EU Influence
The European Union’s (EU) influence on Turkey’s domestic politics has been characterized as weak due to the lack of credible accession perspective. However, Turkey’s adoption of an asylum law in 2013, which meets almost all demands of the EU, points to the EU’s continuing influence in this policy area. The majority of the academic experts in our online survey considered the EU accession process as crucial factor for the adoption of the law. Our i…
The new intergovernmentalism: States and supranational actors in post-Maastricht era
The main argument of the editors of this book is that the post-Maastricht period is characterized by a novel form of EU governance, to which they have given the label new intergovernmentalism. A ke
Internal coordination and legitimation strategies: Assessing the influence of individual commissioners in the policy formulation process
While the Commission’s influence on Council decisions has attracted considerable scholarly attention, its internal dynamics are still not well known, in particular regarding the individual entrepreneurship of Commissioners. Aiming to contribute to the literature on the Commission’s inner workings, this article draws comparisons between the levels of influence that two Commissioners were able to exert in the course of two legislative drafting proc…
Europe’s long energy journey: Towards an energy union? By David Buchan and Malcolm Keay
Europe's long energy journey: towards an energy union? By David Buchan and Malcolm Keay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. 224pp. £25.00. ISBN 978 0 19875 330 8. The European Commission's ‘Framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy’, published on 25 February 2015, is mainly designed to achieve three related goals: first, a fundamental transformation of Europe's energy system into an integrate…
Why the EU Still Matters in Turkish Domestic Politics: Insights from Recent Reforms in Migration Policy
In view of Turkey's increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. However, based on interviews with officials from Turkey and the European Commission on recent reforms in migration policy, this article argues that two factors are responsible for continued EU influence on poli…
National binding renewable energy targets for 2020, but not for 2030 anymore: Why the European Commission developed from a supporter to a brakeman
While in 2007 the European Commission suggested a national binding target of 20 per cent for the renewable energy share of European Union (EU) energy consumption by 2020, its proposal of January 2014 for the follow-up period until 2030 is less ambitious: first, the suggested 27 per cent share of renewables is only slightly above the expected level of 24.4 per cent which would be achieved by the implementation of current policies; and second, the …
Strategic Learning, Limited Europeanization: How the Turkish National Police Used Twinning to Prepare Itself for the Planned New Border Agency
The fading credibility of Turkey's European Union (EU) membership perspective has undermined the conditionality strategy of the EU. However, outside of the formal setting of the accession talks, twinning projects are considered as a tool to keep Europeanization processes on track. Based on the principle of partnership, these projects aim to induce domestic change via social learning. However, this case study of a twinning project concerning the t…
Angelos Giannakopoulos, Europa-Türkei-Identität Der „ewige Kandidat“ und die EU seit der Zollunion
Article Angelos Giannakopoulos, Europa-Türkei-Identität Der „ewige Kandidat“ und die EU seit der Zollunion was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Educated in Germany, Working in Turkey: The Emigration Motivations of Persons of Turkish Origin
Concerns over a possible brain drain and a failed integration policy have been raised by the emigration of qualified persons of Turkish origin. However, there is little reliable data available regarding the profile and the motivations for this in the Germany-trained workforce. In order to explore the relative importance of different migration motivations, an online survey (n = 128) and interviews with selected respondents were conducted. The main…
Die lange Reise bis zur Reisefreiheit: Eine Analyse der Verhandlungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei über die Abschaffung der Visapflicht für Türken / The Long Road to the Freedom to Travel: The EU-Tu…
Article Die lange Reise bis zur Reisefreiheit: Eine Analyse der Verhandlungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei über die Abschaffung der Visapflicht für Türken / The Long Road to the Freedom to Travel: The EU-Turkish Negotiations on the Abolition of the Visa Requirement for Turkish Citizens was published on February 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 2)
Disappointment or New Strength: Exploring the Declining EU Support Among Turkish Students, Academics and Party Members
Is the decline of Turkish public support for the European Union (EU) membership better explained by a disappointment about the EU approach to Turkey or by the new self-confidence of the country? This question is relevant because frustration about the accession process could be overcome with more positive signals from the EU. However, if the second factor plays a significant role, this would be an indicator for an enduring alienation between Turks…
European Commission's agency meets Ankara's agenda: Why Turkey is ready for a readmission agreement
In January 2011, the European Commission and the Turkish government announced an agreement that obliges Turkey to take back illegal immigrants who have used Turkey as a transit country on their way to the European Union (EU). Thus, Turkey would fulfil a costly EU demand with no guarantee of the reward of EU membership. The key to understanding the new readiness of the AKP government for a readmission agreement after several years of unsuccessful …
Ongoing opposition in the West, new options in the East: Is Turkey's EU accession process reversible
Conditions for EU constitutionalization: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article probes the conditions conducive to the constitutionalization of the European Union: under what conditions have the powers of the European Parliament been extended and the institutionalization of human rights progressed? Based on the assumption that the constitutionalization of the EU is best understood as the outcome of strategic action in a community environment, we argue that progress in constitutionalization depends on the salienc…
National binding renewable energy targets for 2020, but not for 2030 anymore: Why the European Commission developed from a supporter to a brakeman
While in 2007 the European Commission suggested a national binding target of 20 per cent for the renewable energy share of European Union (EU) energy consumption by 2020, its proposal of January 2014 for the follow-up period until 2030 is less ambitious: first, the suggested 27 per cent share of renewables is only slightly above the expected level of 24.4 per cent which would be achieved by the implementation of current policies; and second, the …
Intra‐ and Inter‐Institutional Leadership of the European Commission President: An Assessment of Juncker's Organizational Reforms
By most accounts, the Commission President's potential for political leadership within the EU system has declined since the 1990s, due to the increasingly assertive role of the European Council, and a more autonomous European Parliament (EP). Furthermore, the incumbent's authority over the Commission is complicated by the Commission's internal fragmentation and specialization. Based on interviews with experienced policy‐makers from the Commission…
The impact of Juncker's reorganization of the European Commission on the internal policy‐making process: Evidence from the Energy Union project
Using illustrations from Energy Union‐related legislative initiatives, this article argues that organizational reforms have led to a more top‐down approach in the steering of the European Commission, allowing Commission President Juncker a more centralized internal leadership than his predecessor Barroso. Interviews with EU policy‐makers revealed two main findings. First, the new filter functions of the seven Vice‐Presidents and the Secretariat‐G…
Conditions for EU constitutionalization: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article probes the conditions conducive to the constitutionalization of the European Union: under what conditions have the powers of the European Parliament been extended and the institutionalization of human rights progressed? Based on the assumption that the constitutionalization of the EU is best understood as the outcome of strategic action in a community environment, we argue that progress in constitutionalization depends on the salienc…
Why the EU Still Matters in Turkish Domestic Politics: Insights from Recent Reforms in Migration Policy
In view of Turkey's increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. However, based on interviews with officials from Turkey and the European Commission on recent reforms in migration policy, this article argues that two factors are responsible for continued EU influence on poli…
European Commission's agency meets Ankara's agenda: Why Turkey is ready for a readmission agreement
In January 2011, the European Commission and the Turkish government announced an agreement that obliges Turkey to take back illegal immigrants who have used Turkey as a transit country on their way to the European Union (EU). Thus, Turkey would fulfil a costly EU demand with no guarantee of the reward of EU membership. The key to understanding the new readiness of the AKP government for a readmission agreement after several years of unsuccessful …
Internal coordination and legitimation strategies: Assessing the influence of individual commissioners in the policy formulation process
While the Commission’s influence on Council decisions has attracted considerable scholarly attention, its internal dynamics are still not well known, in particular regarding the individual entrepreneurship of Commissioners. Aiming to contribute to the literature on the Commission’s inner workings, this article draws comparisons between the levels of influence that two Commissioners were able to exert in the course of two legislative drafting proc…
Modernization of Environmental Reporting as a Tool to Improve the European Commission's Regulatory Monitoring Capacity
Recent reforms in the reporting and monitoring process, in particular enabled by advances in digital technology, have made three main contributions to the European Commission's capacity to monitor member states' compliance with EU environmental law. First, quicker access to data has been achieved by increased levels of publicly available electronic data, data processing by the European Environmental Agency, and data harvesting at EU level. Second…
Political steering in the European Commission: A comparison of the energy and health sectors
Upon taking office as President of the European Commission in 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker initiated a series of reforms to the internal workings of the EU executive. Existing research suggests that these have been successful in increasing political steering, creating a Commission which focuses on fewer fields, controls the policy activism of its officials and produces less legislative output. However, much of this research focuses on the Commission…
Strategic Learning, Limited Europeanization: How the Turkish National Police Used Twinning to Prepare Itself for the Planned New Border Agency
The fading credibility of Turkey's European Union (EU) membership perspective has undermined the conditionality strategy of the EU. However, outside of the formal setting of the accession talks, twinning projects are considered as a tool to keep Europeanization processes on track. Based on the principle of partnership, these projects aim to induce domestic change via social learning. However, this case study of a twinning project concerning the t…
Educated in Germany, Working in Turkey: The Emigration Motivations of Persons of Turkish Origin
Concerns over a possible brain drain and a failed integration policy have been raised by the emigration of qualified persons of Turkish origin. However, there is little reliable data available regarding the profile and the motivations for this in the Germany-trained workforce. In order to explore the relative importance of different migration motivations, an online survey (n = 128) and interviews with selected respondents were conducted. The main…
Disappointment or New Strength: Exploring the Declining EU Support Among Turkish Students, Academics and Party Members
Is the decline of Turkish public support for the European Union (EU) membership better explained by a disappointment about the EU approach to Turkey or by the new self-confidence of the country? This question is relevant because frustration about the accession process could be overcome with more positive signals from the EU. However, if the second factor plays a significant role, this would be an indicator for an enduring alienation between Turks…
The party politics of learning from failure: The German Greens and the lessons drawn from the 2013 general election
Exploring the party political learning of the German Greens, a powerful agent of environmental policy in European politics, we identify the strategic and programmatic lessons learned from their failure in the 2013 general elections and explain the party politics that facilitated these lessons. We advance research on learning from failures by understanding failures not as objective facts but as constructed in political discourse. Tracing the main …
Introduction: Special issue on EU-induced policy change in Turkey’s environment and energy policy
In view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. Against this background, in this special issue, we explore the extent to which reforms in Turkey’s environment and energy policy are (still) influenced by the EU. This introduction briefly reviews the Turkey re…
Policy learning: An understudied mechanism of EU influence on Turkish domestic politics
This article argues that EU-induced learning processes in Turkish domestic politics deserve greater attention within the Turkey-related Europeanization literature, which, in view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union, tends to attribute a continued partial alignment with EU policies to either domestic, or to non-EU-related external factors. Two arguments are put forward. First, in domestically driven reform processes, the EU may…
Conditions for EU constitutionalization: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article probes the conditions conducive to the constitutionalization of the European Union: under what conditions have the powers of the European Parliament been extended and the institutionalization of human rights progressed? Based on the assumption that the constitutionalization of the EU is best understood as the outcome of strategic action in a community environment, we argue that progress in constitutionalization depends on the salienc…
Ongoing opposition in the West, new options in the East: Is Turkey's EU accession process reversible
Disappointment or New Strength: Exploring the Declining EU Support Among Turkish Students, Academics and Party Members
Is the decline of Turkish public support for the European Union (EU) membership better explained by a disappointment about the EU approach to Turkey or by the new self-confidence of the country? This question is relevant because frustration about the accession process could be overcome with more positive signals from the EU. However, if the second factor plays a significant role, this would be an indicator for an enduring alienation between Turks…
European Commission's agency meets Ankara's agenda: Why Turkey is ready for a readmission agreement
In January 2011, the European Commission and the Turkish government announced an agreement that obliges Turkey to take back illegal immigrants who have used Turkey as a transit country on their way to the European Union (EU). Thus, Turkey would fulfil a costly EU demand with no guarantee of the reward of EU membership. The key to understanding the new readiness of the AKP government for a readmission agreement after several years of unsuccessful …
Angelos Giannakopoulos, Europa-Türkei-Identität Der „ewige Kandidat“ und die EU seit der Zollunion
Article Angelos Giannakopoulos, Europa-Türkei-Identität Der „ewige Kandidat“ und die EU seit der Zollunion was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Educated in Germany, Working in Turkey: The Emigration Motivations of Persons of Turkish Origin
Concerns over a possible brain drain and a failed integration policy have been raised by the emigration of qualified persons of Turkish origin. However, there is little reliable data available regarding the profile and the motivations for this in the Germany-trained workforce. In order to explore the relative importance of different migration motivations, an online survey (n = 128) and interviews with selected respondents were conducted. The main…
Die lange Reise bis zur Reisefreiheit: Eine Analyse der Verhandlungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei über die Abschaffung der Visapflicht für Türken / The Long Road to the Freedom to Travel: The EU-Tu…
Article Die lange Reise bis zur Reisefreiheit: Eine Analyse der Verhandlungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei über die Abschaffung der Visapflicht für Türken / The Long Road to the Freedom to Travel: The EU-Turkish Negotiations on the Abolition of the Visa Requirement for Turkish Citizens was published on February 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 2)
Strategic Learning, Limited Europeanization: How the Turkish National Police Used Twinning to Prepare Itself for the Planned New Border Agency
The fading credibility of Turkey's European Union (EU) membership perspective has undermined the conditionality strategy of the EU. However, outside of the formal setting of the accession talks, twinning projects are considered as a tool to keep Europeanization processes on track. Based on the principle of partnership, these projects aim to induce domestic change via social learning. However, this case study of a twinning project concerning the t…
National binding renewable energy targets for 2020, but not for 2030 anymore: Why the European Commission developed from a supporter to a brakeman
While in 2007 the European Commission suggested a national binding target of 20 per cent for the renewable energy share of European Union (EU) energy consumption by 2020, its proposal of January 2014 for the follow-up period until 2030 is less ambitious: first, the suggested 27 per cent share of renewables is only slightly above the expected level of 24.4 per cent which would be achieved by the implementation of current policies; and second, the …
The new intergovernmentalism: States and supranational actors in post-Maastricht era
The main argument of the editors of this book is that the post-Maastricht period is characterized by a novel form of EU governance, to which they have given the label new intergovernmentalism. A ke
Internal coordination and legitimation strategies: Assessing the influence of individual commissioners in the policy formulation process
While the Commission’s influence on Council decisions has attracted considerable scholarly attention, its internal dynamics are still not well known, in particular regarding the individual entrepreneurship of Commissioners. Aiming to contribute to the literature on the Commission’s inner workings, this article draws comparisons between the levels of influence that two Commissioners were able to exert in the course of two legislative drafting proc…
Europe’s long energy journey: Towards an energy union? By David Buchan and Malcolm Keay
Europe's long energy journey: towards an energy union? By David Buchan and Malcolm Keay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. 224pp. £25.00. ISBN 978 0 19875 330 8. The European Commission's ‘Framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy’, published on 25 February 2015, is mainly designed to achieve three related goals: first, a fundamental transformation of Europe's energy system into an integrate…
Why the EU Still Matters in Turkish Domestic Politics: Insights from Recent Reforms in Migration Policy
In view of Turkey's increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. However, based on interviews with officials from Turkey and the European Commission on recent reforms in migration policy, this article argues that two factors are responsible for continued EU influence on poli…
Turkey’s New Asylum Law: A Case of EU Influence
The European Union’s (EU) influence on Turkey’s domestic politics has been characterized as weak due to the lack of credible accession perspective. However, Turkey’s adoption of an asylum law in 2013, which meets almost all demands of the EU, points to the EU’s continuing influence in this policy area. The majority of the academic experts in our online survey considered the EU accession process as crucial factor for the adoption of the law. Our i…
The impact of Juncker's reorganization of the European Commission on the internal policy‐making process: Evidence from the Energy Union project
Using illustrations from Energy Union‐related legislative initiatives, this article argues that organizational reforms have led to a more top‐down approach in the steering of the European Commission, allowing Commission President Juncker a more centralized internal leadership than his predecessor Barroso. Interviews with EU policy‐makers revealed two main findings. First, the new filter functions of the seven Vice‐Presidents and the Secretariat‐G…
Intra‐ and Inter‐Institutional Leadership of the European Commission President: An Assessment of Juncker's Organizational Reforms
By most accounts, the Commission President's potential for political leadership within the EU system has declined since the 1990s, due to the increasingly assertive role of the European Council, and a more autonomous European Parliament (EP). Furthermore, the incumbent's authority over the Commission is complicated by the Commission's internal fragmentation and specialization. Based on interviews with experienced policy‐makers from the Commission…
Introduction: Special issue on EU-induced policy change in Turkey’s environment and energy policy
In view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. Against this background, in this special issue, we explore the extent to which reforms in Turkey’s environment and energy policy are (still) influenced by the EU. This introduction briefly reviews the Turkey re…
Policy learning: An understudied mechanism of EU influence on Turkish domestic politics
This article argues that EU-induced learning processes in Turkish domestic politics deserve greater attention within the Turkey-related Europeanization literature, which, in view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union, tends to attribute a continued partial alignment with EU policies to either domestic, or to non-EU-related external factors. Two arguments are put forward. First, in domestically driven reform processes, the EU may…
The implications of the better regulation agenda for the European Parliament’s inter- and intra-institutional power relations
How do the European Commission’s and the European Parliament (EP) Secretariat’s better regulation agendas affect the EP’s intra- and inter-institutional relations? Based on document analysis and interviews with members of the EP and EU officials, this article presents four key findings. First, the increase in inter-institutional coordination has strengthened the EP president’s and the chairs’ influence in their respective party groups but contrib…
Political steering in the European Commission: A comparison of the energy and health sectors
Upon taking office as President of the European Commission in 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker initiated a series of reforms to the internal workings of the EU executive. Existing research suggests that these have been successful in increasing political steering, creating a Commission which focuses on fewer fields, controls the policy activism of its officials and produces less legislative output. However, much of this research focuses on the Commission…
The party politics of learning from failure: The German Greens and the lessons drawn from the 2013 general election
Exploring the party political learning of the German Greens, a powerful agent of environmental policy in European politics, we identify the strategic and programmatic lessons learned from their failure in the 2013 general elections and explain the party politics that facilitated these lessons. We advance research on learning from failures by understanding failures not as objective facts but as constructed in political discourse. Tracing the main …
Modernization of Environmental Reporting as a Tool to Improve the European Commission's Regulatory Monitoring Capacity
Recent reforms in the reporting and monitoring process, in particular enabled by advances in digital technology, have made three main contributions to the European Commission's capacity to monitor member states' compliance with EU environmental law. First, quicker access to data has been achieved by increased levels of publicly available electronic data, data processing by the European Environmental Agency, and data harvesting at EU level. Second…
Political science (22 works) · Law (17 works) · European union (16 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (14 works) · International trade (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Commission (9 works)