Public Administrators in the Europeanization of Risk Governance – Co-Creation Amidst the Political Heterarchy

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ID13124137
AuthorsJeremias Herberg (0000-0003-4388-796X, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume3
Issue2
Pages42-58
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Practice & Europeanization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2566-7742 • E-ISSN: 2566-7742
PublisherNomos (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.5771/2566-7742-2018-2-42
OpenAlexW3215819073
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This article depicts a dialectic relationship between the creative conduct of public administrators on the one hand, and the institutional complexity of their political surrounding, on the other. An ethnographic study of the collaborative policy design of the Dutch predecessor of REACH ('Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals'), so-called SOMS (Dutch: Strategy dealing with substances), shows how risk governance policies are created, or even co-created against the backdrop of Europeanization. This creativity is depicted and operationalized through the notions of articulation work Dutch public administrators engaged heavily in European negotiations, thus operating amidst contradictory hierarchies and juggling with several evaluative criteria. Eventually, in 2007, this trajectory led to what some call the European Commission's most complex bill The Europeanization of risk governance is characterized as a process in which hierarchies are primarily not steepened or overcome, but rather multiplied and recombined into contradictory value systems and conflictual policy constellations. The paper therefore argues that Europeanization creates a political heterarchy, in which the creativity of policy-makers plays a pivotal, but paradoxical role

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