Walking the Tightrope
Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6282292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reinout Van Der Veer (0000-0002-8296-0499, Department of Political Science Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen the Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-100 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13272 |
| OpenAlex | W4200410856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 39 |
Recent research indicates that bottom‐up EU politicization shapes top‐down EU policy enforcement, yet leaves open questions on the pervasiveness of these effects in policy areas that are depoliticized by design. This contribution asks how societal EU politicization shaped the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact up until its COVID‐19‐induced suspension. It employs causal process‐tracing to analyse fiscal rule enforcement under varying levels and constellations of EU politicization. Results indicate that enforcement by the European Commission is shaped both by mandate and exogenous pressures created by politicization and the reputational concerns they induce. Moreover, politicization has gradually pushed the Commission towards increasingly flexible enforcement of EU fiscal rules. These conclusions are relevant because they show that politicization permeates even the most depoliticized areas of EU policy. Additionally, they suggest that the SGP's COVID‐19‐induced suspension can be understood as a continuation of existing enforcement strategies
Commission · Economic policy · Economics · Enforcement · European commission · European union · Intergovernmentalism · Law and economics · Mandate · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Stability and Growth Pact · European Union Policy and Governance · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Responding or responsiveness? How politicisation influences the European Commission's policy formulation
Talking cheap, or speaking Euro? Assessing congruence between leaders’ communication and negotiators’ positioning in the Eurozone crisis
Equal in East and West? Regional anti-gender discourses and heterogeneity of the European Commission’s discursive protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex rights
Responding in time
The European Semester as Goldilocks
The Implementation of Economic Rules
An Introduction
Money Makes the World Go Round
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions
The need to be seen to be taking action
Representation matters
Enforcement and public opinion
When does the EU commission listen to experts? Analysing the effect of external compliance assessments on supranational enforcement in the EU
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
Reputation and Power
Process-Tracing Methods
A Theory of Global Governance
Ruling Europe
Managing Legitimacy
The politics of (de-)politicization and venue choice
Austerity’s failures and policy learning
Introduction
Organizational reputation and risk regulation
A Postfunctionalist Theory of European Integration
The ‘political’ roles of the European Commission
Beyond authority transfer
Politicisation of the Eurozone crisis in Finland
Politicisation management in the European Union
Understanding responsiveness in European Union politics
Politicization compared
EU politicization and policy initiatives of the European Commission
Council Checks of the Commission under the European Semester
The Influence of the European Semester
The European Semester in the North and in the South
The EU Economy
From Market Integration to Core State Powers
Juncker's political European Commission and an EU in crisis
Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester
From a Deficit of Democracy to a Technocratic Order
Responsive Change
EU Actors under pressure
The Legal Architecture of the Economic Responses to Covid‐19
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization
Organizational Reputation, Regulatory Talk, and Strategic Silence
Organizational Reputation, the Content of Public Allegations, and Regulatory Communication
Politicization in the EU
Going full circle
Political work in the stability and growth pact
The promise of bureaucratic reputation approaches for the EU regulatory state
Flexible Austerity and Supranational Autonomy. The Reformed Excessive Deficit Procedure and the Asymmetry between Liberalization and Social Regulation in the EU
The Reputational Basis of Public Accountability
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |