The Europeanisation of budget support

Do Government Capacity and Autonomy Matter

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7989535
AutoresSvea Koch (German Institute of Development and Sustainability, autor correspondente), Nadia Molenaers (0000-0003-1266-5598)
Ano2015
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas90-104
Data de publicação2015-09-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2015.1075778
OpenAlexW2212158407
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas11

In the last decade, budget support (BS) has become one of the most popular and controversial aid modalities. The tensions between the EU and member states regarding the use of this modality set in motion interesting policy influencing dynamics. We reconstruct these processes looking at two turning-points (the inception and the subsequent reform of the BS policy) and compare over time the positions, capacities and policies of three EU member states with varying positions towards BS: Germany, the UK and Belgium. We find no evidence that the EU has been able to download its BS policies. Instead we find some evidence of limited delegation to the EU level, and strong indications of member states uploading policy preferences to the EU level. We further argue that domestic politics in member states matters more than EU aid policy prescriptions, and that the EU's policy space is crucially influenced by its own and member states capacities and autonomy to build political alliances around policy preferences

Autonomy · Delegation · Economics · European union · Europeanisation · International trade · Member state · Member states · Political science · Politics · International Development and Aid · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies