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Title:Means of bureaucratic influence : the interplay between formal autonomy and informal styles in international bureaucracies Author(s):BAUER, Michael W. ; ECKHARD, Steffen; EGE, Jörn; KNILL, ChristophDate:2024Citation:Helge JÖRGENS, Nina KOLLECK and Mareike WELL (eds), International public administrations in environmental governance : the role of autonomy, agency, and the quest for attention, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024, Earth system governance series, pp. 27-56Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter investigates how formal autonomy and informal administrative working styles of international public administrations (IPAs) are interrelated empirically. Recent research on IPAs identified a paradoxical ...
Title:Administrative backsliding Author(s):BAUER, Michael W. Date:2024Citation:Aurel CROISSANT and Luca TOMINI (eds), The Routledge handbook of autocratization, London : Routledge, 2024, pp. 362-376Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Democratic administration can be conceived as a political institution of the state in its own right. As part of executive government democratic administration is exposed to backsliding pressures at an early stage of ...
Title:The OECD in the ecosystem of international organization Author(s):STONE, Diane Lesley Date:2023Citation:Fabrizio DE FRANCESCO and Claudio RADAELLI (eds), The Elgar companion to the OECD, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Elgar companions to international organisations, pp. 95-104Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The OECD is deeply involved in what it calls ‘international rule making’ with other international organizations. Since the OECD’s establishment, the ecosystem of international organization has evolved to include more diverse ...
Title:European digital sovereignty Author(s):INNERARITY, Daniel Date:2023Citation:Annette BONGARDT and Francisco TORRES (eds), The political economy of Europe’s future and identity : integration in crisis mode, Florence : European University Institute, 2023, pp. 286-292Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The emergence and development of the internet has been linked to expectations of deterritorialization, generating in some cases euphoria and in others unease, under the impetus of a cyberlibertarian culture or sparking ...
Title:International taxation Author(s):AIT ABDELLOUHAB, Faycal ; RADAELLI, Claudio M. Date:2023Citation:Fabrizio DE FRANCESCO and Claudio M. RADAELLI (eds), The Elgar companion to the OECD, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Elgar Companions to International Organisations, pp. 174-184Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The OECD has been involved in international tax governance since the mid-20th century, in the wake of the pioneering work of the League of Nations on international double taxation. Initially focused on developing a network ...
Title:Introduction to The Elgar companion to the OECD Author(s):DE FRANCESCO, Fabrizio; RADAELLI, Claudio M. Date:2023Citation:Fabrizio DE FRANCESCO and Claudio M. RADAELLI (eds), The Elgar companion to the OECD, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Elgar companions to international organisations, pp. 1-7Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Although without funds and few legal instruments, the position of the OECD in the global competition for ideas, policy instruments, reform agendas, production of indicators is remarkable. How is this possible? This is the ...
Title:Regulation Author(s):DE FRANCESCO, Fabrizio; RADAELLI, Claudio M. Date:2023Citation:Fabrizio DE FRANCESCO and Claudio M. RADAELLI (eds), The Elgar companion to the OECD, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Elgar Companions to International Organisations, pp. 167-173Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:What is the role of the OECD in regulation? What has it achieved? What are the challenges? We answer these questions by providing an historical account of the emergence and consolidation of the ‘better regulation’ agenda, ...
Title:Demoicratic theory : bridging positive, critical and normative approaches to European studies Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso ; LIEBERT, Ulrike Date:2023Citation:Samuel FAURE and Christian LEQUESNE (eds), The Elgar companion to the European Union, Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp. 48-66Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter provides an overview of the main elements of demoicratic theory, its philosophical tenets and concrete policy implications. It argues that the demoicratic third way is more demanding politically and sociologically ...
Title:The peoples imagined : constituting a democratic European polity Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso Date:2023Citation:Jan KOMÁREK (ed.), European constitutional imaginaries : between ideology and utopia, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 231-258Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The French philosopher Paul Ricoeur suggests that if polities need to rest on some sort of social imaginary, their collective horizons can be uttered in two contrasting languages—that of ideology or that of utopia—and that, ...
Title:Interpretative turn Author(s):INNERARITY, Daniel Date:2023Citation:Simonetta MORO (ed.), 2023, The Vattimo dictionary, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp. 108-110Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The contemporary hermeneutics of which Vattimo is a particularly qualified representative has contributed decisively to freeing reason from the slavery of the scientific ideal of objectivity (BI). This is why the interpretative ...
Title:The single market Author(s):HARCOURT, Alison Jane ; RADAELLI, Claudio M. Date:2023Citation:Samuel FAURE and Christian LEQUESNE (eds), The Elgar companion to the European Union, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp. 224-234Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The single market is the core business of the EU (Pelkmans, 2016). It is a project where policy and politics meet. In terms of policy, the single market has been developed around the goal of achieving freedom of free ...
Title:Obstructing in the name of the people : populism, euroscepticism, and European Union accession in South-Eastern Europe Author(s):MESAROVICH, Alexander Date:2023Citation:Haris DAJČ and Natasza STYCZYŃSKA (eds), Faces of populism in Central and South-Eastern Europe, Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2023, pp. 15-52Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Euroscepticism takes many forms, from disagreements on policy to disputes over abstract concepts such as 'sovereignty' and culture. Throughout the process of European Union (EU) accession, all these arguments are mobilized ...
Title:Framing the interrelations between forests and human health Author(s):VAN DEN BOSCH, Matilda; VAN DEN BERG, Agnes; DAVAND, Payam; FENG, Xiaoqi; MORAND, Serge; REMANS, Roseline; TYRVÄINEN, Liisa; DE VRIES, Sjerp; GIBBS, Emma ; Sankam, JoshithaDate:2023Citation:Cecil KONIJNENDIJK, Dikshya DEVKOTA, Stephanie MANSOURIAN and Christoph WILDBURGER (eds), Forests and trees for human health : pathways, impacts, challenges and response options : a global assessment report, Vienna : International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), 2023, World series ; 41, pp. 25-76Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This peer-reviewed assessment is the most comprehensive on this topic to date and has been carried out by the Global Forest Expert Panel (GFEP) on Forests and Human Health in the frame of the IUFRO-led Joint Initiative of ...
Title:Croyance et confiance en négociation Author(s):LEMPEREUR, Alain Raymond Georges Joseph Date:2023Citation:Richard DELAYE-HABERMACHER, Yves ENRÈGLE and Pascal LARDELLIER (eds), Croyance, croyances... : la rationalité à l'épreuve des 'pensées buissonnières', Paris : L'Harmattan, 2023, Des hauts et débats, pp. 49-74Type:Contribution to book
Title:Democratic respect in times of crisis : the case of the Next Generation EU fund Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso Date:2023Citation:Annette BONGARDT and Francisco TORRES (eds), The political economy of Europe’s future and identity : integration in crisis mode, Florence : European University Institute, 2023, pp. 30-42Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Crisis may generate policies that open new political vistas, pushing back the limits of the possible, or on the contrary policies that constrain our collective agency, giving defenders of the existing order a pretext on ...
Title:Exceptionally exceptional? : a postscript on Brexit in the guise of a conclusion Author(s):NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso ; WEALE, Albert; LORD, Christopher; FOSSUM, John ErikDate:2023Citation:Christopher LORD and John Erik FOSSUM (eds), Handbook on the European Union and Brexit, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, pp. 504-517Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This postscript starts with Kalypso Nicolaïdis' reflections on the role of the scholar in engaging with the dominant Brexit narratives, and ends with brief reflections by John Erik Fossum, Christopher Lord and Albert Weale. ...
Title:Policy learning and policy evaluation Author(s):DUNLOP, Claire A.; RADAELLI, Claudio M. Date:2023Citation:Frédéric VARONE, Steve JACOB and Pirmin BUNDI (eds), Handbook of public policy evaluation, Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Handbooks of research on public policy series, pp. 76-92Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The theory and practice of evaluation have often been inspired by the motivation to learn. We explain the conceptual and causal connections between evaluation and learning, addressing three questions: what is the content ...
Title:Better regulation as soft law Author(s):RADAELLI, Claudio M. ; TAFFONI, Gaia Date:2023Citation:Mariolina ELIANTONIO, Emilia KORKEA-AHO and Ulrika MÖRTH (eds), Research handbook on soft law, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, Research handbooks in law and politics series, pp. 116-131Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Better regulation is an agenda aiming at managing legislation across the different stages of the policy cycle. At the EU level, this agenda for reform has been handled as soft law with communications, reports, principles, ...
Title:Freedom of speech and the regulation of fake news in the European Union : the EU policy to tackle disinformation Author(s):ABBAMONTE, Giuseppe B.; GORI, Paula Date:2023Citation:Oreste POLLICINO (ed.), Freedom of speech and the regulation of fake news, Cambridge : Intersentia, 2023, pp. 129-166Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Disinformation has always existed. What has changed in recent years is the speed and the reach of its spread. Th e 2016 US elections and the 2019 UK elections brought the disinformation phenomenon to the attention of ...
Title:Estudiar Asia desde América Latina en tiempos de corrección política y amenazas a la democracia Author(s):PEDROSA, Fernando; POVSE, Max Date:2023Citation:Fernando PEDROSA and Max POVSE (eds), Retrocesos democráticos en Asia : una agenda de estudio para América Latina, Buenos Aires : Eudeba (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires) ; Sociedad de Economía Mixta, 2023, pp. 9-20Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:En su clásico libro sobre la democratización, Samuel Huntington (1991) señaló que los procesos de avance democrático (y también los de retroceso) son fenómenos que exceden las meras coyunturas nacionales –aunque pueda haber ...