3. The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective

This chapter examines the European Union’s policy-making process with a comparative perspective. It outlines the stages of the policy-making process (agenda-setting, policy formation, decision-making, implementation, and policy feedback) and considers the prevailing approaches to analysing each of these stages. It also shows how these approaches apply to studying policy-making in the EU. Themes addressed in this chapter include policy-making and the policy cycle, the players in the policy process, executive politics, legislative politics, and judicial politics. The chapter argues that theories rooted in comparative politics and international relations can help elucidate the different phases of the EU’s policy process. It concludes by explaining why policy-making varies across issue areas within the EU.

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Inštitucionálne zázemie mládežníckej politiky Slovenska: priestor pre europeizáciu?

10.34135/svpmvpiv.191009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 77-89

Author(s):

Tomáš Džačovský

Keyword(s):

Policy Process ◽

Policy Making ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

National Level ◽

Science Research ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽

Policy Cycle ◽

Youth Policy ◽

The Eu

Youth policy of the Slovak Republic in the present is in development process of a new strategy for youth. At the national level, the policy is made by interdepartmental and interdisciplinary cooperation accommodated by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. In a process of policy making, the Ministry cooperates also with different actors on local and regional levels as well as on the European level. European Union develops its own youth policy in the form of Youth Strategy 2019-2027.Youth policy is, however, only a weak competence of the EU, while every country develops its own policy on the national level. Thereby it is important to focus on the level of influence of the EU through Europeanization on the Slovak youth policy, and on the question, whether there is any Europeanization during policy process at the national level at all. The aim of this work was to analyse the process of agenda-setting and policy formulation during the policy process of youth policy making under the responsibility of the Ministry and to investigate possible influence of Europeanization on this phase of a policy cycle. By using qualitative data analysis and process-tracing method we were able to find some evidence of possible Europeanization in early phases of the policy-process. On the other side, we found limitations of an EU influence on that process mainly as a result of non-binding nature of the open method of coordination.

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Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Proses Kebijakan Daerah

Jurnal Desentralisasi ◽

10.37378/jd.2012.2.163-177 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 163-177

Author(s):

Abdullah Manshur

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Public Participation ◽

Policy Evaluation ◽

Policy Process ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Problem Situation ◽

Policy Cycle ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Public ◽

Policy Making Process

Public policy is a decision to deal with a particular problem situation, that identifies the objectives, principles, ways, and means to achieve them. The ability and understanding of policy makers in the policy-making process is very important for the realization of public policy of rapid, accurate and adequate. The product to suit the needs of the public policy, public participation in the policy process is needed in the policy cycle, from policy formulation to policy evaluation. This paper attempts to review the importance of community participation and other forms of public participation in the policy process, in particular, policy areas.

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Theorizing Party Interaction Within EPFs and Their Effects on the EU Policy-Making Process

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.335060 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erol Kulahci

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Eu Policy ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

The Eu

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Parliamentary Committees

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.38 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ingvar Mattson

Keyword(s):

Policy Process ◽

Policy Making ◽

Political Conflict ◽

Minority Government ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Swedish Politics ◽

Opposition Parties

This chapter describes the role of the Swedish parliament, and parliamentary committees in particular, in the policy-making process. The role depends on the parliamentary situation: whether there is a majority government or minority government in power. In essence, the chapter shows that Parliament mainly approves governmental bills and seldom initiates legislation. It is an arena for both political conflict and consensus. Political negotiations between governmental parties and opposition parties occur in which the opposition has influence on parliamentary decisions in the policy process. Due to increased conflict between the two blocs in Swedish politics, the importance of the committees as grounds for negotiating compromises has, however, decreased.

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Spatializing authoritarian neoliberalism by way of cultural politics: City, nation and the European Union in Gdańsk’s politics of cultural policy formation

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/2399654420965239 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 239965442096523

Author(s):

Thomas Borén ◽

Patrycja Grzyś ◽

Craig Young

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Political Economy ◽

Cultural Policy ◽

Policy Making ◽

National Level ◽

Policy Research ◽

Policy Formation ◽

The European Union ◽

Policy Mobilities ◽

The Eu

This paper develops perspectives which seek to spatialize authoritarian neoliberalism through arguing for greater engagement with the politics of urban cultural policy formation in the neglected context of post-socialist East and Central Europe. Through analyzing the politics of urban cultural policy-making in Gdańsk, Poland, the paper spatializes authoritarian neoliberalism by exploring how relations between the urban and the national, and between the urban and the supranational, shape urban cultural policy, drawing upon literatures on political economy, policy mobilities, cultural policy research, and the concepts of authoritarian neoliberalism and the relational-territorial nexus. Gdańsk is a liberally run city, strongly aligned with the European Union (EU), opposed to the authoritarian neoliberal national level politics in Poland. The paper analyses urban-national tensions and relationships between Gdańsk and the EU to unpack the contested spatial nature of authoritarian neoliberalism.

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2. Theorizing EU Policy-Making

Policy-Making in the European Union ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198807605.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 12-42

Author(s):

Mark A. Pollack

Keyword(s):

Comparative Politics ◽

Policy Making ◽

Separation Of Powers ◽

Judicial Politics ◽

European Union Policy ◽

Eu Policy ◽

Liberal Intergovernmentalism ◽

Union Policy ◽

Multi Level ◽

The Eu

This chapter surveys seven decades of theorizing about European Union policy-making and policy processes. It begins with a discussion of theories of European integration, including neo-functionalism, intergovernmentalism, liberal intergovernmentalism, institutionalism, constructivism, and postfunctionalism. It then considers the increasing number of studies that approach the EU through the lenses of comparative politics and comparative public policy, focusing on the federal or quasi-federal aspects of the EU and its legislative, executive, and judicial politics. It finally explores the vertical and horizontal separation of powers in the EU and concludes by looking at the ‘governance approach’ to the EU, with emphasis on multi-level governance and EU policy networks, Europeanization, and the question of the EU’s democratic deficit.

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Introduction

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.50 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Carl Dahlström

Keyword(s):

Policy Process ◽

Policy Making ◽

Political Support ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Commissions Of Inquiry ◽

Referral Systems ◽

The Creation ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Rational Process ◽

Over Time

This chapter introduces the section on policy-making in Sweden. It starts from the observation that, at least for outside observers, Swedish policy-making has been portrayed as a rational process. Two features of Swedish policy-making have been particularly important for the emerging of the idea of a consensual and rational process. The first, and most well known, is the corporatist policy-making style, and the second feature is the commissions of inquiry and referral systems. Two other important characteristics of the Swedish policy process concern coordination and the creation of party-political support. The chapters in this section describe these four features of the Swedish policy-making process and pay special attention to changes over time.

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