The impact of Juncker's reorganization of the European Commission on the internal policy‐making process: Evidence from the Energy Union project

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bürgin
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Energy Union ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Internal Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Union Project

Show Me the Numbers: Bureaucratic Use of Data in the Policy Making Process

2022 ◽  
pp. 009539972110699
Author(s):  
Tracey Bark
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Legislative Agendas ◽  
The Impact

Bureaucracies often provide information to legislatures in an effort to influence the agenda. This paper assesses whether data affects this influence, arguing quantitative support can increase the likelihood of legislative discussion and passage of bills related to a given topic. I also assess the impact of centralization on an agency’s ability to provide information and shape legislative agendas. I find including data in bureaucratic reports can significantly increase an agency’s influence on the legislature, but this effect is only present in a centralized setting. These results suggest centralized agencies are better equipped to marshal quantitative support for arguments to legislatures.

Public Opinion, Domestic Structure, and Foreign Policy in Liberal Democracies

1991 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Risse-Kappen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Impact

The paper discusses the role of public opinion in the foreign policy-making process of liberal democracies. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, public opinion matters. However, the impact of public opinion is determined not so much by the specific issues involved or by the particular pattern of public attitudes as by the domestic structure and the coalition-building processes among the elites in the respective country. The paper analyzes the public impact on the foreign policy-making process in four liberal democracies with distinct domestic structures: the United States, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan. Under the same international conditions and despite similar patterns of public attitudes, variances in foreign policy outcomes nevertheless occur; these have to be explained by differences in political institutions, policy networks, and societal structures. Thus, the four countries responded differently to Soviet policies during the 1980s despite more or less comparable trends in mass public opinion.

9. The European Commission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Organization ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Implementation Programme

This chapter focuses on the European Commission, arguing that it is more productive to compare it to national executives or to a government than to a secretariat of a traditional international organization. It first provides an overview of the Commission's functions within the European Union's policy-making process, including agenda-setting, policy implementation, programme management, and external relations, and notes that the Commission plays a more limited role in foreign, security, and defence policy. The chapter proceeds by discussing the question of Commission influence and autonomy, along with the structure, demography, and decision behaviour within the Commission. It also describes committees and administrative networks that link the Commission to national administrations and interest groups, as well as the recent growth of EU agencies.

Impact of administrative reform of the European Commission: results from a survey of heads of unit in policy-making directorates

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
The Impact

The Kinnock reform has changed the European Commission. This article discusses the link between reform effects and policy output. A survey of more than 100 heads of unit (HoU) of policy-making Directorates-General serves as the empirical basis. It is concluded that the recent reform of the Commission does indeed comprehensively redefine the role of the HoU. Their resource base to focus on policy drafting has been hugely reduced. Negative consequences for the organization’s potential to deliver policy draft of high quality are therefore very likely. Points for practitioners This article deals with the following areas: • Middle management as organizational backbone • The perils of decentralizing management functions • The impact of administrative reform on policy output.

Regionalization and Economic Crisis in Belgium: The Variable Origins of Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Covell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political System ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Government ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Centripetal Forces ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article examines the impact of economic crisis on the process of regionalization in Belgium and the influence of both on the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces in the Belgian political system. It argues that the usual approach to this suject, which identifies centripetal forces with the national government and centrifugal forces with regional governments, misses the possibility that important proponents of further fragmentation may be located at the national level. The economic crisis of the early 1980s did lead to an increase in centrifugal pressures in the system but not to an increase in the power of the new regional executives. Rather, it led to a major rearrangement of the economic policy-making process at the national level.

scholarly journals Assessing the impact of transport policy instruments on road haulage energy efficiency

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivera Medar ◽  
Vladimir Papic ◽  
Aleksandar Manojlovic ◽  
Snezana Filipovic
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Road Haulage ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Network Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Decision Making

This paper focuses on elements of transport policies affecting energy efficiency of road haulage. The purpose is to present a tool developed to support decision making during the policy making process, at the stage of formulating the elements of transport policies. The paper describes a model developed to assess the impact of policy instruments on fleet energy efficiency by multi-criteria ranking applying the Analytical Network Process. The paper describes the possibilities to employ the defined model giving the example of international road haulage in the Republic of Serbia. The application led to a proposal for policy instruments which could have the highest impact on the increase of energy efficiency in this sector and which will be considered further in detail during the policy formulation process.

scholarly journals REGULATORY PROVISION OF ENTERPRISE ACCOUNTING POLICY

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Lubov KOVAL
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Standard Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Accounting Policy

The features of accounting policy formation are considered in the article taking into account the provisions of the current regulatory framework. The international practice of regulation of accounting policies of the enterprise from the adoption of the first IAS to the present day is investigated. The terms given in domestic legislation and foreign regulations are compared. The role, objectives and significance of accounting policies in an entity's activities are determined. In addition, a list of factors that influence the process of accounting policies and the choice of its elements. The impact of each of them is investigated. The comparative analysis of changes in some legal acts affecting accounting policy is made. It has been established that changes in legislation directly affect the accounting policy-making process. Thus, the addition of the term "accounting policy" contributes to the full disclosure of its essence. Because accounting policies are intended to facilitate, first of all, accounting and then the formation of financial statements. Supplementation of other articles influences the formation of certain elements of accounting policy, which form both methodical component, organizational and technical. The basic normative legal acts regulating the formation and use of accounting policies of an enterprise in Ukraine are given. It is stated that these normative legal acts do not regulate the structure of the accounting policy order, thus bringing this issue to the attention of the head and the chief accountant. In this connection, the standard structure of the accounting policy order is outlined and the stages of its formation are set out, which is not specified in the current regulatory framework. It is proposed to develop and introduce a separate P (C) IAS, which would regulate exclusively the issue of accounting policy formation, indicating the structure of the accounting policy order and the stages of its formation. As a result of the study, conclusions and suggestions were formed.

scholarly journals Science and Law in Environmental Law and Policy: The Case of the European Commission

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-295
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Čavoški
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Institutional Values ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Environmental Law And Policy

AbstractThis article draws on empirical research conducted with European Commission officials in three Directorates-General and its other services on their perception of how the legislative and policy-making process facilitates the interaction of science and environmental law. This article deploys Sheila Jasanoff's theoretical framework of co-production as an important lens to examine how the European Commission creates this interaction of science and law in environmental policy making and identifies how the Commission incorporates different voices and stakeholders in this policy area. The Commission can be seen as a vehicle of co-production of science and law in EU environmental policy by building strong expert identities, putting in place institutional processes and instruments, and creating discourse between scientists and lawyers leading to outputs of co-production. It is argued that in actively facilitating co-production, the Commission underpins the legislative and policy-making process with its institutional values.

The British political, social and economic system and the decision for peace and war: reflections on Anglo-German relations 1800—1939

1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf D. Gruner
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Difference Of Opinion ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
The Impact

One of the main fields of historical research for the period between the two world wars has been the role of National Socialist Germany in world politics and the character of the British policy of appeasement. A difference of opinion as to the roots and aims of German and British policies in the 1930s continues to exist as a result of disparate interpretations of the decisive factors of these policies. The extent to which such factors as security interests at home and abroad, problems of trade, domestic and foreign policy, economic conditions and social change influence the policy-making process, as well as the impact these elements have on the capability or incapability for reform of the sociopolitical system, remains controversial.

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