SMITH, Andy

doi:10.1080/07036337.2013.809344

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SMITH, Andy
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]

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Journal of European Integration / Revue d'Intégration Européenne. 2014, vol. 36, n° 1, p. 55-72

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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How does the European Commission make its own policies? Research on EU policy-making has generated many indirect, informed answers to this question. However, a focus upon the Commission's internal practices remains under-theorized and under-specified. Drawing upon constructivist, institutionalist and sociological policy analysis, this article instead mobilizes a generic approach to policy-making as 'political work' entailing three overlapping processes: problematization, instrumentation and legitimation. This conceptual framework is then applied to a comparison of Commission policy-making as regards the wine and pharmaceuticals industries. The principal finding is that there are three scope conditions for Commission policy-making which seeks deep institutional change: problematization must be precise rather than vague; instrumentation needs to be programmatic rather than dispersed; and commissioners and senior Commission officials must commit to sustained strategies of legitimation. Overall, this theory-driven approach to policy-making provides a means of shedding new light upon both the Commission and its role within European integration.< Réduire

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European Commission

legitimation

problematization

politicization

pharmaceuticals

wine

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