How the European Commission's policies are Made : Problematization, Instrumentation and Legitimation
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Journal of European Integration / Revue d'Intégration Européenne. 2014, vol. 36, n° 1, p. 55-72
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Resumen en inglés
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 ...Leer más >
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.< Leer menos
Palabras clave en inglés
European Commission
legitimation
problematization
politicization
pharmaceuticals
wine
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