Abstract: Transposition research provides an excellent opportunity to bring new data to bear on t... more Abstract: Transposition research provides an excellent opportunity to bring new data to bear on two of the most dominant theoretical approaches to European Union studies: rational choice institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. Yet the goal of comparable testing is hampered by the underspecified nature of the sociological perspective. This paper takes some steps towards identifying and operationalising a sociological explanation of the transposition of EU directives. Examining an array of alternatives, we single out an ...
The European Union and the United States both claim international leadership in disaster relief, ... more The European Union and the United States both claim international leadership in disaster relief, a high profile area of public concern and a part of each side's broadly defined foreign policy. The 2010 Haiti earthquake tested the capacities of each side to participate actively and deliberately in international disaster relief. Although both the EU and US mobilised a response effort and undertook a range of relief activities, both received criticism from internal critics and external observers. To offer a unique comparative perspective, this paper applies the concept of ‗actorness' to the EU and US in order to enhance our understanding of their respective responses. Normally applied only to the EU, the actorness concept helps to capture behavioural dynamics within a complex, multi-level system which also characterises the US. We find substantial degrees of actorness in both polities, with the EU scoring highly in contextual determinants of actorness but lower in internal fact...
ABSTRACT This research note tries to determine how politically successful the Council, the Commis... more ABSTRACT This research note tries to determine how politically successful the Council, the Commission, and the European Parliament are in the area of EU legislative decision-making. After reviewing the literature, a research design is presented which incorporates information on the policy preferences of the different institutional actors for 70 recent EU legislative decisions that were negotiated under the consultation and the codecision procedure. We use correlation and OLS regression to analyze the distances between what the EU institutional actors want and what they eventually get out of the process. The findings of the analysis are that (1) the preference profiles of the three actors are rather dissimilar, and that (2) the success rates of the Council are higher than the rates of the Commission and Parliament.
... Magnus Ekengren, Nina Matzén, Mark Rhinard & Monica Svantesson assessed the tension betwe... more ... Magnus Ekengren, Nina Matzén, Mark Rhinard & Monica Svantesson assessed the tension between solidarity and sovereignty concerns in the EU's ... In International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration , Edited by: Kelstrup, M. and Williams, MC 250294. ...
... EU Cooperation in Civil Protection MAGNUS EKENGREN*, NINA MATZÉN*, MARK RHINARD** & M... more ... EU Cooperation in Civil Protection MAGNUS EKENGREN*, NINA MATZÉN*, MARK RHINARD** & MONICA SVANTESSON* ... The Czech government estimate of their own losses varies between sixty and ninety billion Czech kronas (Procházková 2002). ...
Abstract: Transposition research provides an excellent opportunity to bring new data to bear on t... more Abstract: Transposition research provides an excellent opportunity to bring new data to bear on two of the most dominant theoretical approaches to European Union studies: rational choice institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. Yet the goal of comparable testing is hampered by the underspecified nature of the sociological perspective. This paper takes some steps towards identifying and operationalising a sociological explanation of the transposition of EU directives. Examining an array of alternatives, we single out an ...
The European Union and the United States both claim international leadership in disaster relief, ... more The European Union and the United States both claim international leadership in disaster relief, a high profile area of public concern and a part of each side's broadly defined foreign policy. The 2010 Haiti earthquake tested the capacities of each side to participate actively and deliberately in international disaster relief. Although both the EU and US mobilised a response effort and undertook a range of relief activities, both received criticism from internal critics and external observers. To offer a unique comparative perspective, this paper applies the concept of ‗actorness' to the EU and US in order to enhance our understanding of their respective responses. Normally applied only to the EU, the actorness concept helps to capture behavioural dynamics within a complex, multi-level system which also characterises the US. We find substantial degrees of actorness in both polities, with the EU scoring highly in contextual determinants of actorness but lower in internal fact...
ABSTRACT This research note tries to determine how politically successful the Council, the Commis... more ABSTRACT This research note tries to determine how politically successful the Council, the Commission, and the European Parliament are in the area of EU legislative decision-making. After reviewing the literature, a research design is presented which incorporates information on the policy preferences of the different institutional actors for 70 recent EU legislative decisions that were negotiated under the consultation and the codecision procedure. We use correlation and OLS regression to analyze the distances between what the EU institutional actors want and what they eventually get out of the process. The findings of the analysis are that (1) the preference profiles of the three actors are rather dissimilar, and that (2) the success rates of the Council are higher than the rates of the Commission and Parliament.
... Magnus Ekengren, Nina Matzén, Mark Rhinard & Monica Svantesson assessed the tension betwe... more ... Magnus Ekengren, Nina Matzén, Mark Rhinard & Monica Svantesson assessed the tension between solidarity and sovereignty concerns in the EU's ... In International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration , Edited by: Kelstrup, M. and Williams, MC 250294. ...
... EU Cooperation in Civil Protection MAGNUS EKENGREN*, NINA MATZÉN*, MARK RHINARD** & M... more ... EU Cooperation in Civil Protection MAGNUS EKENGREN*, NINA MATZÉN*, MARK RHINARD** & MONICA SVANTESSON* ... The Czech government estimate of their own losses varies between sixty and ninety billion Czech kronas (Procházková 2002). ...
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