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Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, and Katja Mäkinen
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 115–139 (25 total)
Georg Menz
English abstract: European immigration policy making has often been characterized either as a largely spill-over driven process or as “venue shopping,” a way to escape from the confines of national capitals. This article suggests that success in policy creation hinges crucially on the presence of a policy entrepreneur; while the European Commission faced propitious conditions for acting in this fashion, it did not always manage to do so. Drawing on the creation of key directives on asylum and labor migration as empirical case studies, the argument is developed that only when the European Commission exhibits the core characteristics of successful policy entrepreneurs does it succeed in shaping migration directives.
Spanish abstract: La formulación de la política migratoria europea a menudo se ha caracterizado ya sea como un gran proceso conducido por el desborde (“spillover”), o como un lugar de escape (“venue shopping”) de los confines de capitales nacionales. Este artículo sugiere que el éxito en la creación de políticas se basa esencialmente en la presencia de un emprendedor político, y mientras que la Comisión Europea enfrenta condiciones propicias para actuar de esa manera, no siempre logra hacerlo. Sobre la base de la creación de directivas centrales sobre asilo y migración laboral como casos empíricos de estudio, el argumento se desarrolla cuando la Comisión Europea presenta las características esenciales de un emprendedor político y logra éxitos en la conformación de las directivas de migración.
French abstract: L'élaboration de la politique migratoire européenne a souvent été caractérisée comme un processus piloté par spillover ou encore comme « venue shopping » d'évasion aux confins des capitales nationales. Cet article suggère que le succès de l'élaboration d'une politique dépend crucialement de la présence d'un entrepreneur politique ; et que, bien que la Commission européenne ait eu des conditions favorables pour agir dans ce sens, elle ne l'a pas toujours fait. S'appuyant sur la création des directives clés en matière d'asile et de la circulation de la main-d'œuvre comme sur des études de cas empiriques, l'argument ici développé montre que ce n'est que lorsque la Commission européenne aura réuni avec succès les qualités de base relatives à l'entrepreneuriat politique qu'elle parviendra à modeler les directives européennes sur la migration.
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–102 (17 total)
Building Bridges over Troubled Waters
EU Civil Servants and the Transcendence of Distance and Difference
Seamus Montgomery
significance of national borders, both physical and social, in the contemporary stage of globalisation. This Forum contribution analyses certain ways in which civil servants working in the European Commission position themselves in these debates while
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–122 (9 total)
Jeffrey J. Anderson
The aim of this chapter is to assess the European Commission
under Romano Prodi’s presidency. Prodi took office in September
1999, at a time when both the Commission’s standing within the
European Union (EU) and its internal morale were floundering at
historic lows, the result of months of internal scandal and bruising,
public confrontations with the European Parliament, the media,
and the member governments. It is a testament to Prodi’s political
skills that a mere fifteen months later, the Commission is once
again on an even keel and charting a steady course, moreover playing
an important if not necessarily central role in the major debates
of the day in the European Union.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2001
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 103–118 (16 total)
Peter R. A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt, and Ton Korver
Social innovation is becoming a core value of the EU flagship initiative Innovation Union, but it is not clearly demarcated as it covers a wide field of topics. To understand social innovation within European policymaking a brief outline is given of EC policy developments on innovation and on workplace innovation. Definitions of social innovation formulated at the societal level and the organizational or workplace level are discussed. Empirical research findings of workplace innovation in the Netherlands are presented as examples showing that workplace innovation activities boost organizational performance. The article explores the relation between workplace innovation and social innovation, and concludes that policy developments in the EU can be studied with the theory of social quality, provided that the latter in its empirical approach focuses on how individuals together constitute innovations.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–49 (19 total)
Inequality and poverty
The ill-fitting pieces in the EU’s development partnerships
Riina Pilke and Marikki Stocchetti
Commission, 2014a ; European Commission, 2015 ). It has also established a model of building development partnerships with different types of poorer countries, starting with the European Community and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) partnership in
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–22 (22 total)
Improving and protecting human rights
A reflection of the quality of education for migrant and marginalized Roma children in Europe
Silvia-Maria Chireac and Anna Devis Arbona
access to quality early childhood education and care ( European Commission, 2014 ), segregation, attendance and achievement in education system ( Bhopal & Myers, 2008 ). Access to education implies a climate of respect where Roma children can thrive
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 52–76 (25 total)
Introduction
Mobility in doctoral education – and beyond
Corina Balaban and Susan Wright
This special issue emerged as a result of Universities in the Knowledge Economy (UNIKE), a four-year collaborative research project and training programme for early-stage researchers that investigated the dynamic relationships between universities and knowledge economies in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific Rim. The project was funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (EC) and included researchers based at six different universities in five European countries. Mobility was not only a widespread research interest within the UNIKE academic community but also a reality of the project, which was in itself a practical example of mobility in doctoral education, as envisaged by the European Commission. Many questions emerged as to how mobility became so central to the European Union’s policies for higher education, but also as to how the portrayal of mobility on a policy level compared to the actual lived experiences of mobile students and researchers. ‘Mobility’ can refer to many different things: geographical mobility, social mobility, cross-sectoral mobility or intellectual mobility (interdisciplinarity). The academic literature mostly treats them separately, with clusters of studies around each concept. In contrast, this special issue sets out to investigate these different types of mobility collectively, with authors covering several parts or the whole spectrum of mobilities. We believe it is valuable to discuss these four different aspects of mobility together for two reasons. First, they are often mentioned together in higher education policy as ‘desirable’ characteristics of a given education programme. Second, the ideal profile of the new, flexible knowledge worker supposedly combines all these aspects of mobility in one persona. The policy literature produced by influential stakeholders in higher education such as the European Commission and the OECD focuses on how to encourage, foster and support different kinds of mobility, working on the assumption that mobility is inherently good and will benefit countries, higher education systems and individuals. Much of the academic literature has adopted a similar approach, focusing on ways to enable mobility rather than challenge it.
Massimiliano Andretta and Nicola Chelotti
The G8 summit meets annually, bringing together the heads of government
of France, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom,
Germany, Italy, Japan, and Canada.1 The rotating president of the
European Council and the president of the European Commission also
participate. The countries involved take turns hosting the summit, and
in 2009, Italy hosted it for the fifth time since 1975 in L’Aquila. Italy’s
prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been in the unique position of
hosting the summit three consecutive times—in 1994, 2001, and 2009.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 130–148 (19 total)
The considerable labour of many over the last three years to develop the concept of social quality, has finally been rewarded by the European Commission. Not just one, but two projects will be implemented with financial support from Brussels. The first of these projects is concerned with the development of indicators of social quality and the second one seeks to apply the theory to employment. This can be seen as recognition of the importance of the work that has been done so far and an incentive to carry on with our task.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2001
- Article Type:
- Meeting Report
- Pages:
- 161–164 (4 total)