Gaby Umbach, The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of the EES’s ‘Policy ID’ into British Traditions? in:
Intent and Reality of the European Employment Strategy , page 305 - 339
Europeanisation of National Employment Policies and Policy-Making?
Available
- doi.org/10.5771/9783845212470
- ISBN print: 978-3-8329-4128-4
- ISBN online: 978-3-8452-1247-0
- Nomos, Baden-Baden
Chapter Preview
- page 2–4 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
- page 5–14 Foreword and Acknowledgement
- page 15–18 List of Graphs and Tables
- page 19–26 List of Abbreviations
- page 27–371. Introduction – A First Snapshot of the Research Subject
- page 38–1702. Theoretico-Empirical Frame of Reference: The Conceptual Backbone of Analysis
- page 38–1112.1 Europeanisation through the OMC within European Multilevel Governance?: The Supranational ? and A of Domestic Change through European Provisions
- 2.1.1 European Multilevel Governance: Rapprochement to the Systemic Background of Europeanisation
- 2.1.1.1 The Governance Concept: Development and Surplus of an Analytical Approach
- 2.1.1.2 European Multilevel Governance: Co-ordination and Steering Processes within a Multilayered Political System
- 2.1.1.3 New Modes of Governance: Multilevel Policy Co-ordination through the Open Method of Co-ordination
- 2.1.1.3.1 Emergence and Expansion: A New Policy Instrument Rooting in National Reluctance to Transfer Sovereignty
- 2.1.1.3.2 Characteristic Features: ‘Let’s Co-ordinate’ – Achieving Better Practice by Exchanging Best Practice
- 2.1.1.3.3 Restrictions and Benefits: ‘Much Talk about Nothing’ or ‘Change through Exchange’?
- 2.1.2 The Concept of Europeanisation: Why ‘Brussels’ Matters, Why ‘Back Home’ Matters and Why It Is a Matter of Perspective
- 2.1.2.1 Multiple Definitions and Latent Concept Stretching – An Analytical ‘Wunderkind’ within a Conceptual ‘Tower of Babel’
- 2.1.2.2 Central Characteristics: ‘Up and Down and Cross’ – Scores of Ways to Impact
- 2.1.2.3 Europeanisation and Domestic Change: Cause and Effect of Policy Change and Institutional Isomorphism – Different Sides of a Multi-Dimensional Coin?
- 2.1.2.4 The ‘Whole Picture’ of Europeanisation: Key Elements Boosting or Blocking Domestic Change
- 2.1.1 European Multilevel Governance: Rapprochement to the Systemic Background of Europeanisation
- page 111–1582.2 Intervening Variables Boosting or Blocking Domestic Change caused by Europeanisation
- 2.2.1 Domestic and Cognitive/Normative Structures: National Institutional Capacity and Veto Points – Central Characteristics of the UK and Germany
- 2.2.2 Domestic Public Policy and Timing of the EES: British and German Welfare State and Employment Policy Traditions – Fringes of a Gamut?
- 2.2.2.1 The United Kingdom: Beveridge, De-regulation Thatcherite Style, and Blatcherism – Fast Track towards ‘New Labour’ Doing it the ‘Third Way’
- 2.2.2.2 Germany: Bismarckian System, ORDO-Liberalism, Neo-liberalist Monetarism, Re-Unification – The Path towards ‘Neue Mitte’ Hunting for Growth
- 2.2.2.3 The Constraints of Supranationalisation and Internationalisation: The Impact of European Economic and Monetary Integration, OECD, and IMF
- page 158–1702.3 Guiding Assumptions and Theses: Harvesting the Conceptual Vineyard
- 2.3.1 Europeanisation of Domestic Employment Policy Co-ordination Structures: Adaptation and Change Leading to Institutional Isomorphism?
- 2.3.2 Europeanisation of Employment Policies: Policy Transfer and Diffusion Leading to ?-Convergence?
- 2.3.3 Applicability of the Europeanisation Approach: Misfit and Adaptation Pressure – Omnipotent Concepts To Explain Change Instigated by the OMC?
- page 38–1112.1 Europeanisation through the OMC within European Multilevel Governance?: The Supranational ? and A of Domestic Change through European Provisions
- page 171–2403. The Why, When, How, What, and In How Far of European Employment Policy Co-ordination: Genesis, Characteristics, and Limits
- page 171–1893.1 Why and When?: The Path towards the EES – From Supplementing the Single Market towards the Lisbon Strategy
- page 189–2183.2 How and What?: Structural-Procedural Aspects and Policy Paradigm of European Employment Policy Co-ordination – The ‘Letters’ and the ‘Practice’
- 3.2.1 The ‘Legal Constitution’ of the Luxembourg Process: Structural-Procedural Aspects of the Written Proto-Type OMC
- 3.2.2 The Underlying ‘Policy ID’: Spotlight at the Initial What of the EES
- 3.2.3 Adaptation to the ‘Practice’: The Official Interim Assessment and the Streamlining of the EES – A Re-Interpretation of the ‘Legal Constitution’
- 3.2.3.1 The First Five Years: Positive Interim Assessment, Rocketing Complexity – The EES Achieving Better Practice by Exchange of Best Practice?
- 3.2.3.2 The ‘New’ EES: The 2003 Streamlining of Supranational Socio-Economic Policy Co-ordination
- 3.2.3.3 The 2003 and 2004 ‘Kok Reports’: Initiating the Re-Launch of the EES and the Lisbon Strategy – Re-Energising Implementation, Re-Calibrating Priorities
- 3.2.3.4 The 2005 Renewal of the Lisbon Strategy: Welding EGs and BEPG – Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs
- page 218–2283.3 In How Far?: European Employment Policy Co-ordination and the Constraints of Supra- and International Economic Integration
- page 228–2403.4 Interim Assessment: The Impact of the EES – Potential to Europeanise or ‘Fettered’ New Mode of Governance?
- 3.4.1 Why and When?: The Slow Path of Bottom-up Europeanisation – Economic Mal-Performance Accelerating Up-Loading Processes
- 3.4.2 How?: New Ways of Europeanisation – Networking, Mutual Exchange and Learning as the Key to Domestic Change
- 3.4.3 What?: A New ‘Policy ID’ to Europeanise National Employment Policies – The Activation Paradigm’s Potential to Attain ?-Convergence
- 3.4.4 In How Far?: A New Mode of Governance Constrained by the Supranational Macro-Economic Integration Paradigm
- page 241–3044. Structural-Procedural Aspects in Practice: The ‘Living Constitution’ of the Proto-Type OMC – The Political Reality of the EES-PCN
- page 241–2704.1 The Supranational Part of the EES-PCN: Cards Re-Shuffled Revealing a New Integrated Approach?
- 4.1.1 The European Commission: The ‘Primary Administrator’ of the EES – Analysing, Preparing, Evaluating, Negotiating, and Drafting
- 4.1.2 The Council of the EU: Multilevel Switchboard of the New ‘Third Wayism’ Co-ordination Structure – The EES-PCN Going ‘A Little’ Public
- 4.1.3 The ‘Others’: The European Council, EP, ECOSOC, and CoR – The Eagle of Processes and the Mere ‘Also-Rans’?
- 4.1.4 The Social Partners: The EES-related Supranational Social Dialogue – Real Integration or Just Friendly Lip Service?
- 4.1.5 Interim Assessment: The Supranational Part of the EES-PCN – A New Integrated PCN Interlinking Socio-Economic Policy Co-ordination Processes?
- page 270–3044.2 The National Ends of the EES-PCN: Bypassing Domestic Paths or Resilient Traditions at Work – Adaptation Leading to Institutional Isomorphism?
- 4.2.1 British Employment Policy Co-ordination: Integrated Leadership, Centralised Polity, ‘Trimmed Pluralism’, Few Veto Points, and the EES – ‘Strangers in the Night’?
- 4.2.1.1 The Department for Work and Pensions: Pilotage of the British Part of the EES-PCN – Guiding, Steering, and Compiling the UK NAP
- 4.2.1.2 The Department of Trade and Industry: Channelling the Social Partners – Business as Usual?
- 4.2.1.3 Her Majesty’s Treasury: Paramount Economic Overlook – Who Pays, Surveys
- 4.2.1.4 The ‘Others’: No. 10, the DfES, Parliament and the Devolved Administrations – Additional Protagonists or the Play’s Extras?
- 4.2.1.5 The Social Partners: British Social Dialogue Traditions and the UK Part of the EES-PCN – Strait-Jacket for New Ways of Policy Co-ordination?
- 4.2.1.6 Interim Assessment: The UK Part of the EES-PCN – ‘Doing it the British Way’ in the Shadow of Centralisation
- 4.2.2 German Employment Policy Co-ordination: Fragmented Leadership, De-Centralised Polity, ‘Corporatist Style’ Pluralism, Several Veto Points, and the EES – ‘Brothers in Mind’?
- 4.2.2.1 The Ministry of Finance: Pulling the Strings – Technical Lead as a Matter of Principle
- 4.2.2.2 The Ministry of Economics and Labour: The ‘Window to the Outside World’ – Keeping an Eye on Policy Contents
- 4.2.2.3 The ‘Others’: Inter-ministerial Co-ordination, the Subnational Level, and Parliament – Just Small Cogwheels within the German Part of the EES-PCN?
- 4.2.2.4 The Social Partners: German Social Dialogue Traditions and the Domestic Part of the EES-PCN – The Hare and the Hedgehog?
- 4.2.2.5 Interim Assessment: The German Part of the EES-PCN – De-centralisation as Process-Guiding Principle – ‘If it Works for Us it also Works for Brussels’
- 4.2.1 British Employment Policy Co-ordination: Integrated Leadership, Centralised Polity, ‘Trimmed Pluralism’, Few Veto Points, and the EES – ‘Strangers in the Night’?
- page 241–2704.1 The Supranational Part of the EES-PCN: Cards Re-Shuffled Revealing a New Integrated Approach?
- page 305–4125. Domestic Adaptation to the ‘Policy ID’ of the EES: Policy Transfer and Diffusion Leading to ?-Convergence in the UK and Germany?
- page 305–3565.1 British Employment Policies under the EES: Deviating from Beveridge, Thatcherite De-regulation, and Blatcherism while ‘Building Up’ Domestic Employment Policies?
- 5.1.1 The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of the EES’s ‘Policy ID’ into British Traditions?
- 5.1.1.1 ‘Building the Base’ in 1997/98: The ‘New Deal’ and the EES – Fraternal Twins See the Light of Day?
- 5.1.1.2 Further ‘Constructing the House’ in 1999: The Extension of the New Deals – Tending to All-embrace the Workforce
- 5.1.1.3 Taking Care of ‘Interior Fittings’ in 2000: Consolidating Domestic Policies in the Light of Good Performance
- 5.1.1.4 ‘Corralling the Plot’ and ‘Unshuttering the Windows’ in 2001: Defending and Fine-Tuning Policy Choices For a More Inclusive Labour Market
- 5.1.1.5 ‘Outbuilding the House’ and ‘Designing the Grounds’ in 2002: Keeping to the Domestic Approach and Adapting Structurally to Devolution
- 5.1.2 ‘Extending the Driveway’: Expanding Existing Policy Approaches under the Streamlined EES (2003-2005) – Europeanisation Impact Intensified or Blurred?
- 5.1.3 Interim Assessment: The EES’s Impact on British Employment Policy Priorities – Policy Transfer and Diffusion leading to ?-Convergence?
- 5.1.1 The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of the EES’s ‘Policy ID’ into British Traditions?
- page 356–4125.2 German Employment Policies under the EES: Deviating from the Bismarckian System, ORDO-Liberalism, ‘Global Guidance’, Neo-liberalist Monetarism, and the ‘Neue Mitte’ under the Burdens of Re-Unification?
- 5.2.1 The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of its ‘Policy ID’ into German Traditions?
- 5.2.1.1 Adapting the ‘Old Edifice’ to New Functions in 1998: The Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government’s Remedies and the First German NAP
- 5.2.1.2 ‘Tearing down Old Walls’ and ‘Building the Base’ in 1999: The ‘Neue Mitte’ and the Start of Its Socio-Economic Reforms
- 5.2.1.3 Cost Control to Continue Re-Construction in 2000: Laying the Budgetary Grounds for Further Socio-Economic Reforms
- 5.2.1.4 Waiting for the ‘Blueprint’ to be Designed in 2001: Evaluating Existing Approaches Instead of Launching New Activities
- 5.2.1.5 The Start of ‘Fast-Track Construction’ in 2002: Reform Boost after Years of ‘Dawdling over’ Substantial Modernisation
- 5.2.2 ‘Speeding up the Construction Process’: Post Reform Boost Trends under the Streamlined EES (2003-2005) – Europeanisation Impact Intensified or Blurred?
- 5.2.3 Interim Assessment: The EES’s Impact on German Employment Policy Priorities – Policy Transfer and Diffusion leading to ?-Convergence?
- 5.2.1 The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of its ‘Policy ID’ into German Traditions?
- page 305–3565.1 British Employment Policies under the EES: Deviating from Beveridge, Thatcherite De-regulation, and Blatcherism while ‘Building Up’ Domestic Employment Policies?
- page 413–4436. Final conclusions: Guiding Assumptions and Theses Re-visited
- page 413–4386.1 The EES’s Europeanisation Impact on the UK and Germany – ‘ Get Together’ or ‘ Mind the Gap’?
- 6.1.1 Europeanisation of British and German Policy Co-ordination Structures and the Supranational EES-PCN: Interactions Becoming an Integrated Approach?
- 6.1.1.1 The National Level: Domestic Institutional Paths and Interactions Running into the EES-PCN – Europeanisation Leading to Institutional Isomorphism?
- 6.1.1.2 The Impact of the EES on European Multilevel Policy Network Structures: A Lock, Stock, and Barrel New Performance or New Lyrics in Old Sceneries?
- 6.1.2 British and German Employment Policies under the EES: Proximity and Rapprochement to its ‘Policy ID’ – Converging Trends, Remaining Differences
- 6.1.1 Europeanisation of British and German Policy Co-ordination Structures and the Supranational EES-PCN: Interactions Becoming an Integrated Approach?
- page 438–4436.2 The Europeanisation Approach, the EES, and the OMC: Theoretico-Analytical Mission Accomplished?
- page 413–4386.1 The EES’s Europeanisation Impact on the UK and Germany – ‘ Get Together’ or ‘ Mind the Gap’?
- page 444–4487. Annex
- page 449–4878. References
- page 449–4498.1 Interviews
- page 449–4588.2 Sources
- page 458–4878.3 Literature