Gaby Umbach, The EES, the OMC, and Europeanisation: Impact without Analytical Grounds or a Case of ‘Phantom’ Adaptation Pressure? in:
Intent and Reality of the European Employment Strategy , page 438 - 441
Europeanisation of National Employment Policies and Policy-Making?
- doi.org/10.5771/9783845212470
- ISBN print: 978-3-8329-4128-4
- ISBN online: 978-3-8452-1247-0
- Nomos, Baden-Baden
Zusammenfassung
Mit ihren spezifischen Merkmalen als neues Politikinstrument – wie etwa ihrem rechtlich nicht bindenden Charakter, dem Ziel des gegenseitigen Politiklernens durch Austausch bester Praktiken oder gemeinsamen Evaluierungsprozessen – stellt die Europäische Beschäftigungsstrategie (EBS) und die mit ihr Anwendung findende Offene Methode der Koordinierung (OMK) beschäftigungspolitische Akteure in der EU vor die neuen Herausforderungen von Politik-Koordinierung, die die Politikgestaltung im europäischen Mehrebenensystem neu prägen.
Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich intensiv mit diesen unterschiedlichen Facetten der EBS und ihrer Wirkung. Es geht dabei über bisherige Einzelstudien zur EBS hinaus und befasst sich nicht nur mit deren Entstehung, Entwicklung und Merkmalen. Es kontrastiert vielmehr den eigenen Anspruch der EBS mit ihrer politischen Realität und untersucht theoretisch hoch reflektiert deren Einfluss auf Politik-Koordinierungsstrukturen, Beschäftigungspolitiken und zugrunde liegenden Ideen sowie deren Zusammenspiel mit anderen wirtschaftspolitischen Bereichen. Neben der EU-Ebene dienen Großbritannien und Deutschland als Fallbeispiele für mitgliedstaatliche Anpassungsprozesse. Das Buch verankert seine Wirkungsanalyse sehr fundiert in der wissenschaftstheoretischen Debatte um Europäisierung und Politikkonvergenz, um deren Anwendbarkeit im Falle der EBS kritisch zu analysieren. Es komplettiert damit Europäisierungsstudien zu regulativer Politik durch die Analyse des Einflusses weicher Politik-Koordinierung im europäischen Mehrebenensystem.
- 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
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