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{"title":"Money Makes the World Go Round: How Much Difference Do Recovery and Resilience Plans Make to EU Reform Governance?","authors":"Joan Miró, Marcello Natili, Waltraud Schelkle","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13558","url":null,"abstract":"The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, the article advances a conception of the EU as a compound polity that needs to reconcile dispersed authority with second-order loyalty. We then contrast our theoretical expectations with traditional reform surveillance and experimentalist governance theories. The drafting of Recovery and Resilience Plans for Italy and Spain provides the empirical basis for assessing these expectations. The analysis shows a dual effect: adding fiscal capacity to the European Semester enhances the Commission's hierarchical power whilst the need to ensure member states' loyalty leaves room for national executives to insist on their priorities.","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU","authors":"Nicola Bazoli, Carlo Fiorio, Sonia Marzadro, Jonathan Pycroft, Loris Vergolini","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13557","url":null,"abstract":"After four decades of increasing within-country income inequality in many EU Member States, this study first aims to understand to what extent and how EU Member States make use of distributional impact assessments (DIAs) for budgetary measures. The second aim is to understand the factors that constrain the use of DIA, leading us to propose strategies for how it could be used more widely. To these ends, we perform a desk-based study of the documents produced in the national budgeting process, which is then followed up with structured key informant interviews with those responsible for producing key budgetary documents in each of the 27 Member States of the EU. We then detail the constraints to performing more DIAs and potential solutions involving actions at both the country and EU levels. This study constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of DIA practices across the EU.","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mechanisms of the Effect of Individual Education on Pro-European Dispositions","authors":"Juan J. Fernández,&nbsp;Céline Teney,&nbsp;Juan Díez Medrano","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13560","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A burgeoning empirical literature on attitudes towards Europe shows that highly educated individuals are more likely to hold pro-European dispositions than non-highly educated individuals. The literature provides structural and cultural accounts for this relationship. The structural account highlights that formal education contributes to earning higher incomes and attaining an upper-class occupation, which are conducive to pro-European dispositions. The cultural account instead highlights that formal education instils universalist and non-traditionalist values in individuals, which are conducive to pro-European dispositions. This is the first article to assess the relative predictive power of these two approaches. Using structural equation models, Rounds 8–10 of the European Social Survey and three indicators of pro-European dispositions, this article examines whether socio-economic location measured by income and upper-class occupation or commitment to human values measured by universalism and traditionalism mediates this association. All in all, the structural approach receives stronger support than the cultural one.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 5","pages":"1119-1140"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A European Public Sphere United by Football: A Comparative Quantitative Text Analysis of German, Norwegian, Polish and Spanish Football Media","authors":"Jonas Biel, Tobias Finger, Arne Niemann, Vincent Reinke, Radosław Kossakowski, Jens Jungblut, Dobrosław Mańkowski, Ramón Llopis‐Goig","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13559","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ability of the European community to respond to the multiple crises threatening the European Union and Europe depends in part on citizens' shared European identity giving legitimacy and support to communal action. Men's elite European club football is an example of a cultural practice that is highly Europeanised, reaches diverse audiences and is a known carrier of collective identities. This article examines the emergence of a European public football sphere through the convergence of football coverage across national media spaces, serving as a foundation for European identity constructions. It connects the concept of a European public sphere to the Europeanisation and mediatisation of football and its potential effects on European identity formation. Results indicate a convergence of football coverage around high‐profile and high‐status aspects of European football, creating a strongly aligned, homogenous but exclusive European public football sphere that leaves many parts of Europe on the sidelines.","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136068824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges","authors":"Luis Bouza García,&nbsp;Alvaro Oleart","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13548","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13548","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing influence of social media platforms, and the disinformation that circulates in them, has transformed the public spheres. How to deal with disinformation is an open normative, empirical and political question in contemporary democracies. In this article, we outline an agenda on the institutional strategies pursued in the European Union (EU), the normative understandings of the public sphere that such strategies imply, and the analytical challenges to undertake this line of inquiry. We argue that there is an emerging competition in the EU field of disinformation – constructed by actors coming from different pre-existing fields, such as journalism or foreign policy – not only to define what is ‘true’ from what is ‘fake’, but also to determine the sort of the public sphere and democracy we ought to strive for. This perspective allows us to anticipate which actors might be empowered (or disempowered) depending on how disinformation is addressed in regulatory terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 5","pages":"1395-1407"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13548","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Powers of the Presidency of the Council of the EU to Shape the Rule of Law Enforcement Agenda: The Article 7 Case","authors":"Gisela Hernández","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13551","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on enforcing compliance with the European Union's (EU's) rule of law value has focused on the roles of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the EU. However, the Council of the EU has attracted less attention. Existing scholarship has convincingly established that the rotating Presidency can crucially influence the functioning of the Council, and, accordingly, this paper examines the discretionary impact the Presidencies have towards Art.7 procedures. Drawing on official documents and statements, this paper compares how the various Presidencies from 2018 to 2022 have used their privileged position on the Council's agenda to decide whether to move forward with hearings. In doing so, they selected appropriate agenda-shaping strategies, shaped the Commission's perceived opportunities to exercise its agenda prerogatives, avoided compromises on the trios' agendas and, sometimes, benefited from not dealing with Art.7 to pursue other agenda priorities. The Presidency's wide room for manoeuvre hinders the Council's activity in scrutinising backsliding governments.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 5","pages":"1159-1176"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13551","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135462212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Latest developments in Social Europe: Promising steps in need for future monitoring","authors":"Beatrice Carella","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13556","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13556","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;After 2 years of dealing with the social consequences of the pandemic, European citizens and policy-makers entered 2022 with glimpses of hope regarding the prospects for economic, labour market and social recovery. Despite cross-country and within-country variation, the real output in the European Union (EU) had returned to its 2019 level by 2021. By spring of the same year, the average EU unemployment rate had reached January 2019 levels. Then, less than 2 months into the New Year, the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought war on the EU borders, altering previous patterns of recovery and established policy agendas. At the social level, the most relevant implication experienced by European citizens was the deepening of the inflationary trends that had started manifesting in 2021, which turned into a cost-of-living crisis over the course of 2022. While the actual impact of this further shock will be assessed fully in the coming years, the insecurity and precariousness that characterized the most vulnerable social groups revealed once again the existing gaps within welfare states and social protection systems from the local level to the supranational level.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly to what happened after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the responses by national policy-makers were swift and largely in the form of compensatory measures. The EU contributed to the financial effort by allowing member states to redirect recovery funds to finance emergency social protection schemes at the national level through the Temporary Crisis Framework enacted in March 2022. The other two main axes of intervention by EU institutions involved the European Central Bank's maneuvers to mitigate inflation, by starting to raise interest rates in July 2022 for the first time since 2011, and the granting of temporary protection to people fleeing Ukraine. The latter was among the first decisions undertaken at the EU level in response to the war, which gave refugees access to key rights, including entitlement to welfare benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Concurrently to the immediate reactions to the war and cost-of-living crisis, the EU social policy agenda maintained the path of expansion and strengthening initiated in the previous years. Significant policy milestones were reached in 2022, whose potential benefits resonated even more in the midst of an inflationary context, as it was the case, notably, of the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. However, the recent social policy developments need to be analysed as part of a broader process of re-orientation of the European social dimension, undoubtedly characterized in recent years by significant new impetus. While the latest advancements have been encouraging, the full extent of this new period of expansion will need to be monitored closely and evaluated over the coming years. The article proceeds as follows. The first section illustrates the main aspects of the social consequences of inflation during 2022. The second section analyses the ","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"61 S1","pages":"125-135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13556","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135644136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union","authors":"Marcel Hanegraaff,&nbsp;Arlo Poletti,&nbsp;Emile Van Ommeren","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13520","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13520","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our understanding of the role of firms in the making of European Union (EU) trade policy remains partial. This article contributes to expanding this literature by investigating under what conditions we observe more firm-centric lobbying, compared to business associational lobbying, in EU trade policy. We advance the arguments that firm-centric political lobbying in EU trade policy-making is a function of both industry and country-level characteristics. Relying on an original dataset of lobbying contacts with the EU Trade Commissioner, his or her cabinet members and the Director-General between 2014 and 2018, we find that the likelihood of firm-centric lobbying increases in (1) EU industries displaying high levels of multinational corporations' activity, global sourcing of intermediates and product differentiation and (2) countries characterized as liberal market economies. Besides showing that firm-centric models of trade travel well in the EU context, we contribute to advancing the understanding of how domestic political institutions affect the politics of trade.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 3","pages":"629-652"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13520","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance","authors":"Teresa Lappe-Osthege","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13519","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13519","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on EU policy effectiveness focuses on implementation and compliance within the EU; however, there is a need for a greater understanding of how and why transboundary socio-ecological issues challenge policy effectiveness beyond the EU's borders. This article introduces the innovative concept of ‘ripple effects’ of compliance, which are harms perpetuated by structural inequalities, and discusses their implications for EU environmental governance. Contributing to transnational compliance research by integrating political ecology and green criminology, the analysis builds on qualitative data on the illegal bird trade from the Western Balkans into the EU. It demonstrates that compliance with conservation policies within Member States undermines EU policy objectives through crime displacement and institutional misfit, which externalise environmental harm to the Western Balkans. Increased enforcement and monitoring of policy implementation alone cannot function as a panacea for policy <i>in</i>effectiveness. Addressing these dynamics requires strengthened multilevel and cross-jurisdictional governance that encompasses entire ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 3","pages":"653-670"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13519","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135695673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Spoonful of Sugar: Deference at the Court of Justice","authors":"Lucía López Zurita,&nbsp;Stein Arne Brekke","doi":"10.1111/jcms.13547","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcms.13547","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the European Court of Justice's strategic use of deference as a resilience technique in the preliminary reference procedure. It focuses on the strategic potential of using deference in two scenarios: first, when the Court uses teleological interpretation or expands the scope of the EU legal order and, second, when it declares national measures incompatible with EU law. The findings indicate that the Court is more likely to use deference when expanding EU law and less likely to defer when it declares national measures incompatible with EU law. The article challenges commonly held assumptions regarding the use of deference. First, the findings substantially qualify accounts linking the increase of deference to the maturity of the EU legal order and a certain halt of judicial activism. Deference allows the Court to explore new frontiers of EU law, suggesting that although the legal order might have matured, the Court does not perceive the project of legal integration as completed. Second, the article defies claims that deference is used by the Court as a ‘weapon of restraint’.</p>","PeriodicalId":51369,"journal":{"name":"Jcms-Journal of Common Market Studies","volume":"62 5","pages":"1177-1203"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcms.13547","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135458366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}