Reconfiguring EU I: Capacity building in the EU political system, its drivers and limits

Abstract

Crises, shocks, and unforeseen events present EU governments with a dual challenge. On one hand, they need to increase problem-solving competence to better cope with the challenge. On the other hand, they need to increase control over problem-solving in order to minimize their maximal loss. Both impulses pull in opposite directions. The search for better problem-solving fuels demand for more EU competence in order to better use the advantages of transnational governance scale. The search for control, by contrast, fuels demand for renationalization in order to keep policy making in the domestic realm. This panel focuses on how these demands shape the EU’s capacities to solve problems. It unites papers that investigate the maintenance and building of capacities, factors that drive their development as well as limitations on EU capacities. And it theorizes effects in terms of overall system reconfiguration.

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