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The EU Timescape

176 Pages

by Routledge

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by Routledge

176 Pages

by Routledge

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The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This book... Read more

1. Political time in the EU: dimensions, perspectives, theories
Klaus H. Goetz and Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

2. How does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time
Klaus H. Goetz

3. The temporal constitution of the European Commission: a timely investigation
Luc Tholoniat

4. Do elections set the pace? A quantitative assessment of the timing of European legislation.
Laszlo Kovats

5. Uses of time in the EU’s enlargement process.
Graham Avery

6. Policies, institutions and time: how the European Commission managed the temporal challenge of eastern enlargement.
Katja Lass-Lennecke and Annika Werner

7. The evolving timescapes of European economic governance: contesting and using time.
Kenneth Dyson

8. Politics in Time meets the politics of time: historical institutionalism and the EU timescape.
Simon Bulmer

9. The EU timescape: from notion to research agenda.
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling and Klaus H. Goetz