The Politics of Time: The Temporality of EU Enlargement and Europeanisation

时间政治是理解现代治理的核心，但它们很少成为系统研究的主题。时间政治关注的是构建制度和政策发展的时间、时机和克里思的规则;以及用于执行这些规则的时间管理工具，如日历、时间表或路线图。本项目旨在推进我们对这一现象的经验、概念和理论理解。从经验上讲，该项目分析了与欧盟最近和未来扩大有关的时间政治，这对多层次同步提出了特殊挑战。这项研究是基于一个比较设计（一）跨层次的决策：欧盟（扩大），国内（欧洲化），和部门（过渡减损）;（二）跨国家：波兰和斯洛伐克（第一次GEE扩大）;保加利亚（第二次GEE扩大）;和土耳其;和（三）追溯时间从20世纪90年代初到2008/9年的政治。从概念上讲，该项目的目标是完善时间分析的关键术语，使其易于操作;制定时间规则和时间管理设备的概念图;并指定欧盟治理中的时间政治属性。从理论上讲，这些项目旨在解释欧盟治理环境中多层次联系和制度变迁特定条件下时间规则和相关时间治理装置的演变。在这样做的过程中，它为现代治理的时间性研究做出了重大贡献。

The politics of time are central to understanding modern governance, yet they have rarely been the subject of systematic enquiry. The politics of time are concerned with rules that structure the time, timing and tempo of institutional and policy development; and temporal governing devices - such as calendars, timetables, or roadmaps - that are employed to enforce such rules. The present project is designed to advance our empirical, conceptual and theoretical understanding of this phenomenon. Empirically, the project analyses the politics of time in relation to recent and prospective enlargements of the European Union, which posed special challenges of multi-level synchronisation. This research is based on a comparative design (i) across levels of decision-taking: EU (enlargement), domestic (Europeanisation), and sectoral (transitional derogations); (ii) across countries: Poland and Slovakia (first GEE enlargement); Bulgaria (second GEE enlargement); and Turkey; and (iii) traces the politics of time from the early 1990s to 2008/9. Conceptually, the project aims to refine key terms in temporal analysis so as to make them readily operationalisable; to develop conceptual maps of temporal rules and of temporal governing devices; and to specify the properties of the politics of time in EU governance. Theoretically, the projects seeks to explain the evolution of temporal rules and related temporal governing devices under the specific conditions of multilevel linkage and institutional flux which characterise the EU governance setting. In so doing, it makes a major contribution to the study of the temporality of modern governance.