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Public Responsibility Attribution in the European Union

欧盟的公共责任归属

基本信息

批准号：
391007015
负责人：
Professor Dr. Berthold Rittberger
金额：
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依托单位：
Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391007015?language=en
关键词：
Public Responsibility Attribution European Union

项目摘要

For democratic polities to command legitimacy, it is essential that the political actors responsible for certain policies can be held publicly accountable. Holding policy-makers accountable presupposes that responsibility for policies can be attributed to particular and identifiable political actors. While even in democratic states the attribution of responsibility for any given policy is hardly ever straightforward, we know relatively little on how the public attributes responsibility for the policies adopted by the European Union (EU). In some cases (such as the failure of the EU to devise an effective border control regime) the public attributes responsibility predominantly to EU institutions; in other cases (such as the failed redistribution of refugees among EU members) the public attributes responsibility mainly to EU member states. And in still other cases (such as the so-called welfare-migration facilitated by the EU principle of freedom of movement) public responsibility attributions remain more or less untargeted. Especially when the effectiveness of policies is in question, the public attribution of political responsibility becomes a pressing issue: To whom does the European public attribute political responsibility? When is responsibility predominantly attributed to actors at the member state level, when are attributions primarily targeted at actors at the EU level, and when are attributions untargeted? By answering these questions, the project aims at improving our understanding of public responsibility attributions (PRAs) for policies enacted by the EU. To this end, we will analyze PRAs by means of media content analysis of the coverage of three different sets of EU policies in the European quality press: (1) environmental policies, (2) financial policies, as well as (3) migration policies. To explain variation in PRAs across cases we suggest (as a theoretical point of departure) that the structure of EU policy-making as well as the structure of EU policy implementation shape how the public attributes responsibility for EU policies.

为了让民主政体具有合法性，对某些政策负有责任的政治行为者能够被公开问责是至关重要的。让政策制定者承担责任的前提是，对政策的责任可以归因于特定和可识别的政治行为者。尽管即使在民主国家，任何一项政策的责任归属也很难一目了然，但我们对公众如何为欧洲联盟(欧盟)采取的政策承担责任知之甚少。在某些情况下(例如欧盟未能设计出有效的边境控制制度)，公众将责任主要归于欧盟机构；在其他情况下(例如难民在欧盟成员国之间的重新分配失败)，公众将责任主要归于欧盟成员国。在其他情况下(例如，欧盟行动自由原则促成的所谓福利移民)，公共责任归属仍然或多或少没有针对性。尤其是当政策的有效性受到质疑时，公众对政治责任的归属成为一个紧迫的问题：欧洲公众将政治责任归于谁？何时责任主要归于成员国一级的行为者，何时归属主要针对欧盟一级的行为者，以及何时归属不具有针对性？通过回答这些问题，该项目旨在提高我们对欧盟颁布的政策的公共责任归属(PRA)的理解。为此，我们将通过媒体内容分析欧洲质量媒体对三套不同欧盟政策的报道来分析PRA：(1)环境政策，(2)金融政策，以及(3)移民政策。为了解释PRA在不同案例中的差异，我们建议(作为理论起点)，欧盟政策制定的结构以及欧盟政策执行的结构塑造了公众对欧盟政策的责任归属。