Effects of EU soft law across the multilevel system

欧盟软法对多层次体系的影响

• 批准号: 411037244
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/411037244?language=en
• 关键词: Effects; EU; soft; law; across

This project aims to advance understanding of the performance of the EU multilevel system through a longitudinal analysis of the nature and effect of soft law, beyond a crisis-centred research puzzle. EU law affects governments and populations and has direct influence on the lives of citizens. With the governance turn and ever more complex decision-making in Brussels legislation takes increasingly often the form of soft law. The term captures instruments such as recommendations, guidelines or communications that do not entail jurisdictional control, but produce important legal and practical effects. Yet, we still know relatively little why member states and EU institutions chose either soft or hard law to govern. What is the proportion of EU soft law in different policy areas? When and why is EU soft law implemented at domestic level? Once implemented, when and why does it feed back into EU policy-making? Employing lenses of contemporary legal scholarship on soft law and political science insights on public policy analysis, this project investigates whether, and if so when, why and how soft law affects the performance of the EU multilevel system.The project is important because it addresses a central topic of political systems, namely the relationship between law and politics. In delivering a systematic, comparative and longitudinal assessment of the nature and effects of this soft law, the project goes beyond existing accounts that either optimistically stipulate the potential of soft law for effective policy making or pessimistically point at its narrow legal relevance, the creation of uncertainties and lack of accountability often based on static accounts of a legal phenomenon.The project is original in that it will analytically distinguish hard and soft law in light of two elements: the binding nature of the norm and the enforcement mechanism that ensures compliance with the norm. To our knowledge, this project will be the first to also causally analyse the effects of soft law across policy sectors and countries, including dynamic feedback into EU policy-making.The project is ambitious in its scope and design. First, it will assess the nature of EU soft law through a complete inventory of EU level instruments adopted in eight policy domains that differ in the character of EU policy-making and in the nature of the underlying policy-problem, over a 15 year period. Second, it will analyse the effect of sectoral and country specific factors on the implementation of EU soft law through a survey in central administrations and courts as well as causal analysis and structured focused comparison of 64 domestic implementation processes. Third, it will investigate the feedback effects of soft law implementation at supranational level. Finally, the project makes it possible to employ a multidisciplinary perspective and country expertise by combining a team of German and French political science and legal scholars.

该项目旨在通过对软法的性质和影响的纵向分析，超越以危机为中心的研究难题，促进对欧盟多层次体系绩效的理解。欧盟法律影响政府和民众，并对公民的生活产生直接影响。随着布鲁塞尔的治理转向和越来越复杂的决策，立法越来越多地采取软法的形式。这一术语包括不涉及管辖权控制但产生重要法律和实际影响的建议、准则或通讯等文书。然而，我们对成员国和欧盟机构为何选择软法或硬法进行治理仍知之甚少。欧盟软法在不同政策领域的比例是多少？欧盟软法何时以及为何在国内实施？一旦实施，它何时以及为什么会反馈到欧盟的政策制定中？采用软法律和公共政策分析的政治学见解当代法律奖学金的镜头，该项目调查是否，如果是，何时，为什么以及如何软法律影响欧盟多层次系统的性能。该项目很重要，因为它解决了政治制度的中心主题，即法律与政治之间的关系。在对这一软法律的性质和影响进行系统的、比较的和纵向的评估时，该项目超越了现有的描述，这些描述要么乐观地规定了软法律在有效政策制定方面的潜力，要么悲观地指出其狭隘的法律相关性、不确定性的产生和缺乏问责制，通常是基于对法律现象的静态描述。该项目具有独创性，因为它将根据两个要素分析区分硬法和软法：规范的约束性和确保遵守规范的执行机制。据我们所知，该项目将是第一个对软法在政策部门和国家之间的影响进行因果分析的项目，包括对欧盟政策制定的动态反馈。这个项目在范围和设计上都是雄心勃勃的。首先，它将通过在八个政策领域中采用的欧盟层面工具的完整清单来评估欧盟软法的性质，这些政策领域在欧盟政策制定的特征和潜在政策问题的性质上有所不同，为期15年。其次，它将通过对中央行政部门和法院的调查，以及对64个国内实施过程的因果分析和结构化重点比较，分析部门和国家特定因素对欧盟软法实施的影响。第三，探讨超国家层面软法实施的反馈效应。最后，通过将德国和法国的政治科学和法律学者组成的团队结合起来，该项目使运用多学科观点和国家专门知识成为可能。