EUINACTION: Willingness and Capacity for EU Policy Action in Times of Crises: Conflicts, Positions and Outcomes

EUINACTION：危机时期欧盟政策行动的意愿和能力：冲突、立场和结果

• 批准号: ES/XX00053/1
• 负责人: Nikoleta Yordanova
• 金额: $ 49.63万
• 依托单位: Leiden University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FXX00053%2F1
• 关键词: EUINACTION; Willingness; Capacity; EU; Policy

The European Union (EU) faces pressing demands to act in major policy areas amid publiccontestation of supranational governance. Our interdisciplinary project seeks to explain and facilitateresponsive and effective policy reforms by increasing knowledge about the willingness and capacity forEU integration in specific policy areas. We study the conditions under which the EU institutions seek toincrease or decrease EU policy competencies, when their positions respond to public demands across andwithin member states, and under what conditions each institution manages to assert its position in thepolicy-making processes. We further investigate how the institutions’ positions and capacity to steer thecourse of European integration across policy areas are reshaped by increased EU politicization andassociated shifts in institutional identities, internal disunity and switch from formal political to informaltechnocratic procedures of policy-making. Public opinion surveys, party manifestos and speech data fromEuropean and national parliaments will serve to capture citizen, party and government preferences overthe transfer of competences from the national to the EU level across policy areas. We will then examineunder what conditions and to what extent these preferences determine the positions of EU institutions,policy proposals and adopted legislation with respect to the level of competence transfer to the EU, usingcutting-edge methods for computational text analysis. These findings will serve to developrecommendations about innovation in policy and institutional design that can address pressing challengesand enjoy public acceptance in member states and among their citizens.

欧盟（EU）面临着在超国家治理的公共事件中，迫切要求在主要政策领域采取行动。我们的跨学科项目试图通过增加对特定政策领域的意愿和能力融合的知识来解释和促进响应式和有效的政策改革。我们研究了欧盟机构寻求提高或降低欧盟政策能力的条件，当他们的立场对整个和within成员国的公共需求做出反应，以及在哪些条件下，每个机构都设法在政策制定过程中主张其立场。我们进一步调查了机构在政策领域中窃取欧洲一体化进程的立场和能力如何通过欧盟政治身份，内部不团结以及从正式的政治政治到非正式的技术核对政策制定程序的转变来重塑。欧洲和国家议会的公众舆论调查，政党宣言和言语数据将有助于捕捉公民，政党和政府对跨政策领域从国民转移到欧盟一级的偏好。然后，我们将使用用于计算文本分析的最先进的方法，在什么条件下以及这些偏好决定欧盟机构，政策提案和采用立法的立法。这些发现将有助于建立有关政策和机构设计创新的预言，以应对紧迫的挑战，并在成员国及其公民中享受公众接受。