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.

欧洲联盟（欧盟）面临着在重大政策领域采取行动的迫切要求，因为超国家治理已经公开化。我们的跨学科项目旨在通过增加对特定政策领域欧盟一体化的意愿和能力的了解来解释和促进响应和有效的政策改革。我们研究的条件下，欧盟机构寻求增加或减少欧盟的政策能力，当他们的立场，以回应公众的要求跨越和内部成员国，并在什么条件下，每个机构管理，以维护自己的立场，在thepolicy决策过程。我们进一步研究了机构的立场和能力，以引导欧洲一体化的过程中跨政策领域的重塑，增加欧盟政治化和相关的转变，在机构身份，内部不团结和切换从正式的政治到非正式的technocratic程序的决策。来自欧洲和各国议会的民意调查、政党宣言和演讲数据将有助于捕捉公民、政党和政府对跨政策领域从国家层面向欧盟层面转移权限的偏好。然后，我们将研究在什么条件下，在何种程度上这些偏好决定欧盟机构的立场，政策建议和通过的立法方面的能力转移到欧盟的水平，usingcut-edge方法计算文本分析。这些研究结果将有助于制定有关政策和制度设计创新的建议，以应对紧迫的挑战，并在成员国及其公民中获得公众的认可。