CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Nyircsák, Adrienn |
|---|---|
| Title | Meta-theoretical considerations on the Europeanization of public spheres: exploring the "governance effect" through the concept of instrumentation |
| Summary | This thesis aims to reveal that new institutionalist accounts of Europeanization are inhibited by their incapacity to grasp particular normative and cognitive effects of the unfolding ideal of European governance in domains of public policy. The present work is an attempt to offer ways to spell out alternative conceptual pathways which connect the emergence of new modes, logics and understandings of governance with specific mechanisms of Europeanization. The thesis explores the capacities of the policy instruments perspective to trace the “governance effect”. Following the presentation and analysis of constructivist and critical approaches to instrumentation as a mechanism of Europeanization, the paper provides an illustration for both research agendas through the example of quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area. The thesis concludes that the study of instrumentation has the potential to open the way for the systematic consideration of approaches to governance both from an analytical and a theoretical perspective. Instrumentation is demonstrated to generate particular effects which play an important role in making Europe “governable”. |
| Supervisor | Marie-Pierre Granger |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/nyircsak_adrienn.pdf |
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