CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Glukhova, Daria |
|---|---|
| Title | TOWARDS MORE SUPRANATIONALISM OR LESS?: A Study on the Variation in European Integration Decision-Making Logics and Behavioural Norms |
| Summary | Distinctive features of European integration in the post-Maastricht period gave rise to ‘the new intergovernmentalism’ theory, which explains the extensive degree of integration without further transfers of competences to supranational institutions by the proliferation of deliberative and consensual behaviour among the EU national actors in intergovernmental settings. While evidence suggests that this is indeed the general trend, numerous departures from consensual behaviour exhibited by the Member States in the same time period indicate the need for further research to explain the variation in the integration process across policy areas. The thesis picks up on this call and analyses the factors that push the integration in one or another direction, putting forward a possible explanation for the deviations from the general trends of intensified policy coordination and avoidance of authority delegation to core supranational institutions of the EU. Both formal supranationalism as transfer of competences and the practice of supranational behavioural patterns are taken into account in the analysis, and two explanatory variables are proposed: issue linkage, based on the degree of existing institutionalisation of supranationalism, and perceived threat to the national security of a Member State. Based on the case studies of the EU energy policy and defence and security policy, the thesis concludes that European integration does not follow ‘new intergovernmental’ patterns consistently: in certain cases, issue linkage provides for an expansion of authority delegation to core supranational institutions, and in other cases, Member States’ perception of integration policies as infringing on national sovereignty and security results in a switch back to the logic of liberal intergovernmental behaviour of self-interested bargaining. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe; Lindstrom, Nicole |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/glukhova_daria.pdf |
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