Resistance to Policy Change in the European Union. An actor-centered perspective
This article deals with the expanding research agenda focused on the various forms of (active or passive) resistance to policy change when it is perceived as a result of European integration. While taking stock of existing research on Euroscepticism, social movements, Europeanization and non-compliance, the paper seeks to go beyond its limitations and proposes a broader analytical framework. In a perspective centered on the conflicts that drive agency, this framework shall serve to study resistance to policy change in the EU in three constitutive dimensions: its causes, its forms and its effects. To study the causes of resistance, we suggest paying more attention to the nature of policy change and how such change is perceived and framed by agency. This allows us to formulate three hypotheses: a ?proportionality hypothesis?, a ?positive-negative integration hypothesis?, and a ?disposition hypothesis?. As far as the forms of resistance are concerned, we argue that knowledge of the type of instruments used by resisting agents is crucial to understand the effects of resistance at the different stages of the policy cycle, from agenda setting to evaluation.
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2014-03-01
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Authors: | Crespy, Amandine ; Saurugger, Sabine |
Institutions: | Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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