LOPEZ-SANTANA, Mariely
The domestic implications of European soft law : framing and transmitting change in employment policy - New York, NY : Routledge, June 2006
The Treaty of Amsterdam launched the European Employment Strategy, a supranational non-binding instrument to boost employment rates and competitiveness. The open method of coordination, a new governance regulatory instrument, rules this common strategy. The article argues that the framing effect of soft law is significant to policy-making across states, especially in the case of policy formulation. The analysis is grounded in the argument that to understand the effect of foreign non-binding governance instruments researchers studying these types of governance instruments should unpack the black box of policy-making and focus on process. Specifically, the article contributes to the literature on Europeanization by studying an instance of soft Europeanization. To sustain and illustrate my argument, I present data from interviews conducted in the European Union, in Sweden, Spain, and Belgium at the national and subnational levels.
Bélgica
Employment policy
Open method of coordination
Soft Europeanization
Spain
Sweden
The domestic implications of European soft law : framing and transmitting change in employment policy - New York, NY : Routledge, June 2006
The Treaty of Amsterdam launched the European Employment Strategy, a supranational non-binding instrument to boost employment rates and competitiveness. The open method of coordination, a new governance regulatory instrument, rules this common strategy. The article argues that the framing effect of soft law is significant to policy-making across states, especially in the case of policy formulation. The analysis is grounded in the argument that to understand the effect of foreign non-binding governance instruments researchers studying these types of governance instruments should unpack the black box of policy-making and focus on process. Specifically, the article contributes to the literature on Europeanization by studying an instance of soft Europeanization. To sustain and illustrate my argument, I present data from interviews conducted in the European Union, in Sweden, Spain, and Belgium at the national and subnational levels.
Bélgica
Employment policy
Open method of coordination
Soft Europeanization
Spain
Sweden
