The domestic implications of European soft law : framing and transmitting change in employment policy
By: LOPEZ-SANTANA, Mariely
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ArticlePublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, June 2006Subject(s): Bélgica | Employment policy | Open method of coordination | Soft Europeanization | Spain | SwedenJournal of European Public Policy 13, 4, p. 481 - 499 Abstract: 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.
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.
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