Political time in the EU: Dimensions, perspectives, theories

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-201

  Goetz, Klaus H ^a   Meyer Sahling, Jan Hinrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EU; EU timescape; Legitimacy; Performance; Political time; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449095629     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760802589198     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Adam, B. (2008) Of Timescapes, Futurescapes and Timeprints. Paper presented at Lüneburg University, 17 June.
2. Agh, A. (2007) The New Life Cycles of the Council: The Incoming Presidencies of the New Member States. Paper presented at the CONSENT workshop 'The Temporality of Europeanization and Enlargement', University of Potsdam, 15 - 16 February 2007.
3. Avery, G. (2009) 'Uses of time in the EU's enlargement process', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 256-269.
4. Bulmer, S. (2009) ''Politics in time meets the politics of time: historical institudonalism and the EU timescape', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 270-285.
5. Checkel, J. (2006) 'Constructivism and EU polities', in K.E. Jørgensen et al. (eds), Handbook of European Union Politics, London: Sage, pp. 57-76.
6. Cole, A. (2002) ? strange affair: The 2002 presidential and parliamentary elections in France', Government and Opposition 37(3): 317-2,
7. Corbett, R., Jacobs, F. and Shackleton, M. (2007) The European Parliament, 7th edn, London: John Harper Publishing.
8. Cox, G. (2005) 'The organisation of democratic legislatures', in B. Weingast and D. W?ttman (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 141-61.
9. Curtin, D. and Egeberg, M. (2008) 'Tradition and innovation: Europe's accumulated executive order', West European Politics 31 (4).
10. Döring, H. (1995) 'Time as a scarce resource: government control of the agenda', in H. Döring (ed.), Parliaments and Majority Rule in Western Europe, Campus Verlag, pp. 223-246.
11. Döring, H. (2003) 'Party discipline and government imposition of restrictive rules'. Journal of Legislative Studies 9(4); 147-63.
12. Döring, H. (2004) 'Controversy, time constraint, and restrictive rules', in H. Döring and M. Hallerberg (eds), Patterns of Parliamentary Behaviour: Passage of Legislation across Western Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 141-68.
13. Drazen, A. (2001) 'The political business cycle after 25 years', MBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000.
14. Dyson, K. (2009) 'The evolving timescapes of eutopean economic governance: contesting and using time', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 286-306.
15. Egeberg, M. (ed.) (2006) Multilevel Union Administration: The Transformation of Executive Politics in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
16. Ekengren, M. (1996) 'The Europeanization of state administration: adding the time dimension', Cooperation and Conflict 31: 387-415.
17. Ekengren, M. (1997) 'The temporality of European governance', in K.E. Jørgensen (ed.), Reflective Approaches to European Governance, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 68-86.
18. Ekengren, M. (2002) The Time of European Governance, Manchester: Manchester University of Press.
19. Farrell, H. and Héritier, A. (2007) 'Co-decision and institutional change', West European Politics 30(2): 285-300.
20. Frye, T. (1997) ? politics of institutional choice: post-communist presidencies', Comparative Political Studies 30; 523-52.
21. Gilardi, F. (2002) 'Policy credibility and delegation to independent regulatory agencies: a comparative empirical analysis', Journal of European Public Policy 9(6): 873-93.
22. Goetz, K.H. (forthcoming) 'Time and differentiated integration', in K. Dyson and A. Sepos (eds), Whose Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
23. Goetz, K.H. (2009) ?ow does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 202-20.
24. Goetz, K.H. and Meyer-Sahling, J. (2008) 'The Europeanisation of domestic political systems', Living Reviews in European Governance, June. Coodin, C. (1998) 'Keeping political time: the rhythms of democracy', International Political Science Review 19(1): 39-54.
25. Graziano, P. and Vink, M.P. (eds) (2007) Europeanization: New Research Agendas, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
26. Hayes-Renshaw, F. and Wallace, H. (2006) The Council of Ministers, 2nd edn, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
27. Hér?tier, A. (2007) Explaining Institutional Change in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
28. Hérit?er, A. and Farrell, H. (2004) ?nterorganizational negotiation and intraotganizational power in shared decision making: early agreements under codecision and their impact on the European Parliament and Council', Comparative Political Studies 37(10): 1184-212.
29. Hix, S. (2002) 'Constitutional agenda-setting through discretion in rule interpretation: why the European Parliament won at Amsterdam', British Journal of Political Science 32(2): 259-80.
30. Hix, S. (2005) The Political System of the European Union, 2nd edn, London: Palgrave.
31. Hix, S. (2008) What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, Cambridge: Polity Press.
32. Jacobs, A.M. (2008) 'The politics of when: redistribution, investment and policy making for the long term', British journal of Political Science 38: 193-220.
33. Jerneck, M. (2000) 'Europeanization, territoriality and political time', Yearbook of European Studies 14: 27-49.
34. Jupille, J., Caporaso, J. and Checkel, J. (2003) 'Integrating institutions: rationalism, constructivism, and the study of die European Union', Comparative Political Studies 36: 7-40.
35. Kardasheva, R. (2008). The Power to Delay: Explaining the European Parliaments Influence in the Consultation Procedure. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, April 2008.
36. Kok Report (2004) Facing the Challenge: The Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment, Report from the High Level Group, chaired by Wim Kok, Brussels: European Communities. Available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/lisbon
37. Konig, T. (2007) 'Divergence or convergence? From ever-growing to ever-slowing European legislative decision making', European journal of Political Research 46: 417-44.
38. Kovats, L. (2009) 'Do elections set the pace? A quantitative assessment of the timing of European legislarion', journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 239-55.
39. Kydland, F.E. and Prescott, E.G. (1977) 'Rules rather than discretion: the inconsistency of optimal plans', Journal of Political Economy 85(3): 473-92.
40. Lass-Lennecke, K. and Werner, A. (2009) 'Policies, institutions and time: how the European Commission managed the temporal challenge of eastern enlargement', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 270-85.
41. Lijphart, A. (1999) Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
42. Lindner, J. (2006) Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics, London: Routledge.
43. Linz, J. (1998) 'Democracy's time constraints', International Political Science Review 19(1): 19-37.
44. Majone, G. (1997) 'From the positive to the regulator)' state: causes and consequences of changes in the mode of governance', journal of Public Policy 17(2): 139-68.
45. Martin, L.W. (2004) 'The government agenda in parliamentary democracies', American Journal of Political Science 48(3): 445-61.
46. McNamara, K. (2002) 'Rational fictions: central bank independence and the social logic of delegation', West European Politics 25(1): 47-76.
47. Menon, A. (2008) Europe: The State of the Union, London: Atlantic Books.
48. Meyer-Sahling, J.-H. (2007) Time and European Governance: An Inventory. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Montreal, May 2007.
49. Meyer-Sahling, J.-H, and Goetz, K.H. (2009) 'The EU timescape: from notion to research agenda'. Journal of European Public Policy 1.6(2): 325-36.
50. Nowotny, H. (1994) Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience, Cambridge; Polity Press.
51. Painter, M. and Peters, E.G. (eds) (2009, forthcoming) Administrative Traditions: Inheritances and Transplants in Comparative Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
52. Persson, T. and Tabellini, G. (2003) The Economic Effects of Constitutions, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
53. Pierson, P. (2004) Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
54. Pollack, M. (2006) 'Rational choice and EU polities', in K.E. Jørgensen et al, (eds), Handbook of European Onion Politics, London: Sage, pp. 31-56.
55. Pollitt, C. (2008) Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
56. Rasmussen, A. (2007a) 'Challenging the Commission's right of initiative? Conditions for institutional change and stability', West European Politics 30(2): 244-64.
57. Rasmussen, A. (2007b) Early Conclusion in the Co-decision Legislative Procedure, European University Institute, Max Weber Paper 2007/3.
58. Riescher, G. (1994) Zeit und Politik. Zur institutionellen Bedeutung von Zeitstrukturen in parlamentarischen und präsidentiellen Regierungssystemen, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
59. Riescher, G. (1997) 'Parlamentarische Zeitstrukturen zwischen geschichtlichen Traditionslinien und moderner Funkt?onal?tät', Zeitschrifl für Parlamentsfragen 44: 101-15.
60. Rittberger, B. (2000) 'Impatient legislators and new issue-dimensions: a critique of the Garrett-Tsebelis ''standard version" of legislative polities', Journal of European Public Policy 7{4): 554-75.
61. Schedler, A. and Santiso, J. (1998) 'Democracy and time: an invitation', International Political Science Review 19(1): 5-18.
62. Schmitter, P.C. (2004) 'Neo-neofunctionalism', in A. Wiener and T. Diez (eds), European Integration Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45-73.
63. Schmitter, P. and Santiso, J. (1998) 'Three temporal dimensions of the consolidation of democracy', International Political Science Review 19(1): 69-92.
64. Schneider, G. and Aspinwall, M. (2001) The Rules of Integration: Institutionalist Approaches to the Study of Europe, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
65. Shepsle, K. and We?ngast, B. (1987) 'The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power', American Political Science Review 81(1): 85-104.
66. Shugart, M.S. (1995) 'The electoral cycle and institutional sources of divided presidential government', American Political Science Review 89(2): 327-43,
67. Shugart, M.S. and Carey, J. (1992) Presidents and Assemblies. Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
68. Stone Sweet, A., Fl?gste?n, N. and Sandholtz, W. (2001) 'The ?nstitutional?zat?on of European Space', in A. Stone Sweet et al. (eds), The Institutionalìzatìon of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-28.
69. Strøm, K., Miiller, W.C. and Bergman, T. (eds) (2003) Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
70. Thatcher, M. and Stone-Sweet, A. (2002) 'Delegation to independent regulatory agencies: pressures, functions and contextual mediation', West European Politics
71. Tholoniat, L. (2009) 'The temporal constitution of the European Commission: a timely investigation', Journal of European Public Policy 16(2): 221-38.
72. Tsebelis, G. (2002) Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
73. Zubek, R. (2008) Parliamentary Executives and Legislative Time. Paper presented at PSA Annual Conference, Swansea, UK, 1-3 April 2008,
74. Zubek, R., Goetz, K.H. and Lodge, M, (2007) Legislative Planning in Central Europe: Towards Strategic Management of Government Legislation, London: LSE, Central European Observatory.