Fabio Franchino, Camilla Mariotto

Balancing Pressures

The Politics of Governing the European Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Balancing Pressures analyses how the economy, national politics, and supranational politics shape economic policymaking in the European Union. Economic theories alert policymakers of the problems associated with policy initiatives. Economic uncertainties shape political positioning during negotiations, while actual economic conditions affect both negotiations and implementation. National pressures to win office and pursue policies systematically influence negotiating positions, implementation patterns, and outcomes. Supranational pressures are associated with membership in the euro area, the expected and actual patterns of compliance, or the context of negotiations. Spanning the period of 1994 to 2019, this book analyses how these pressures shaped the definition of the policy problems, the controversies surrounding policy reforms, the outcome, timing, and direction of reforms, the negotiations over preventive surveillance, the compliance with recommendations, and the use and effectiveness of the procedure to correct excessive fiscal deficits. It concludes by assessing the effectiveness, fairness, and responsiveness of the policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009595810
• ISBN-10: 1009595814
• Artikelnr.: 72186931

Autorenporträt

Fabio Franchino is Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He has published extensively on legislative and executive politics, especially in the European Union. He is the author of The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU (2007) which won the best book EUSA award. He has been the president of the European Political Science Association and co-editor of the Italian Political Science Review. He is currently an associate editor of European Union Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Governing the European economy as balancing pressures; Part I. Defining
the Policy Problem: 2. The subtle influence of ideas: austerity needs no
rules; Part II. Negotiating and Designing Economic Governance: 3. The
battle lines: noncompliance risk, asymmetric power, and enforcement; 4.
Compromises, procedures, and the costs of failure; 5. Governance design
under uncertainty, threats, and politicisation; Part III. Implementing
Economic Governance: 6. Supranational bargaining, credibility, and
preventive surveillance; 7. Navigating the pressures of preventive
compliance; 8. Causes and consequences of overseeing fiscal deficits; 9.
Effectiveness, fairness, and responsiveness.