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Arthur Benz, Adrienne Héritier - Balancing Institutional Power in European Policymaking, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Balancing Institutional Power in European Policymaking

Av Arthur Benz, Adrienne Héritier

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Since the EU has been confronted with multiple crises, scholars have debated the consequences from the viewpoint of integration, disintegration, or differentiated integration. This book takes a different perspective. Rather than focusing on macro-structures, it highlights the ongoing contestation and balancing of power in everyday policymaking. These processes lead to incremental, often hidden informal institutional change rather than overall Treaty amendments. They unfold in European legislation under the Community Method, in intergovernmental politics, administrative policymaking, and court proceedings and often link all these venues. The book analyses and empirically describes different conflicts, strategies, and processes through which actors respond to power imbalances in policymaking and seek to reshape rules and patterns of interaction. The authors argue that this enduring balancing of power is essential to the EU's resilience, as it compels actors to respond to challenges and find institutional solutions, particularly in a fast-changing international order.
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Arthur Benz is Professor Emeritus at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He has received the Publius Distinguished Scholarship Award for his research on comparative federalism. His most recent book Understanding Federal Democracy (2026) summarizes his research. Adrienne Héritier is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute. She has published books and journal articles on policymaking and institutional change in the EU and is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize (with H. Willke) of the German Science Foundation, the 2017 award of the International Public Policy Association and the Michael Endres Prize of Hertie School of Governance.

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'This ambitious book goes beyond existing institutional theories of European integration by reintroducing agency through an enlightening theorization of EU institutional actors' balancing strategies, which it then applies to an impressive range of empirical cases. In so doing, the book reveals the secret to the EU's resilience, in the top-down and bottom-up dynamics of interaction among EU actors seeking at one and the same to increase their own institutional power while solving the EU's policy challenges.' Vivien Schmidt, Professor Emerita, Boston University and Visiting Fellow, European University Institute

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