Governance in the European Union

Research question/goal: 

The programme brings together researchers from different disciplines focusing on 'Governance in the EU'. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and co-ordinated by Beate Kohler-Koch. The programme supports the empirical analysis of how governance in Europe has changed over time. Its objective is the normative assessment of governance in negotiating systems and the conceptualization of adequate institutional reforms providing legitimate and efficient governance under changing conditions.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG
Duration: 
1996 to 2005
Status: 
completed
Geographic Space: 
EU

Publications

Books

Eising, Rainer, and Beate Kohler-Koch (Eds.) (2005): Interessenpolitik in Europa. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Regieren in Europa; 7] more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) (2005): The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Cornell Studies in Political Economy] more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) (2005): The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches. London: Routledge. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, Thomas Conzelmann and Michèle Knodt (2004): Europäische Integration - Europäisches Regieren. Wiesbaden: VS, Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften. [Grundwissen Politik; 34] more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, Thomas Conzelmann and Michèle Knodt (2004): Europäische Integration – Europäisches Regieren (Chinesische Übersetzung). Beijing: Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences. more
Jachtenfuchs, Markus, and Beate Kohler-Koch (Eds.) (2003): Europäische Integration. 2nd ed., Opladen: Leske + Budrich. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (Ed.) (2003): Linking EU and National Governance. Oxford: University Press. more
Larat, Fabrice (2003): Histoire de l'intégration européenne (1945-2002). Paris: La documentation Francaise. [Les Etudes des la Documentation Francaise] more
Conzelmann, Thomas (2002): Große Räume, kleine Räume. Europäisierte Regionalpolitik in Deutschland und Großbritannien. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Regieren in Europa; 3] more

Journal Articles

Kohler-Koch, Beate (2005): European Governance and System Integration. European Governance Papers (EUROGOV), C-05-01, pp. online. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2005): Strategic Calculation and International Socialization: Membership Incentives, Party Constellations, and Sustained Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe. International Organization, 59, issue 4, pp. 827-860. more
Wagner, Wolfgang, Frank Schimmelfennig and Michèle Knodt (2004): Auswärtiges Regieren in der Europäischen Union. Ein Tagungsbericht. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 11, issue 1, pp. 147-154. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2004): Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union: Politiken, Prozesse, Ergebnisse. Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 2, issue 3, pp. 465-491. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2004): Governance by Conditionality: EU Rule Transfer to the Candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 11, issue 4, pp. 661-679. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Wolfgang Wagner (2004): Preface: External Governance in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 11, issue 4, pp. 657-660. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel (2003): Europäisierung in Osteuropa: Reaktionen auf die demokratische Konditionalität. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32, issue 3, pp. 321-337. more
Larat, Fabrice (2003): Wie funktioniert die europäische Integration? Vorschlag für einen analytischen Rahmen (dt. Titel eines Beitrags in chinesicher Sprache). Chinese Journal of European Studies, 3, pp. 24-47. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2003): Jenseits von Gleichgewichtspolitik und Anpassung: Chancen und Grenzen transatlantischen sozialen Einflusses. Welttrends, 11, issue 40, pp. 76-81. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2002): European Networks and Ideas: Changing National Policies?. European Integration Online Papers, 6, issue 6. more

Book Chapters

Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2005): The Study of EU Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Findings. Pp. 96-116 in: Angela Bourne, Michele Cini (Eds.) Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2005): Network Governance within and beyond an enlarged European Union. Pp. 35-53 in: Ami Verdun, Osvaldo Croci (Eds.) Institutional and Policy-Making Challenges to the European Union in the Wake of Eastern Enlargement. Manchester: Manchester Universtity Press. more
Eising, Rainer, and Beate Kohler-Koch (2005): Interessenpolitik im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Pp. 11-75 in: Rainer Eising, Beate Kohler-Koch (Eds.) Interessenpolitik in Europa. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel (2005): The Impact of EU Political Conditionality. Pp. 29-49 in: Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2005): The EU: Promoting Liberal Democracy through Membership Conditionality. Pp. 106-126 in: Trine Flockhart (Ed.) Socializing Democratic Norms: the Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2005): Conclusions: The Impact of the EU on the Accession Countries. Pp. 210-228 in: Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2005): Introduction: Conceptualizing the Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Pp. 1-28 in: Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank, and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2005): The politics of EU enlargement. Theoretical and comparative perspectives. Pp. 3-29 in: Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier (Eds.) The Politics of European Union Enlargement. Theoretical approaches. London: Routledge. more
Jachtenfuchs, Markus, and Beate Kohler-Koch (2004): Governance and Institutional Development. Pp. 97-115 in: Antje Wiener, Thomas Diez (Eds.) European Integration Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2004): Liberal Intergovernmentalism. Pp. 75-94 in: Antje Wiener, Thomas Diez (Eds.) European Integration Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Jachtenfuchs, Markus, and Beate Kohler-Koch (2003): Regieren und Institutionenbildung. Pp. 11-46 in: Markus Jachtenfuchs, Beate Kohler-Koch (Eds.) Europäische Integration. 2nd ed., Opladen: Leske + Budrich. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2003): Interdependent European Governance. Pp. 10-23 in: Beate Kohler-Koch (Ed.) Linking EU and National Governance. Oxford: University Press. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Markus Jachtenfuchs (2002): Governance in der Europäischen Union. Arthur Benz (Ed.) Governance - Eine Einführung. Hagen: Fernuniversität Hagen. more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2002): On Networks, Travelling Ideas, and Behavioural Inertia. Pp. 87-103 in: Thomas Conzelmann, Michèle Knodt (Eds.) Regionales Europa - Europäisierte Regionen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. more

MZES Working Papers

Hegmann, Horst (2002): Die soziale Konstruktion konstitutioneller Präferenzen : Eine alternative Verwendungsweise der Ordnungsökonomik in der europäischen Verfassungsdiskussion. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 50] more
Hurrelmann, Achim (2002): Verfassungspolitik als Konstruktion von Lernprozessen? : Konstitutionalisierung und Identitätsbildung in der Europäischen Union. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 51] more
Joerges, Christian (2002): Das Recht im Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 52] more
Schieren, Stefan (2002): Europa zwischen rechtlich-konstitutioneller Konkordanz und politisch-kultureller Vielfalt. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 53] more
Schröter, Michael W. (2002): Das Subsidiaritätsprinzip als verfassungsgenerierender Modus. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 54] more
Somek, Alexander (2002): Mobilität – Wider ein verkürztes Verständnis von Supranationalität. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 55] more

Other Publications

Kohler-Koch, Beate (2007): DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1023. Regieren in der Europäischen Union. Abschlussbericht. Mannheim more
De Bièvre, Dirk (2004): The dynamics of institutional choice: Why the EU pursues non-trade goals in the WTO rather than within other international institutions. Odense more

Conference Presentations

Kohler-Koch, Beate (2005): Will Europe integrate into a common space of politics?. [Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Konferenz 'The Transformation of the European Nation State', The E.ON Ruhrgas Scholarship Programme for Political Science, Berlin, June 03rd to June 04th, 2005] more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2004): Debating the Union's Participatory Democracy and the European Constitution. [Participatory democracy: current situation and opportunities provided by the European Constitution, European Economic and Social Committee, Bruxelles, March 08th to March 09th, 2004] more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2004): Die erweiterte europäische Union: Herausforderungen und Chancen. [Tongji-Universität, Institut für Deutschlandstudien, Shanghai, March 29th, 2004] more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2004): Linkages between European and National Governance - Empirical Findings and Theoretical Consequences. [The Europeanization of Governance - The Challenge of Accession, WZB Berlin and Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue in Warsaw, Center for International Relations, Warsaw, May 16th to May 17th, 2004] more
Kohler-Koch, Beate (2004): The Future of European Integration. [ECSA Denmark Annual Conference, Odense, University of Southern Denmark, September 24th to September 25th, 2004] more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2004): Die Europäisierung Ost- und Mitteleuropas: Starke Anreize, ambivalente Wirkungen. [DFG-Graduiertenkolleg, Osnabrück, June 30th, 2004] more
Wonka, Arndt (2004): Organizing in the European Union: National business associations' European lobbying strategies in the reformulation of the EU chemicals policy.. [Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments: Responses to Europeanization and Internationalization., Universität Konstanz, January 16th to January 17th, 2004] more