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Decentralized EU Policy Coordination in Crisis? The Case of Germany

  • Abstract Europeanization research found no general convergence towards centralized EU policy coordination, despite decentralized systems' comparatively slow and ineffective position‐taking. Does this finding hold against the threat, urgency, and uncertainty exerted by recent years' polycrisis? We posit that decentralized systems indeed persist, albeit in a three‐step reactive sequence in which situational centralization during crises dialectically reinforces decentralization in the long run. First, the prime minister's office harnesses a crisis to acquire hierarchical control of position‐taking. Second, to exploit the deep expertise of the bureaucracy and maximize its bargaining power on the EU‐level, it co‐opts a lead ministry. Third, due to the institutional underpinnings of the decentralized system, the lead ministry, rather than the prime minister's office, eventually retains the administrative capacities created in crisis. We illustrate this causal mechanism in a comparison of the German government's EU policy coordination during the Eurozone and Schengen crises.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Christian Freudlsperger, Martin Weinrich
Parent Title (English):JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
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Last Page:n/a
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13159
Release Date:2021/06/15
Tag:European Union; Germany; crisis; decentralization; policy coordination; reactive sequence
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Hertie School Research:Jacques Delors Centre
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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