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Political Science

November 2006

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Founded in 1963 by two prominent Austrians living in exile – the sociologist Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the economist Oskar Morgenstern – with the financial support from the Ford Foundation, the AustrianFederal Ministry of Education, and the City of Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is the first institution for postgraduate education and research in economics and the social sciences inAustria. The Political Science Series presents research done at the Department of Political Scienceand aims to share “work in progress” before formal publication. It includes papers by the Department’s teaching and research staff, visiting professors, graduate students, visiting fellows, and invitedparticipants in seminars, workshops, and conferences. As usual, authors bear full responsibility for the content of their contributions. Das Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) wurde im Jahr 1963 von zwei prominenten Exilösterreichern –dem Soziologen Paul F. Lazarsfeld und dem Ökonomen Oskar Morgenstern – mit Hilfe der Ford-Stiftung, des Österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und der Stadt Wien gegründet und istsomit die erste nachuniversitäre Lehr- und Forschungsstätte für die Sozial- und Wirtschafts-wissenschaften in Österreich. Die Reihe Politikwissenschaft bietet Einblick in die Forschungsarbeit der Abteilung für Politikwissenschaft und verfolgt das Ziel, abteilungsinterne Diskussionsbeiträge einerbreiteren fachinternen Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Die inhaltliche Verantwortung für dieveröffentlichten Beiträge liegt bei den Autoren und Autorinnen. Gastbeiträge werden als solche gekennzeichnet.

Contents

1. Introduction _____________________________________ 1

2. Head of Department ______________________________ 3

3. Assistant Researchers ___________________________ 23

4. Project Researchers _____________________________ 45

5. Scholars (Ph.D. Students) _________________________ 61

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1. Introduction

Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) (by Gerda Falkner)

Dear reader,

this brochure intends to give you a brief overview of our work in recent months.

The IHS Political Science Department now employs three Assistant Professors, six Project Researchers, ten doctoral students, one administrator and the Head of Department (21 members overall, plus three Research Assistants not included in this brochure) but still has a coherent research agenda. We are all specialised in European integration, in a very broad sense. We share many interests and they all relate to each other. Therefore, our academic exchange is rich and fruitful. At the same time, our research focus is broad enough to allow for variety and individuality.

On the level of research projects, we form part of two top projects under the 6th Framework Programme for Research of the EU. Firstly, we are active in research in the NEWGOV Integrated Project co-ordinated by the European University Institute in Florence. Secondly, we belong to the CONNEX Network of Excellence, directed by Beate Kohler-Koch at the University of Mannheim. These affiliations provide access to additional funds for networking and integrating our young researchers into the academic community across the continent and beyond. For both projects, the IHS Department of Political Science manages the joint dissemination of results via the innovative journal “Living Reviews in European Governance” (LREG) with regularly updated state-of-the-art reviews and with a working paper series (EUROGOV papers). Please visit http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org/ and http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/. Four researchers are continuing work on the project “Dead Letter or Living Rights? The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe” funded under the Austrian research programme TRAFO for trans-disciplinary research. Let me also mention that not only our staff have been successful in acquiring research funds. Nicole Alecu de Flers, one of our ten doctoral students, was selected from many international applicants as a funded participant (2005-2007) in the international research and training programme "European Foreign and Security Policy Studies" managed by the Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany), the Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden).

The three-year postgraduate programme in European Integration continues to run successfully. Our three-year course targeted at the education of young scientists is unique in Austria. The extended duration will facilitate the combining of the programme with the completion of a dissertation and will ensure better job opportunities for our alumni. This year,

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for the first time, our students have received some travel money to conduct interviews or other research for their dissertation projects. This is financed by external funds acquired by the departmental staff.

Our external relations are well developed. As in the previous year, the IHS Department of Political Science's guests have included extremely renowned Visiting Professors and Guest Lecturers such as, for example, Fritz Scharpf, Paul Pierson, Amie Kreppel and Klaus Goetz. The Political Science Department continues to be active in important conferences worldwide. Most importantly, members of the Department of Political Science presented their work as part of their own panels and in individual papers, e.g. at the level of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the German Political Science Association (DVPW).

The Political Science Department's publication record for 2005 and 2006 includes publishers such as Oxford and Cambridge University Presses and several refereed journals (such as the International Social Security Review and the Journal of European Public Policy). Further articles have been accepted, e.g. by the European Journal of Political Research, and others are in preparation, e.g. for European Union Politics and for the Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

The Departmental Working Paper Series in Political Science is a further important activity. Published mainly in English and freely available on the internet, this series is our “window to the world” offering fresh insights from within the Department, most importantly by our renowned Visiting Professors but also from internal staff members.

We hope that you find our activities of interest and we look forward to future cooperation.

G.F.

I H S — Gerda Falkner / Head of Department — 3

2. Head of Department

Gerda Falkner E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–175 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since Sep. 2002: Head of the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna.

Since Oct. 1998: Associate professor for political science, Vienna University, Faculty of Economics and Computing Sciences (permanent position).

Nov. 1998–Aug. 2003: Visiting researcher, from 1999 research group director, at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

April 1998: Habilitation (professoral thesis) at Vienna University, manuscript on changes in governance and policy network formation at the EU level (published by Routledge, UK).

Nov. 1994 – Oct. 1995: Research fellow at the University of Warwick and University of Essex, England, under the EC programme “Human Capital and Mobility”, co-financed by the Austrian Research Fund FWF; research on interest representation at the EU level.

Jan. 1992 – Oct. 1998: University lecturer at the Institute for Government (Department of Social and Economic Sciences), Vienna University; research and teaching on European integration, public policy, democracy, gender issues.

May 1992: Ph.D. in political science (Dr. phil.); thesis on EC decision-making and the “joint decision trap” (published by Europa Union Verlag, Germany).

June 1991: Master of Advanced European Studies (College of Europe), thesis on “package dealing in the European Council.

Sep. 1989 – June 1990: Post-graduate programme in European integration at the College of Europe, Brugge/Belgium (working languages: English and French); Diploma of Advanced European Studies (“very good”).


1988 – 1989: Doctoral student; working also as a teaching assistant at the Institute for Political Science of Vienna University, involved in various editorial boards and associations (Journal für Ent-wicklungspolitik; International; Kontraste: information service on social policy; Mattersburg Circle for Development Policy).

June 1987 – July 1988: Employee at the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs; attended evening post-graduate course in Latin American studies.

May 1987: Graduate, academic degree Mag. phil. (Master of Philosophy); thesis on foreign policy issues (with highest honours).

1982 – 1987: Student of political science (combined with economics and mass communications) at Vienna University.

Other academic activities and accomplishments

May 2006: Visiting Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

March 2006: Selected for the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Forschungspreis for outstanding research.

Since April 2005: Director of the Project "Dead Letter or Living Rights? The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe" funded under the Austrian research programme TRAFO for transdisciplinary research.

Since 2005: Member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria (Österreichische IIASA-Kommission bei der Akademie der Wissenschaften).

Since October 2004: Editor-in-chief of the refereed journal "Living Reviews in European Governance" (LREG) and member of the Editorial Board of the Network of Excellence CONNEX under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research.

Since September 2004: Director of the IHS Team in the Integrated Project NEWGOV, co-ordinated at the European University Institute in Florence under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research.

Since July 2004: Director of the IHS Team on the CONNEX Network of Excellence co-ordinated by Beate Kohler-Koch at the University of Mannheim.

June 2004: Elected Vice President of the Austrian European Community Studies Association (ECSA-Austria / Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europaforschung) for 2005-2008.


Since 2004: Co-chair of the section on “Comparative Politics and European Integration” of the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW).

Since 2003: Member of the Austrian "Arbeitsgruppe Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften des Rats für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung".

Since 2003: Member of the Academic Governing Board, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin.

Since 2002: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, International Social Security Review of the ILO.

Winter 2002: Expert in the evaluation procedure under the 5th framework programme for research of the European Commission, Brussels.

Academic year 2001/02: External Selection Committee Member for the chair in international comparative analysis of societies, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges (part-time).

Since 2001: Referee for the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, for Regional and Federal Studies, for the VW Research Fund (Volkswagenstiftung) and for the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences (Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften); editorial board member of the book series Europe in Change, Manchester University Press, UK.

Since 2000: Referee for the Austrian Research Fund (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft), for the K.U.Leuven Research Council, and for the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Since 1999: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board and Referee for European Union Politics, and referee for the Journal of European Integration.

Since 1998: Referee for Political Studies, for Current Politics and Economics of Europe; and for the book series, the discussion paper series and the working paper series of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

Since 1997: Co-editor (political science) of the refereed journal European Integration online Papers (EIoP).

Since 1996: Referee for Acta Politica (Dutch Journal of Political Science) and Board Member for the Austrian European Community Studies Association (ECSA-Austria).


1995 – 1997: Co-director of the Austrian team in the EU research network “The European Policy Process”; other members: University of Essex; Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Copenhagen; European University Institute, Florence; Max Planck Institute, Cologne; Panteion University Athens; University College, Dublin; University of Umeå; (with Wolfgang C. Müller).

Since 1995: Member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on the European Union of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and referee for the Journal of European Public Policy.

1995 – 1998: Equal Opportunities Officer of the Institute for Governance.

1993 – 1998: (with intervals) Representative in the Faculty Association of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences.

1993 – 1994: Member of the Grants and Bursary Commission of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences.

Since 1992: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, and referee, of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft).

1992 – 1994: Reader in economic and social policy at the Austrian Academy for Social Work, and at the Academy for Social Work of the city of Vienna.

1992 – 1998: Full member of the Equal Treatment Commission of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences.

Winter term 1991/92: Lecturing assistant (Tutorin) at the Institute for Government, Vienna University.

Oct. 1990 – April 1992: Researcher and director in the project “The Social and Labour Market Policies of the EC and their Consequences in the case of Austrian Adhesion” for the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (single authored research report, 538 pages).

1987 – 1994: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the social policy news service Kontraste.

List of publications

Books

Complying with Europe: EU Harmonization and Soft Law in the Member States, Cambridge/UK: Cambridge University Press (2005), 404 pages [with Treib Oliver; Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone].


The Treaty of Amsterdam. Facts, Analysis, Prospects. Series of the Research Institute for European Affairs, Vol. 15. Wien/New York, Springer (2000), 720 pages [with Griller, Stefan; Droutsas, Dimitri; Forgó, Katrin; Nentwich, Michael].

EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Towards a corporatist policy community. European Public Policy Series. London, Routledge (1998), 254 pages.

European Union: Democratic Perspectives after 1996. Schriftenreihe des Forschungsinstituts für Europafragen, Vol. 13. Wien, Service Fachverlag (1995), 152 pages [with Nentwich, Michael].

Supranationalität trotz Einstimmigkeit? Entscheidungsmuster der EU am Beispiel Sozialpolitik. Bonn, Europa Union Verlag (1994), 279 Seiten.

Parlamentarische Technikfolgenabschätzung im europäischen Vergleich. Wien, Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1994), 212 Seiten [mit Torgersen, Helge; Peissl, Walter].

Die Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf Österreich im Fall eines Beitritts. Endbericht, im Auftrag von: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Wien (1992), 538 Seiten.

Tendenzen der Frauenbeschäftigung. Gleichbehandlung ist das Ziel, Vol. 15, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (Hrsg.). Wien (1989), 52 Seiten [mit Beidl, Gabriele; Wense-Lessing, Daniela].

10 Jahre Frauenforschung des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales. Gleichbehandlung ist das Ziel, Vol. 13, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (Hrsg.). Wien (1988), 186 Seiten (also published: 1989, in English).

Editions

EU Treaty Reform as a Three-level Process: Historical Institutionalist Perspectives. Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, No. 1, Vol. 9. London, Routledge, 2002.

Österreich im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Konsequenzen der EU-Mitgliedschaft für Politiknetzwerke und Entscheidungsprozesse. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Angewandte Politikforschung, No. 17. Wien, Signum, 1998 [mit Müller, Wolfgang C.].

EU-Mitglied Österreich. Gegenwart und Perspektiven: Eine Zwischenbilanz. Wien, Manz, 1996 [mit Tálos, Emmerich].

Europäische Dimensionen. Sonderheft der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissen-schaft, No. 1. Wien, 1994.

Eurovisionen. Sonderheft von International – Zeitschrift für internationale Politik, No. 1. Wien, 1991 [mit Nentwich, Michael].


Journal articles (since 2000)

Modes of Governance: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. Journal of European Public Policy 14/1 (2007) 1-20. [with Treib, Oliver; Bähr, Holger]. Worlds of Compliance: Why leading approaches to the implementation of EU legislation are only “sometimes-true theories”. European Journal of Political Research (2007) (forthcoming) [with Miriam Hartlapp, Oliver Treib]. Also published as: Working Paper of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence (2006) http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Publications/. Forms of governance in European Union social policy: Continuity and/or change? International Social Security Review 59/2 (2006), 77-104. (also published in French and German). Europäische Sozialpolitik in der nationalen Praxis. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 51/2 (2005), 139-163 [with Treib, Oliver].

Europeanisation of Social Partnership in Smaller European Democracies?, European Journal of Industrial Relations 10/3 (2004), 239-260 [with Simone Leiber].

Non-Compliance with EU Directives in the Member States: Opposition through the Backdoor? West European Politics, 27/3 (2004) 452–473 [with Treib, Oliver; Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone]. (auch erschienen als: Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with EU Directives. IHS Political Science Series. Working Paper 83, Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies (2002). http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_83.pdf

Comparing Europeanisation Effects: From Metaphor to Operationalisation. European Integration online Papers 7/13 (2003), http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2003-013a.htm

Zwischen Recht und Vertrag: Innovative Regulierungsformen im EG-Arbeitsrecht. Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (2002), No. 2, 222–235.

How Intergovernmental are Intergovernmental Conferences? An Example from the Maastricht Treaty Reform. Journal of European Public Policy 9/1 (2002), 98–119.

EU treaty reform as a three-level process: Introduction. Journal of European Public Policy 9/1 (2002), 1–11.

Theorising EU Treaty Reform: Beyond Diplomacy and Bargaining. Journal of European Public Policy 9/1 (2002), 12–32 [with Christiansen, Thomas; Jorgensen, Knud Erik].

The EU14’s “Sanctions” Against Austria: Sense and Nonsense. ECSA Review (Journal of the European Community Studies Association USA) 14/1 (2001), 14–20.

The Europeanisation of Austria: Misfit, Adaptation and Controversies. European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5/13 (2001), http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2001-013a.htm

Rappresentanza degli Interessi e Politiche Pubbliche nell’Unione Europea. Rivista Italiana di Scienza politica 30/1 (2000), 3–41.

The Council or the social partners? EC social policy between diplomacy and collective bargaining. Journal of European Public Policy 7/5 (2000), 705–724.


EG-Sozialpolitik nach Verflechtungsfalle und Entscheidungslücke: Bewertungsmaßstäbe und Entwicklungstrends. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 41/2 (2000), 279–301.

How Pervasive are Euro-Politics? Effects of EU Membership on a New Member State. Journal of Common Market Studies 38/2 (2000), 223–250.

Policy Networks in a Multi-level System: Converging Towards Moderate Diversity? West European Politics 23/4 (2000), 94–120 (auch erschienen als: Policy Networks in a Multi-Level System: Convergence Towards Moderate Diversity?, in: Klaus H. Goetz and Simon Hix (eds), Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, 94–120. London/Portland, Frank Cass, 2001).

Book chapters (since 2000)

Bargaining and Lobbying in EU Social Policy, in: Jeremy J. Richardson and David Coen (eds.), Lobbying in the European Union, (forthcoming). Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007 [with Treib, Oliver].

Implementation and Neglect of EU Law in New and Old EU Member States, in: Josef Melchior (ed.), New Spaces of European Governance: Theoretical and practical challenges, 153-162. Vienna, University of Vienna (Eigenverlag), 2006.

Europeanization of the EU member states and the evolution of New Governance, in: Jürgen Nautz and Rita Trattnigg (eds.), State and Civil Society, (forthcoming). Vienna, Passagen Verlag, 2006.

Österreich als EU-Mitglied: Kontroversen auf internationaler und nationaler Ebene, in: Emmerich Tálos (Hrsg.), Umbau in Schwarz - Blau? Eine Bilanz der österreichischen Regierungen seit dem Jahr 2000, 86-101. Münster, Lit-Verlag, 2006.

Austria: Friction and Mixed Feelings, in: Eleanor E. Zeff and Ellen B. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and the Member States, 237-252. Boulder CO/London, Lynne Rienner, 2006 [mit Hunt, Lisa].

The EU's Social Dimension, in: Michelle Cini (ed.), European Union Politics, 272-286. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Collective Participation in the European Union: The Euro-Corporatism Debate, in: Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.), The Diversity of Democracy: A Tribute to Philippe C. Schmitter, 223-242. London, Edward Elgar, 2006.

The European Union and new social risks: the need for a differentiated evaluation, in: Klaus Armingeon and Giuliano Bonoli (eds.), The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States. Adapting post-war social policies to new social risks, 248-263. London u.a., Routledge, 2006 [with Treib, Oliver].

Europeanization and Social Policy, in: Paolo Graziano and Maarten Vink (eds.), Europeanization: A Handbook for a New Research Agenda, (in print). Houndmills UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.


Zur "Europäisierung" des österreichischen politischen Systems, in: Peter Gerlich Herbert Dachs, Herbert Gottweis, Franz Horner, Helmut Kramer, Volkmar Lauber, Wolfgang C. Müller, Emmerich Tálos (Hrsg.) Politik in Österreich. Das Handbuch. 82-94. Wien, Manzsche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung, 2006.

Arbeitsrechtliche Schutzbestimmungen der EU und ihre Befolgung in den 15 Mitgliedstaaten, in: Christine Stelzer-Orthofer (Hrsg.) Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Aufbruch - Herausforderungen und innovative Konzepte, 22-38. Wien, Mandelbaum-Verlag, 2006.

The Europeanization of Austria and Ireland: Small is Difficult?, in: Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne (eds.), Member States and the European Union, 209-228. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005 [with Laffan, Brigid].

Die Kooperation der Sozialpartner im Arbeitsrecht: ein europäischer Weg? in: Rainer Eising and Beate Kohler-Koch (Hrsg.), Interessenpolitik in Europa, 341-362. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2005 [mit Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver].

Europäische Sozialpolitik in der nationalen Praxis, in: Alexandra Baum-Ceisig and Anne Faber (eds), Soziales Europa? Neuere sozialpolitische Entwicklungen in der Europäischen Union, 220-238. Wiesbaden, VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005 [mit Treib, Oliver].

Der Soziale Dialog der EU und nationale Sozialpartnerschaft: Chronik einer paradoxen Beziehung, in: Ferdinand Karlhofer and Emmerich Tálos (Hrsg.), Sozialpartnerschaft - eine europäische Perspektive? 159-183. Münster, Lit-Verlag, 2005 [mit Leiber, Simone].

EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem? Eine Problemskizze und potentielle Wirkungsmuster, in: Adrienne Héritier/Fritz W. Scharpf/ Michael Stolleis (eds.), European and International Regulation After the Nation State: Different Scopes and Multiple Levels, 115-138. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004, [with Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib].

Österreichische Politikwissenschaft und EU, in: Helmut Kramer (Hrsg.) Politikwissenschaft als Emanzipations- und Demokratiewissenschaft. 40 Jahre Politikwissenschaft in Österreich, 247-274. Wien, Peter Lang, 2004.

Inkonsistent, inkonsequent und intransparent? Zur supranationalen Kontrolle der Umsetzung der EU-Sozialpolitik in den Mitgliedstaaten, in: Patricia Bauer und Helmut Voelzkow (Hrsg.), Die Europäische Union – Marionette oder Regisseur? (Festschrift für Ingeborg Tömmel, 125-152. Wiesbaden, SV – Sozialwissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2004 [mit Miriam Hartlapp].

The European Union and social policy, in: Klaus Liebscher, Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner and Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald (Hrsg.), The Economic Potential of a Larger Europe, 284-292. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2004.

"Neues Regieren" und "Soziales Europa": EU-Mindestregulierung und Soft Law in der Praxis. Einleitung zum Buch von Oliver Treib: Die Bedeutung der nationalen Parteipolitik für die Umsetzung europäischer Sozialrichtlinien. Schriftenreihe des Max-Plack-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, 51 und Band 1 der Reihe "Politik - Verbände - Recht. Die Umsetzung europäischer Sozialpolitik". Frankfurt/M., Campus: 17-36 (2004) (auch erschienen als: IHS Political Science Series, Working Paper 98, Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies (2004). http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_98.pdf


Die Europäische Union als Herausforderung für die Sozialpolitik der Mitgliedsländer, in: Sieglinde Rosenberger/Emmerich Tálos (Hrsg.), Sozialstaat - Probleme, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven. 14-47. Wien, Mandelbaum Verlag, 2003, [mit Oliver Treib].

Re-Negotiating Social And Labour Policies in the European Multi-Level System: Any Role for Corporatist Patterns?, in: Frans van Waarden/Gerhard Lehmbruch (eds.), Re-negotiating the Welfare State. Flexible adjustment through corporatist concertation, 253-278. London/New York, Routledge, 2003.

The EU’s Social Dimension, in: Michelle Cini (ed.) European Union Politics, 264-277(new edition due in 2006) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Interprofessional Social Dialogue at European Level: Past and Future, in: Berndt Keller/Hans-Wolfgang Platzer (eds.), Industrial Relations and European Integration. Developments and Prospects at EU-level, 11-29. Aldershot et al., Ashgate, 2003.

Zwischen Gestaltungslücke und integrativen Kooperationseffekten: Wohlfahrtsstaat und Integration aus Sicht des historischen Institutionalismus, in: Markus Jachtenfuchs/Beate Kohler-Koch (Hrsg.), Europäische Integration, 479-511. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2003.

Austria in the European Union. Direct and Indirect Effects on Social Policy, in: Michael Gehler/Anton Pelinka/ Günter Bischof (Hrsg.), Österreich in der Europäischen Union. Bilanz seiner Mitgliedschaft. 185-199. Wien. Böhlau, 2003 (auch erschienen als: Austria’s Welfare State: Withering Away in the Union? Contemporary Austrian Studies 10 (2002), 161-179.)

Enlarging the European Union: The Short-term Success of Incrementalism and De-politicisation, in: Jeremy J. Richardson (ed.), European Union – Power and Policy-Making, 259–282. London, Routledge, 2001 [with Nentwich, Michael].

Nach Amsterdam: Ist die neue institutionelle Balance “erweiterungsfest”? in: Roland Hierzinger/Johannes Pollak (Hrsg.), Europäische Leitbilder. Festschrift für Heinrich Schneider, 119–134. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2001 [mit Nentwich, Michael].

The Institutional Framework of Labour Relations at the EU-level: Provisions and Historical Background, in: Reiner Hoffmann/Otto Jacobi/Berndt Keller/Manfred Weiss (ed.), Transnational Industrial Relations in Europe, 11–28. Düsseldorf, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2000.

Auf dem Weg zu einer ‘Europäischen Sozialpolitik’: Was leistet die EU?,in: Fritz Verzetnitsch /Zukunfts- und Kulturwerkstätte (Hrsg.), Auf dem Weg zu einem europäischen Sozialmodell, 28–34. Wien, 2000.

The Amsterdam Treaty: The blueprint for the future institutional balance? in: Karlheinz Neunreither/Antje Wiener (eds.), European Integration after Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy, 15–35. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000 [with Nentwich, Michael].

The Treaty on European Union and its revision: sea change or empty shell for European social policies? in: Stein Kuhnle (ed.), Survival of the European Welfare State, 185–201. London, Routledge, 2000.

Problemlösungsfähigkeit im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Die soziale Dimension, in: Edgar Grande/Markus Jachtenfuchs (Hrsg.), Wie problemlösungsfähig ist die EU? Regieren im europäischen Mehrebenensystem, 283–311. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2000.


Working and conference papers (since 2000)

Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. [mit Treib, Oliver; Bähr, Holger], Eurogov Working Paper, 2005 (http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-newgov-N-05-02.pdf)

Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States. ECPR 3rd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul/Turkey, 21. – 23. 9. 2006. [with Treib, Oliver].

Steuerungsformen in der EU: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Trends. Papier für die Autorenkonferenz zum PVS-Sonderheft von Ingeborg Tömmel, Köln, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 13. - 15. 7. 2006. [mit Bähr, Holger; Treib, Oliver].

Worlds of compliance: Why leading approaches to the implementation of EU legislation are only "sometimes-true theories". Working Paper of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence (http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Publications/) (2006) [mit Miriam Hartlapp, Oliver Treib].

Post-Accession Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe: Transposition and Application after the Age of Carrots and Sticks. eps-net Plenary Conference, Budapest, 16. - 17. 6. 2006. [mit Causse, Emmanuelle; Wiedermann, Clemens].

Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to EU Implementation Are Only 'Sometimes-True Theories'. Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), 14. - 19.4.2005, Granada, Spain [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Treib, Oliver].

Explaining EU Policy Implementation Across Countries: Three Modes of Adaptation. Ninth Biannual Meeting of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA-US), Austin/Texas, 31.3. – 2.4.2005 [with Treib, Oliver].

Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. Kick-off Workshop of Cluster 1 of the Integrated Project NEWGOV (New Modes of Governance in Europe) under the EU's Sixth Framework Programm for Research, Brussels, Belgium, 10.12.2004 [with Treib, Oliver; Bähr, Holger] (auch erschienen als: Eurogov Working Paper, 2005, http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-newgov-N-o5-02.pdf )

Kontinuität und/oder Wandel? Zahlen und Fakten zur EU-Sozialpolitik IHS Political Science Series. Working Paper 100, Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies (2004) http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_100.pdf

Collective Participation in the European Union: The Euro-Corporatism Debate. The Diversity of Democracy: A Tribute to Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute, Florence, 17. - 18.9.2004.

The First EU Social Partner Agreement in Practice: Parental Leave in the 15 Member States IHS Political Science Series, Working Paper 96. Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies (2004) [with Treib, Oliver]. http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_96.pdf

The EU and New Social Risks: The Need for a Differentiated Evaluation. 14th Biennial Conference of Europeanists: Europe and the World: Integration, Interdependence, Exceptionalism? Chicago / USA, 11. - 13.3.2004. [with Treib, Oliver].


Arbeitsrechtliche Schutzbestimmungen der EU und ihre Befolgung in den 15 Mitgliedstaaten. Papier für die internationale Fachtagung “Arbeitsmarkt und Politik”, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 28.4.2004.

Comparing Europeanisation Effects: From Metaphor to Operationalisation. ECPR General Conference (European Consortium for Political Research), Marburg, 18. – 21.9.2003 http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/generalconference/show_panel.asp?panelID=78.

The EU and New Social Risks: The Case of the Parental Leave Directive. Paper for the Conference on The Political Regulation of New Social Risks, organised by Guiliano Bonoli and Klaus Armingeon (University of Berne), Lugano, 25. –27.9.2003. [with Treib, Oliver].

A Europeanization of Governance Patterns in Smaller European Democracies? Eighth Biennial International Conference, European Union Studies Association, Nashville, Tennessee, 27. – 29.3.2003 http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/socialeurope/ [with Leiber, Simone].

Neues Regieren und Soziales Europa: EU-Mindestregulierung und Soft Law in der Praxis. IHS Political Science Series. Working Paper 98. Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies. (2004) http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_98.pdf .

Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with European Directives. 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, Panel on “Sites of Political Opposition in the EU”, Bordeaux, 26. – 28.9.2002. [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver] (auch erschienen als: IHS Politicial Science Series, Working Paper 83, Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies. (2002) http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_83.pdf.

Democracy, Social Dialogue and Citizenship in the European Multi-level System. 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, Panel on “Democracy and Citizenship”, Bordeaux, 26. – 28.9.2002. [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver]. http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/fo/multilevel_de.html#Proj5

Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem am Beispiel der EG-Sozialpolitik. Tagung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) zur “Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem” im Schwerpunkt “Regieren in der Europäischen Union”, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, 4. – 5.7.2002. [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver]. http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/reg_europ/Juli_02/ProgJuli2002.htm

Europeanization and National Political Institutions: A Short Guide to the Maze (workshop directors’ input paper). Workshop 19 on Europeanisation and National Political Institutions ECPR Joint Sessions, Torino, Italy, 22. – 28.3.2002 [with Armingeon, Klaus].

Transforming Social Policy in Europe? The EC’s Parental Leave Directive and Misfit in the 15 Member States. 13th International Conference of Europeanists “Europe in the New Millenium: Enlarging, Experimenting, Evolving”, Chicago, 14. – 16.3.2002 [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver] (auch erschienen als: Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, No. 11, 2002 http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/workpap/wp02-11/wp02-11.html ).


EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem? Regulative Entwicklung, Problemskizze und potentielle Wirkungsmuster. Papier für die Konferenz “MPG 2000+” der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Bonn, 21. – 22.2.2002 [with Hartlapp, Miriam; Leiber, Simone; Treib, Oliver] http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/fo/multilevel_de.html#Proj5.

The Europeanisation of a new member state: The case of Austria. 4th Pan-European International Relations Conference, 5. – 10. Sep. 2001, Canterbury.

Europäische Integration und die Verfassungsfrage: Quantensprung, Stillstand oder beschleunigter Inkrementalismus? Input Paper für die Diskussion mit Jürgen Habermas am Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln, Dezember 2001.

Enlarging the European Union: The Short-term Success of Incrementalism and De-politicisation. Working Papers. Cologne, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. 4 (2000) [with Nentwich, Michael] http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/workpap/wp00-4/wp00-4.html.

Contributions to conferences and presentations (since 2000)

27.10.2006: "Implementation of EU Directives at the National Level", Vortrag am European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht.

21.-23.9.2006: Organiser and chair of the panel "Europeanisation beyond the EU15: Studying new member states, applicant states and other non-member states"; co-author of the paper "Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States"; and commentator as well as chair on the panel "EU governance after enlargement" at the European Consortium for Political Research - ECPR’s 3rd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul, Turkey.

13.-15.7.2006: Kommentatorin und Ko-Autorin eines Beitrags zum Thema "Steuerungsformen in der EU: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Trends" bei der Autorenkonferenz für ein PVS-Sonderheft zum Thema neue Governanceformen der EU; Köln, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung.

9.6.2006: Leitung der Abschluss-Podiumsdiskussion der Konferenz „Demokratisierung und Entdemokratisierung in Europa?“ des Renner-Instituts Wien in Kooperation mit AGORA, Sektion Demokratieforschung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, Wien.

30.5.2006: "Worlds of compliance: Why leading approaches to EU implementation are only "sometimes-true theories", Vortrag am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut, Florenz.

9.5.2006: "Europeanization of the EU member states and the evolution of New Governance", Vortrag im Rahmen der Konferenz "Staat und Zivilgesellschaft" der Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Diplomatischen Akademie, Wien.

5.5.2006: "Implementation and Neglect of EU Law in New and Old EU Member States", Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "New Spaces of European Governance", Universität Wien.


8.2.2006: "Die bestehenden Ansätze zu einem EU-Sozialmodell in der nationalen Praxis", Vortrag im Rahmen einer Veranstaltungsreihe zu den Hauptthemen der österreichischen EU-Präsidentschaft, Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Linz.

2.-3.2.2006: Ko-Präsentation der Arbeit des Wiener Teams im Rahmen des Cluster-Workshops im Integrated Project NEWGOV, Universität zu Köln (mit Oliver Treib und Holger Bähr).

16.1.2006: "Die Governance-Diskussion aus der Perspektive der politikwissenschaftlichen Europaforschung", Vortrag im Rahmen des Europakolloquiums zum Schwerpunkt "Good Governance" des Europainstituts der Wirtschaftsuniversität, Wien (gemeinsam mit Holger Bähr und Irina Michalowitz).

13.-14.1.2006: Kurs "Europäisches Sozialrecht", Lehrgang Sozialmanagement, Universität Salzburg.

9.12.2005: "Implementation of the Acquis: the world of law observance, domestic politics and/or neglect?" Presentation at the international NETLEX conference for experts on EU law, Brussels.

5.12.2005: "Theorie und Praxis der EU-Sozialpolitik", Kurzvortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltung "Europäisches Sozialmodell: Erwartungen aus österreichischer Sicht" des Kummer-Instituts, Österreichische Nationalbank, Wien.

30.11.2005: "Die EU-Dienstleistungsrichtlinie", Referat bei der Hauptversammlung der Bundesarbeitskammer Österreich, Salzburg.

25.11.2005: "Die praktischen Konsequenzen von EU-Sozialharmonisierung auf nationaler Ebene", Vortrag beim Expertenforum "Sozialpolitik in Europa: Harmonisierung, Koordinierung, Wettbewerb" an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereiches "Coordination of Social Security Taxes and Benefits" des FWF, Wien.

24.11.2005: "Die Themen des Europäischen Rats während der österreichischen Präsidentschaft", Statement und Diskussionsleitung im Rahmen der Veranstaltung "Die österreichische EU-Präsidentschaft im 1. Halbjahr 2006", Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Wien.

3.-5.11.2005: Kurzpräsentation des Projektes "Living Reviews in European Governance" (LREG) im Rahmen des Editorial Board Meetings bei der Mid-term Conference des EU-Network of Excellence CONNEX, Mannheim.

2.11.2005: "Der Soziale Dialog der EU und nationale Sozialpartnerschaft: Chronik einer paradoxen Beziehung", Statement bei der Buchpräsentation zum Band "Sozialpartnerschaft - eine europäische Perspektive?" im Presseclub Concordia, Wien.

30.9.2005: Interview für die Tageszeitung "Der Standard" zum Thema EU-Erweiterung.

29.9.2005: Podiumsstatement beim Roundtable zum Thema "Nachhaltigkeit in der EU-Sozialpolitik" des Österreichischen Instituts für Internationale Politik, Wien.

26.9.2005: Podiumsstatement als Expertin zum Thema "Soziales Europa" im Rahmen der Parlamentarier-Herbstklausur zum Thema EU-Binnenmarkt und Dienstleistungsfreiheit, Parlament, Wien.


23.9.2005: Die Praxis zu konkreten EU-Sozialrichtlinien in 15 Mitgliedstaaten: Nur Schall und Rauch? Vortrag bei der Jahrestagung des Wissenschaftlichen Direktoriums des Instituts für Europäische Politik, Berlin.

9.9.2005: Complying with Europe, EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States, presentation of book published with Cambridge University Press, for experts from the EU Commission and from Belgian universities, in co-operation with Observatoire Social Européen und ETUI, Brussels.

7.9.2005: Soziales Europa – Ausgangspunkte und Perspektiven für die Entwicklung eines europäischen Sozialmodells nach dem vorläufigen Scheitern der EU-Verfassung, Vortrag beim XI. Forum Jägermayrhof: "Die soziale Gesellschaft", Linz.

6.7.2005: "Dead Letter or Living Rights? The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe", Kurzstatement (gemeinsam mit ProjektmitarbeiterInnen) zur Vorstellung des Projekts bei der Kick-off Konferenz im Rahmen des Forschungsprogramms für transdisziplinäre Forschung, Wien.

28.6.2005: Diskussionsleitung beim Roundtable „Gibt es eine Europäisierung der politischen Parteien? Argumente aus Wissenschaft und Praxis“, Wien.

30.5.-31.5.2005: Co-Presentation as Director of the Vienna Team's work in the NEWGOV Consortium Conference at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

12.5.2005: Implementation of EU Law: Theory and Practice, Seminar for the Master Programme, Diplomatische Akademie Wien.

18.-19.4.2005: Conference « Democratic citizenship in Europe” organised by Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) and Sciences Po Paris in cooperation with the Department of Political Science of the Philosophical Faculty, Charles University and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI). Concluding speech to the conference plenary on "Being a citizen of Europe, meanings and significances".

15.4.2004: Interview für die Tageszeitung "Der Standard" zum Thema der kommenden österreichischen EU-Präsidentschaft.

31.3.-2.4.2005: Ninth Biannual Meeting of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA-US) in Austin, Texas: Chair of Panel 7E on "Europeanization in East and West: Are there different Worlds of Compliance?" and Co-author of the paper "Explaining EU Policy Implementation Across Countries: Three Modes of Adaptation"; Commentator on Panel 6E "Coordinating the EU: In Search of Coherent Action" chaired by Anand Menon.

10.12.2004: Kick-off Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Brussels, Belgium: Introduction to work of the Vienna Team.

3.12.2004: Diskussionsleitung und Kurzstatements zum Forschungsprojekt "Complying with Europe" am Roundtable zur Implementation von EU-Recht, mit Prof. Christian Joerges vom Europäischen Hochschulinstitut in Florenz, Bedanna Bapouly von der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Oliver Treib vom IHS, Wien.

2.12.2004: Fernsehinterview über die Umsetzung von EU-Richtlinien in Österreich und international, für die ORF-Sendung "Hohes Haus" (ausgestrahlt am 5.12.2004 um 12h00 sowie am 7.12.2004 um 12h00).


29.-30.11.2004: "The Political Science Debate on EU Governance", Commentary on Panel 1 of the Konferenz "New Foundations for European and Global Governance? The Achievements of Europe's Constitutionalization" der Österreichischen Europaforschungsgesellschaft (ECSA-Austria), Wien.

26.11.2004: "Die Umsetzung des europäischen Arbeitsrechts - Forschungsbericht aus den EU-15 Staaten", Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Sozialreformen oder Sozialabbau in Europa?", Universität Osnabrück.

17.11.2004: "EU-Sozialrichtlinien in der Praxis: Erfolg und Misserfolg in Mitgliedstaaten", Vortrag am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin.

17.-18.9.2004: Conference "The Diversity of Democracy: A Tribute to Phillipe C. Schmitter", paper presentation "Collective Participation in the European Union: The Euro-Corporatism Debate", European University Institute, Florence.

10.9.2004: Präsentation der "Living Reviews on European Governance" (Editor in Chief: Gerda Falkner; Managing Editor: Patrick Scherhaufer) im Rahmen des Editorial Board Meeting der Kick-off-Conference des Network of Excellence CONNEX (Connecting Excellence in European Governance), Mannheim.

1.7.2004: Experteninterview zum Thema "Die EU-Governance-Debatte und ihre Bedeutung für Österreich" in der Radiosendung "Dimensionen: Die Welt der Wissenschaft" im Programm Österreich 1.

24.-26.6.2004: 2nd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Bologna: Chair and Organiser of Panel 183 "EU Minimum Harmonisation in the 15 Member States: Different Worlds of Compliance?" and Commentator on Panel 212 on "Europeanization". Presented papers on "Complying with EU Law: Are there Different "Worlds of Compliance"? (panel 183, social policy section) and on "Beyond Market and Currency: Soft Versus Hard Law under The Social Dimension of European Integration" (panel 173, political economy section).

22.6.2004: "Von der Verwaltung zur Politikgestaltung: Demokratiepolitische Unverträglichkeit oder Europäisierungstrend?" Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Good Governance: Neue Qualitäten im Verhältnis von Staat und Zivilgesellschaft" anlässlich des Österreich-Konvents, Parlament, Wien.

11.-13.6.2004: "Different Worlds? Compliance with EU labour law in the member states", presentation at an expert seminar on the transposition and implementation of EU law, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

13.5.2004: Podiumsdiskutantin zum Thema "Politikwissenschaft in Österreich. Perspektiven für die Nachwuchsförderung", Konferenz PoWi 2004, Wien.

5.5.2004: Implementation of EU Law: Theory and Practice, Seminar for the Master Programme, Diplomatische Akademie Wien.

29.4.2004: Podiumsdiskutantin (gemeinsam mit Vize-/BotschafterInnen, österreichischen Nationalratsabgeordneten, einer Expertin der Arbeiterkammer und Journalisten) im Rahmen der Veranstaltung "EU-XXL: Mit dem Schiff ins größere Europa" zur Feier der EU-Erweiterung.


28.4. 2004: Arbeitsrechtliche Schutzbestimmungen der EU und ihre Befolgung in den 15 Mitgliedstaaten, Referat im Rahmen der internationalen Fachtagung "Arbeitsmarkt und Politik", Johannes Kepler Universität Linz.

22.4.2004: Compliance with EU Law: A Major Task for Old and New Member States, Speech at International Conference of the Central European Policy Studies Association, Budapest.

5.-6.3.2004: Kurs "Europäisches Sozialrecht", Lehrgang Sozialmanagement, Universität Salzburg.

11.2.2004: Commentary on New Governance Structures in Employment Policy Making, Govecor (Economic Governance by Self-Coordination: Towards a Collective 'Gouvernement Economique'?) Final Review Meeting, Brussels 16-17 February.

12.12.2003: Europäische Sozialpolitik und ihre Umsetzung in den Mitgliedstaaten. Vortrag auf der Konferenz "Die EU - eine Marionette oder der Regisseur?" an der Universität Osnabrück (Präsentation und Paper mit Miriam Hartlapp).

24.11.2003: Compliance with EU Directives: How much cohesion, how much conflict? Presentation at the Conference "Integrating Europe: Potential and Performance of the Social Sciences in the Process of EU Enlargement", organised by the Austrian Sociological Association, Vienna.

6.11.2003: Die Europäische Union und ihre Sozialpolitik: Vergangenheit - Gegenwart - Zukunft, Vorlesung im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung Internationale Entwicklung WS 2003/2004, Campus Altes AKH, Wien.

4.11.2003: The European Union and Social Policy, Presentation at Final Panel at the East - West Conference of the Österreichische Nationalbank, Vienna.

26.10.2003: Podiumsdiskutantin zum Thema "Stadt, Staat und Europa – Metamorphosen für's 21. Jahrhundert" bei der Matinee im Volkstheater zum Staatsfeiertag im Rahmen der "Wiener Wissenschaftstage 2003", Wien.

25.–27.9.2003: The EU and New Social Risks: The Case of the Parental Leave Directive. Papier für die Konferenz "The politics of new social risks", Lugano, Schweiz (paper with Oliver Treib).

18.–21.9.2003: Comparing Europeanisation Effects: From Metaphor to Operationalisation. Presentation at the ECPR General Conference, Marburg, Germany.

11.9.2003: Theory and Practice of Minimum Harmonization and Soft Law in the Multilevel System, Presentation for the Academic Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

3.6.2003: "New Governance" and Social Europe, Final Project Presentation at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany (with Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber und Oliver Treib).

25.4.2003: Vortrag zum Thema "EG-Sozialrecht in Theorie und Praxis", gemeinsame Arbeitstagung des MPI für Sozialrecht und des MPI für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln.


18.3.2003: "Hard and Soft EU Law in Practice: Studying 15 Member States and Six Directives", presentation for the ARENA programme on Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation State Oslo, Norway.

28.3.2003: "A Europeanization of Governance Patterns in Smaller European Democracies?" Eighth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association, USA, in Nashville, Tennessee (paper with Simone Leiber).

12.12.2002: "Mindestharmonisierung und Soft Law in der EG-Sozialpolitik: Von der Theorie zur Praxis", Vortrag im Rahmen des Abteilungsseminars Politikwissenschaft am Institut für Höhere Studien, Wien.

4.12.2002: Vortrag "Mindestharmonisierung durch EG-Richtlinien: Vom Mythos zur praktischen Realität in den 15 Mitgliedstaaten", Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Universität Köln.

26.–28.9.2002: "Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with European Directives", 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, Panel on "Sites of Political Opposition in the EU" (paper mit Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib).

26.–28.9.2002: "Democracy, Social Dialogue and Citizenship in the European Multi-level System", 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, Panel on "Democracy and Citizenship", Bordeaux (paper mit Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib).

12.8.2002: "Building on, and going beyond, case and sector studies: Theorising the institutional provision of common goods"; Vortrag auf Einladung der Suchungskommission der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Sektion der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Empfehlung einer Nachfolge für die politikwissenschaftliche Direktorenstelle an der Max-Planck-Projektgruppe "Recht der Gemeinschaftsgüter" nach Umwandlung in ein Institut, Frankfurt.

4.–5.7.2002: "Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem am Beispiel der EG-Sozialpolitik", Tagung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) im Schwerpunkt "Regieren in der Europäischen Union" und der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), zur Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen (paper mit Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib).

26.7.2002: “New Governance und Soziales Europa: Zur Theorie und Praxis von Mindest-Harmonisierung und Soft Law im Mehrebenensystem", Vortrag bei der Max-Planck-Projektgruppe "Recht der Gemeinschaftsgüter", Bonn.

22.–27.3.2002: Europeanization and National Political Institutions: A Guide to the Maze; Workshop director at the ECPR Joint Sessions Turino, Workshop 19 on Europeanisation and National Political Institutions (with Klaus Armingeon).

21.–22.2.2002: "EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem? Regulative Entwicklung, Problemskizze und potentielle Wirkungsmuster", Konferenz "MPG 2000+", Bonn.

14.-16.3.2002: "Transforming Social Policy in Europe? The EC's Parental Leave Directive and Misfit in the 15 Member States", 13th International Conference of Europeanists "Europe in the New Millenium: Enlarging, Experimenting, Evolving", Chicago (paper mit Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib).


19.2.2002: "Ursprünge, Entwicklung und Ergebnisse des sozialen Dialogs", Workshop "Bestandsaufnahme und Zukunft der industriellen Beziehungen auf europäischer Ebene" der IG Metall, Frankfurt.

16.–18.11.2001: Conference of the German Association for Political Science‘s political economy section on the future of the welfare state „Zukunft und Perspektiven des Wohlfahrtsstaates“, Hagen (gave speech on EC social policy in the multi-level system „Mehrebenenpolitik in der EU: Wo ist der Ort der Sozialpolitik?“, with Miriam Hartlapp, Simone Leiber, Oliver Treib).

29.10.2001: Universität Bremen (Vortrag „Governance und Sozialpolitik: Formen und Performanz staatlicher und anderer Steuerungsversuche“).

23.10.2001: Institut für Höhere Studien, Wien (Vortrag „Das europäische Mehrebenensystem als Herausforderung für die Sozialwissenschaft: Österreichische und vergleichende Perspektiven“).

8.9.2001: Organised and chaired Panel 1, „Treaty Reform beyond Bargaining and Diplomacy“, of Section 10 „Decision-making and negotiations in the EU“, at the 4th Pan-European International Relations Conference, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Canterbury, UK.

8.9.2001: Presented paper on “The Europeanisation of a New Member State: The Case of Austria” at the 4th Pan-European International Relations Conference, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Canterbury, UK. Section 11 “Institutional Development, National Preferences and Decision-Making in the European Union”, Panel 1 “Europeanisation: Adaptation or Transformation of Europe’s Nation States”.

14.–16.5.2001: Symposium „Austria in the European Union: A First Assessment after 5 Years“, University of Innsbruck (speech on Austria’s welfare state in the EU).

11.5.2001: Konferenz der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Europaforschung (ECSA-Austria) über „Flexible Integration nach Nizza“, Wien (Vortrag über Erfahrungen mit dem Maastrichter Sozialprotokoll).

5.-6.5.2001: "Theorising EU Treaty Reform" und "An Example from Social Policy", Vorträge bei der Autorenkonferenz "How Intergovernmental are Intergovernmental Conferences?" am Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln.

1.–2.12.2000: Workshop der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft „Politik und Recht unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung und Dezentralisierung, Köln (Vortrag „EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem?“).

8.11.2000: Konferenz „Die EU: eine politische Gemeinschaft im Werden?“ an der Universität Osnabrück (Vortrag zum Thema „Eine sozialpolitische Gemeinschaft im Werden? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Systementwicklung durch Politikgestaltung“).

11.10.2000: Institut für Höhere Studien, Wien (Vortrag: „Sozialpolitik im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung“).

31.8.–3.9.2000: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington (chaired and organised Panel 11-39 on “Explaining national deviation in EU policy implementation: Goodness of fit and convergence”).


3.9.2000: presented paper „How Pervasive are Euro-Politics? Effects of EU Membership on a New Member State” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington.

1.–6.8.2000: XVIII IPSA World Congress “World Capitalism, Governance and Community: Toward a Corporate Millennium?” Quebec, Canada (presented paper „The Council or the social partners? EC social policy between diplomacy and collective bargaining“).

30.7.–1.8.2000: Third Biennial ECSA-Canada Conference, Quebec City (presented paper “Enlarging the European Union: The Short-Term Success of Incrementalism and De-Politicisation”, with M. Nentwich).

27.6.2000: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Vortrag: „Problemlösungsfähigkeit im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Die soziale Dimension).

23.2.2000: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln (Vortrag: „Österreich und die EU-Sanktionen: Voraussetzungen und Folgen aus integrations- und demokratietheoretischer Sicht“).

19.1.2000: Institut für Sozialpolitik der Universität Göttingen, Forschungskolloquium (Vortrag: „Nach Politikverflechtungsfalle und Entscheidungslücke: Welche Maßstäbe für die EG-Sozialpolitik?).

Theses

Towards a Corporatist Policy Community – EU Social Policy in the 1990s. Habilitationsschrift (post-doctoral thesis). Universität Wien, 1998.

Entscheidungsfindung in der EG: Einstimmigkeitserfordernis, Politikverflechtung und Vetomacht in sozialgestaltenden Politikbereichen. Dissertation. Universität Wien, 1991.

Package Dealing in the European Council: Background and Negotiations on the Reform of the European Social Fund within the Delors Package 1988. Master’s thesis. College of Europe Brugge, 1990.

Politische Beziehungen, Wirtschaftsbeziehungen und Entwicklungshilfe in der österreichischen Außenpolitik gegenüber Lateinamerika 1970 bis 1983. Diplomarbeit. Universität Wien, 1987.

Miscellaneous (since 2000)

Research on EU multilevel governance in Austria: A state of research, im Auftrag von: CONNEX Network of Excellence, 2005 [mit Irina Michalowitz, Erik Tajalli]. Europäische Sozialpolitik in den Mitgliedstaaten: Sein oder Schein? MPIfG Jahrbuch 2003/2004. Jahrbuch des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, 63-69, Köln, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2005 (also published in: Praxistest: Arbeitsrechtliche EU-Mindestregulierung, in: Sichere Arbeit, Heft 2 / 2005, 17-19).

Wie wurscht ist uns der Erhalt des Rechtsstaats? Debatte über EU-Gesetze: "Rosinenpicken" gilt nicht. Der Standard. Wien, 31, 5. 10. 2004.


Griechenlands "Gelassenheit" gegenüber Brüssel ist kein Einzelfall: Vom leichtfertigen Umgang mit dem EU-Recht. Der Standard. Wien, 33, 24. 9. 2004.

Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), in: Gerda Falkner (ed.) Political Science at the IHS: Profile, People, Publications, 1-5. Wien, 2003 <http://www.ihs.ac.at/index.php3?id=450>.

“Neues Regieren” und Soziales Europa: Theorie und Praxis von Mindestharmonisierung und “Soft Law” im Mehrebenensystem, in: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (ed.), Max-Planck-Jahrbuch, 760–762. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001.

Book review: Beyond the Market: The EU and National Social Policy, ed. by Hine, D. and H. Kassim (1998), London/New York: Routledge. Public Administration Vol. 79 (2001), No. 1, 237.

Österreich als Mitglied der EU, in: Emmerich Tálos (ed.), Das politische System in Österreich, 29–32. Wien, Österreichischer Bundespressedienst, 2000.

I H S — Sylvia Kritzinger / Assistant Professor — 23

3. Assistant Professors

Sylvia Kritzinger E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–176 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Curriculum Vitae

Career

Since Sep. 2003 Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria.

Sep. 2002 – July 2003 Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin

July 1998 – June 2003 Freelance consultant to Southtyrolean People’s Party on ‘Regional Parties in the European integration process’

March 1998 – Oct. 2002 Doctoral student at the Department of Governance, University of Vienna

Jan. 2001 – April 2002 TMR-Research Fellow at Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin

Oct. 2000 – Dec. 2000 TMR young scholar candidate of the research unit ‘Institutions and Social Change’, WZB (Wissenschafts-zentrum Berlin)

Oct. 1998 – Sep. 2000 Postgraduate Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna

March 2000 – June 2000 Study Assistant at the Department of Governance, University of Vienna

May 1998 – June 1998 Intern at Info Research International Vienna for Market Research

March 1998 – Jan. 2000 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Governance, University of Vienna

Jan. 1998 Masters-equivalent degree in Political Science


Oct. 1997 – June 1999 Student of Market and Opinion Research at the University of Vienna

Dec. 1997 – May 1998 Intern at R&DD Vienna for Public Relations

Oct. 1993 – Jan. 1998 Student of Political Science and Communication Science at the University of Vienna


Summer term 2006: Seminar for undergraduates ‘Political Parties and European Integration. The Europeanisation of national and European political parties’, University of Vienna, Department of Governance.

PhD-Coaching, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science.

Since 2006: Referee for Political Studies

Steering Committee Member of the European Science Foundation scientific programme ‘Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences’ (QMSS).

Winter term 2005/06: PhD-Coaching, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science.

Autumn 2005: Panel Chair and Discussant at the ECPR-General Conference, Budapest, in the Section “Europeanisation, Governance and Political Changes: Empirical Investigation and Theoretical Reflections”

Summer 2005: Participation in the ECPR Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis in Essex, UK (Course on Time Series Analysis)

Summer term 2005: Graduate Seminar ‘Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice’, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science.

Seminar for undergraduates ‘Public Opinion in the European Integration Process: Factors of support’, University of Vienna, Department of Governance.

PhD-Coaching, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science.

March – April 2005: Graduate seminar (approx. 20 sessions with discussions of participants’ draft dissertation outlines), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (in collaboration with Gerda Falkner, Irina Michalowitz and Oliver Treib).

Winter term 2004/05: Course for postgraduates ‘Research Design’, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science.


Course for postgraduates ‘Qualitative Methods in Political Science’, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science (with Gerda Falkner, Irina Michalowitz and Oliver Treib).

Course ‘The political system of the EU’, Danube-University Krems.

Since 2005: Lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Vienna

Referee for European Journal of Political Research

2004/2005 Secretary General of the Austrian Political Science Association

Since 2004: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, and referee, of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft).

April 2004: Member of the platform ‘EU research infrastructure’ initiated by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture

Since 2004: Referee for European Integration online Papers (EioP) and Pluto Press

Autumn 2004 Expert in the ex-post evaluation procedure of the Belgian Federal Science Policy office

Autumn 2004: Visiting professor at the Danube-University Krems

2003/2004: Expert of the EU-working group ‘Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities’

Since 2002: Referee for European Union Politics

Jan. 2002 Participation in the TMR Winter School on Comparative Electoral Research, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

June 2001 – July 2001 Participation in the ICPSR Summer School in Statistics and Mathematics in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (Courses on Regression Analysis and Minimum Likelihood Analysis)

Jan. 2001 Participation in the TMR Winter School on Comparative Electoral Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

July 2000 Participation in the European Summer School in Comparative Politics 1998-2000 on ‘Europeanisation of national politics: challenges and opportunities for European Institutions’, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy

July 1998 Participation in the IES-Summer School on ‘Europe and Liberty’, Gummersbach, Germany


List of Publications

Books and Brochures

Understanding EU Policy Making, London/Ann Arbor: Pluto Press/University of Michigan Press (2006) [with Raj Chari].

Journal articles

The Demography of Growing European Identity [with Wolfgang Lutz and Vegard Skirbekk], Science 314/20 (2006): 425.

System oder Netzwerk? Veränderungen forschungspolitischer Strategien in Österreich [with Barbara Prainsack and Helga Pülzl], Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 35/1(2006): 75-92.

Party Position Changes through EU membership? The (Non-)Europeanisation of Austrian, Finnish and Swedish Political Parties [with Irina Michalowitz], Politique Européenne 16/2(2005): 21-53.

European Identity Building from the Perspective of Efficiency. Comparative European Politics 3/1(2005): 50-75.

Continuities and Changes in Attitudes Towards Europe within the Italian Political Parties: an Examination of Parties’ manifestos [with Francesco Cavatorta and Raj Chari]. Journal of European Public Policy 11/6 (2004): 954-74.

Examining and Explaining the Northern League’s ‘U-Turn’ From Europe [with Suvi Iltanen and Raj Chari]. Government and Opposition 39/3 (2004): 423-50.

Public opinion in the Iraq crisis: Explaining developments in Italy, the UK, France and Germany. European Political Science 3/1 (2003): 30-35.

The Role of the Nation State on Individual Support for the European Union. European Union Politics 4/2 (2003): 219-41.

Book Chapters

Österreich und Türkei: Im Minenfeld zwischen rationalen Argumenten und historisch-kulturellen Vorbehalten [with Franz Steinbauer], in: A. Giannakopoulos/M. Konstadinos (eds.) Die Türkei-Debatte in Europa, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2005): 107-22.


Miscellaneous

Dalton, Russell (2004) Democratic Challenges - Democratic Choices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Book review in West European Politics, 29/4 (2006).

Working and conference papers

Methodenkonflikt oder Methodenpluralismus? Policy-Forschung auf dem Prüfstand [with Irina Michalowitz], DVPW-Conference, Münster, 2006-9-28/29.

Europeanisation in Austria: the impact of EU-membership on parties and interest groups [with Irina Michalowitz], 3rd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul, 2006-9-21/23.

Europeanisation impact on democratic representation? A theoretical approach [with Irina Michalowitz], ECPR Joint Sessions, Panel on Interest Politics in Postcommunist Democracies, Nicosia, 2006-4-25/30.

Dreams of Democratisation? The European Union and the Barcelona Process [with Raj Chari] ECPR Joint Sessions, Panel on Post-Cold War Democratization in the Muslim World: Domestic, Regional and Global Trends, Granada, 2005-4-14/19.

Attitudes Towards Europe within the Italian Political Parties: an Examination of Parties’ manifestos, 100th APSA-conference, Chicago, IL, 2004-9-2/5.

European Identity Building from the Perspective of Efficiency, 2nd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Bologna, 2004-6-25/27.

Party Leadership and Party Cohesion: Determining Factors of “Government Participation” and Incumbency Success of Right-Wing Parties? [with Robert Klemmensen and Raj Chari] ECPR Joint Sessions, Panel on Effects of Incumbency on Organization of Radical Rightwing Parties, Uppsala, 2004-4-13/18.

Information: Precondition for EU-Support? DGPW (German Association of Political Science)-Workshop on Elections and Political Attitudes, Augsburg, 2002-6-6/7.

La Legittimità dell’Unione Europea: l’influsso del contesto nazionale e le ripercussioni sullo stato nazionale. Working Paper Series, University of Florence, 2001.

Europeanization of Public Opinion? Young-Europeanization-Network-conference, Research Meeting on Europeanization, Siena, 2001-11-2/3.

Support for European Integration: the Impact of National and European Factors on Public Opinion. ECSA-conference, Madison/Wisconsin, 2001-5/6-30/2.

European Identity Building from the Perspective of Efficiency. A Multiple Identity Approach, ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop on National Identities in Europe, Grenoble, 2001-4-6/11.


Public Opinion in the EU: Types of Orientations. Conference on European Integration and International Security, Sofia, 2000-4-14/16.

The Legitimacy of the EU. Conference entitled ‘What do we have in common?’ Bratislava, 1999-11-26/28.

Theses

Legitimacy and Assessment of the European Union in Italy: political and economic factors. Ph.D Thesis, University of Vienna.

Public Relation of the Italian Northern League for their declaration of independence on 15th September 1996. Diplomarbeit, University of Vienna.

IHS Working Papers

The European Union and Morocco. Security through authoritarianism?, IHS Political Science Series 110. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, June 2006 [with Francesco Cavatorta and Raj S. Chari]. (http://www.ihs.ac.at/index.php3?id=450)

Party Position Changes through EU membership? The (Non-)Europeanisation of Austrian, Finish and Swedish Political Parties, IHS Political Science Series 103. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, April 2005 [with Irina Michalowitz]. (http://www.ihs.ac.at/index.php3?id=450)

Contributions to Conferences and Presentations

28.-29.09.2006 ‘Methodenkonflikt oder Methodenpluralismus? Policy-Forschung auf dem Prüfstand’, Paper Presentation at DVPW-Conference, Münster, Ad-hoc-Gruppe ‘Die Zukunft der Policy-Forschung’.

25.-30.04.2006 ‘Europeanisation impact on democratic representation? A theoretical approach’, Paper Presentation at ECPR-Joint Sessions, Nicosia, Panel on ‘Interest Politics in Postcommunist Democracies’.

31.07.2006 ‘The Public View on the EU over Time: an Increase of the Sceptics?’, Presentation at the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, International Summer Program of the University of Vienna, Strobl, Austria.

16.03.2006 ‘The Demography of Growing European Identity’, Internal Presentation at the Departmental Research Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (IHS).

08.-10.09.2005 Panel Chair and Discussant for ‘Europeanisation, governance and public opinion’, 3rd ECPR General Conference, Budapest.

14.-19.04.2005 ‘Dreams of Democratisation? The European Union and the Barcelona Process’ Paper Presentation at ECPR-Joint Sessions, Granada, Panel on ‘Post-Cold War Democratization in the Muslim World: Domestic, Regional and Global Trends’.


18.03.2005 ‘Regional Integration and Domestic Structures: The (Non-)Europeanisation of Political Parties’, Presentation at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

02.-05.09.2004: ‘Continuities and Changes in Attitudes Towards Europe within the Italian Political Parties: an Examination of Parties’ manifestos’, Paper Presentation at 100th APSA-conference, Chicago, Panel on ‘The Europeanization of the Italian political system: politics and policy’ .

24.-26.06.2004: ‘European Identity Building under the Perspective of Efficiency. A Multiple Identity Approach’, Paper Presentation at 2nd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Bologna, Panel on ‘European Identity’.

03.05.2004: Invited Expert to EU-Working Group on ‘Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities’, Amsterdam.

29.04.2004: ‘Continuities and Changes in Attitudes Towards Europe within the Italian Political Parties: an Examination of Parties’ manifestos’, Internal Presentation at the Departmental Research Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (IHS).

14.-18.04.2004: ‘Party Leadership and Party Cohesion: Determining Factors for “Government Participation” and Incumbency Success’, Paper Presentation at ECPR-Joint Sessions, Uppsala, Panel on ‘Effects of Incumbency on Organization of Radical Rightwing Parties’.

03.03.2004: Invited Expert to EU-Working Group on ‘Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities’, Berlin.

02.12.2003: Invited Expert to EU-Working Group on ‘Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities’, Copenhagen.

02.05.2003: ‘The Role of the Nation State on Individual Support for the European Union’ Internal Presentation at the Departmental Research Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin.


I H S — Oliver Treib / Assistant Professor — 31

Oliver Treib E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–169 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since Sep. 2003 Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria.

July 2002 – Aug. 2003 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

Dec. 2002 Ph.D. in political science (Dr. rer. pol.) from the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences, University of Cologne.

April 1999 – Dec. 2002 Doctoral studies at the University of Cologne.

June 1999 – May 2002: Doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

Feb. 1999 Masters degree in political science (Magister Artium), University of Cologne.

Feb. – May 1999 Translation into German of Fritz W. Scharpf’s book “Games Real Actors Play: Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research” (published as “Interaktionsformen: Akteurzen-trierter Institutionalismus in der Politikforschung”, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2000).

Dec. 1995 – Feb. 1999 Undergraduate research assistant to Prof. Fritz W. Scharpf at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

April 1992 – Feb. 1999 Studies in political science, history, and philosophy at the University of Cologne.


Oct. 2006– Feb. 2007 Guest lecturer at the University of Vienna (seminar on the role of political parties in the policy cycle of the European Union).


March – June 2006 Graduate seminar (discussion of participants’ draft dissertation outlines), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (in collaboration with Gerda Falkner and Sylvia Kritzinger).

Since April 2005 Co-Director of the Project "Dead Letter or Living Rights? The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe" funded under the Austrian research programme TRAFO for transdisciplinary research.

March – April 2005 Graduate seminar (discussion of participants’ draft dissertation outlines), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (in collaboration with Gerda Falkner, Sylvia Kritzinger and Irina Michalowitz).

Feb. 2005 Graduate seminar (one week) on “Electronic Tools in EU Research”, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

Since 2005 Member of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)

Dec. 2004 Graduate seminar (six sessions) on “Qualitative Methods in EU Research”, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (in collaboration with Gerda Falkner, Sylvia Kritzinger and Irina Michalowitz).

Since 2004 Co-chair of the section on “Comparative Politics and European Integration” of the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW)

Oct. 2003 – June 2004 Graduate seminar (discussion of participants’ draft dissertation chapters), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

April – Aug. 2003 Guest lecturer at the University of Cologne (seminar on policy making and implementation in the European Union).

Feb. 2003 Guest lecturer at the DFG-Graduate-College “The Future of the European Social Model”, Georg-August-University, Göttingen (one-day seminar on the implementation of EU Directives).

Since 2003 Member of the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW)

December 2002 Guest lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna (one-week seminar on searching and organizing EU-related documents and literature).

Summer 2001 Participation in the Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies, University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences. Course on “Comparative Methodology” (lecturer: Charles Ragin).


Summer 1999 Participation in the MPIfG Summer School on “Comparative Politics”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (lecturer: Herbert Kitschelt).

Referee for Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, European Union Politics, Swiss Political Science Review, European Integration Online Papers, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Manchester University Press, for the working paper series of the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna and for the discussion and working paper series of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.

List of publications

Books

Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Die Bedeutung der nationalen Parteipolitik für die Umsetzung europäischer Sozialrichtlinien. Politik, Verbände, Recht: Die Umsetzung europäischer Sozialpolitik, Bd. 1. Frankfurt/M.: Campus 2004.

Journal Articles

Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to the Implementation of EU Directives Are Only “Sometimes-True Theories”, European Journal of Political Research (with Gerda Falkner and Miriam Hartlapp, forthcoming 2007).

Modes of Governance: Towards Conceptual Clarification, Journal of European Public Policy (with Gerda Falkner and Holger Bähr, forthcoming 2007).

Implementing and Complying with EU Governance Outputs, Living Reviews in European Governance, http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org (forthcoming 2006).

Droit européen et politique nationale: les raisons du retard de l’Allemagne en matière de transposition de la directive européenne contre le racisme, Critique internationale No. 33/2006 (forthcoming).

Was bewirken EU-Richtlinien in der Sozialpolitik? Ein Ost-West-Vergleich, WSI Mitteilungen 59(10), 2006 (with Simone Leiber, forthcoming).

Europäische Sozialpolitik in der nationalen Praxis, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 51(2), 2005, 139-163 (with Gerda Falkner).

Non-Compliance with EU Directives in the Member States: Opposition through the Backdoor?, West European Politics 27(3), 2004, 452-473 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Die Umsetzung von EU-Richtlinien im Zeichen der Parteipolitik: Eine akteurzentrierte Antwort auf die Misfit-These, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 44(4), 2003, 506-528.


Book Chapters

Policy Implementation, in Frank Fischer/Gerald J. Miller/Mara S. Sidney (eds.): Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics, and Methods. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2006 (with Helga Pülzl, forthcoming 2007).

Nationale Rechtsbefolgung und die Zukunft der europäischen Sozialpolitik, in Heinrich Badura (ed.): Soziales Europa – zwischen Nostalgie und Zukunftsorientierung. Waidhofen: Europäische Akademie für Lebensforschung, Integration und Zivilgesellschaft (forthcoming 2006).

The EU and New Social Risks: The Need for a Differentiated Evaluation, in: Klaus Armingeon/Giuliano Bonoli (eds.): The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States. London: Routledge, 2006, 248-263 (with Gerda Falkner).

Der EU-Verfassungsvertrag und die Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Europa, in Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann/Günter Herzig/Christian Dirninger (eds.), Europa Res Publica: Europäischer Konvent und Verfassungsgebung als Annäherung an eine europäische Republik? Wien: Böhlau, 2006, 257-288.

Europäische Sozialpolitik in der nationalen Praxis, in: Alexandra Baum-Ceisig/Anne Faber (eds.): Soziales Europa? Perspektiven des Wohlfahrtsstaates im Kontext von Europäisierung und Globalisierung. Festschrift für Klaus Busch. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2005, 220-238 (with Gerda Falkner).

Die Kooperation der Sozialpartner im Arbeitsrecht: Ein europäischer Weg?, in: Rainer Eising/Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.): Interessenpolitik in Europa. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005, 341-362 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem? Regulative Entwicklung, Problemskizze und potentielle Wirkungsmuster, in: Adrienne Héritier/Fritz W. Scharpf/Michael Stolleis (eds.): European and International Regulation after the Nation State: Different Scopes and Multiple Levels. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004, 115-138 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Die Europäische Union als Herausforderung für die Sozialpolitik der Mitgliedsländer, in: Sieglinde Rosenberger/Emmerich Tálos (eds.): Sozialstaat: Probleme, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven. Wien: Mandelbaum-Verlag, 2003, 14-27 (with Gerda Falkner).

Working Papers

Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to the Implementation of EU Legislation Are Only ‘Sometimes-True Theories’. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2006/22. Florence: European University Institute, http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/06_22.pdf (with Gerda Falkner and Miriam Hartlapp).

Modes of Governance: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) N-05-02, 2005, http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-newgov-N-05-02.pdf (with Gerda Falkner and Holger Bähr).

Der EU-Verfassungsvertrag und die Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Europa. IHS Working Paper Politicial Science Series 99. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004, http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_99.pdf.


The First EU Social Partner Agreement in Practice: Parental Leave in the 15 Member States. IHS Working Paper Political Science Series 96. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004, http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_96.pdf (with Gerda Falkner).

Die Umsetzung von EU-Richtlinien im Zeichen der Parteipolitik: Eine akteurzentrierte Antwort auf die Misfit-These. MPIfG Discussion Paper 03/3. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2003, http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/mpifg_dp/dp03-3.pdf.

Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with European Directives. IHS Working Paper Political Science Series 83. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2002, http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_83.pdf (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp, and Simone Leiber).

Transforming Social Policy in Europe? The EC’s Parental Leave Directive and Misfit in the 15 Member States. MPIfG Working Paper 02/11. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2002, http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/workpap/wp02-11/wp02-11.html (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp, and Simone Leiber).

Book Reviews

Review of Michael Zürn/Christian Joerges (eds.), Law and Governance in Postnational Europe: Compliance beyond the Nation-State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, West European Politics 29(1), 2006, 183-184.

Conference Papers

Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States. Conference paper, ECPR 3rd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul, 21-23 September 2006 (with Gerda Falkner).

Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to the Implementation of EU Legislation Are Only "Sometimes-True Theories". Conference paper, UACES 36th Annual Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 31 August–2 September 2006 (with Gerda Falkner and Miriam Hartlapp).

Alte und neue Steuerungsformen in der EU: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Trends. Conference paper, Autorentagung für das PVS-Sonderheft 2007/2 “Governance und Policy-Making in der Europäischen Union”, Cologne, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (with Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner).

Party Politics, National Interests and the Constitutional Treaty: Cleavage Structures in the Negotiations on the Future of EU Social Policy. Conference paper, 3rd ECPR Conference, 8-10 September 2005, Budapest.

Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to EU Implementation Are Only “Sometimes-True Theories”. Conference paper, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, 14-19 April 2005, Granada (with Miriam Hartlapp and Gerda Falkner).

Explaining EU Policy Implementation Across Countries: Three Modes of Adaptation. Conference paper, EUSA 9th Biennial International Conference, 31 March-2 April 2005, Austin, Texas (with Gerda Falkner).

Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. Conference paper, Kick-off Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Brussels, 10 December 2004 (with Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner).


Implementation across 15 Countries and 6 Directives: Outcomes in the Light of Theoretical Hypotheses, Conference paper, 2nd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, European Consortium for Political Research, Bologna, Italy, 24-26 June 2004.

The EU and New Social Risks: The Need for a Differentiated Evaluation. Conference paper, 14th Biennial Conference of Europeanists, “Europe and the World: Integration, Interdependence, Exceptionalism?”, Chicago, USA, 11-13 March 2004 (with Gerda Falkner).

The EU and New Social Risks: The Case of the Parental Leave Directive. Conference paper, Workshop on “The Politics of New Social Risks”, Lugano, 25-27 September 2003 (with Gerda Falkner).

EU Governance, Misfit, and the Partisan Logic of Domestic Adaptation: An Actor-Centered Perspective on the Transposition of EU Directives. Conference paper, 8th International Biennial Conference, European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Nashville, Tennessee, 27-29 March 2003.

Wo (k)ein Wille ist, ist auch (k)ein Weg: Die politische Logik des Regierens im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Conference paper, MPG 2000+ Workshop “Politik und Recht unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung und Dezentralisierung”, Cologne, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 28-29 November 2002.

Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with European Directives. Conference paper, 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, “The Politics of European Integration: Academic Acquis and Future Challenges”, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Bordeaux, 26-28 September 2002 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Democracy, Social Dialogue and Citizenship in the European Multi-level System. Conference paper, 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics, “The Politics of European Integration: Academic Acquis and Future Challenges“, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Bordeaux, 26-28 September 2002 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Transforming Social Policy in Europe? The EC’s Parental Leave Directive and Misfit in the 15 Member States. Conference paper, 13th International Conference of Europeanists “Europe in the New Millennium: Enlarging, Experimenting, Evolving“, Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, 14-16 March 2002 (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

Contributions to conferences and presentations

21.-23-9.2006: ECPR 3rd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Istanbul. Presentation of a paper on “Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States” (with Gerda Falkner). Discussant of the panel “New modes of governance and enlargement: A better way of coping with accession?”.

31.8.-2.9.2006: UACES 36th Annual Conference, Limerick, Ireland. Presentation of a paper on “Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to EU Implementation Are Only ‘Sometimes-True Theories’” (co-authored with Gerda Falkner and Miriam Hartlapp).


13.-15.7.2006: Autorentagung für das PVS-Sonderheft 2007/2 “Die Europäische Union: Governance und Policy-Making”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany. Presentation of a paper on “Alte und neue Steuerungsformen in der EU: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Trends” (together with Gerda Falkner and Holger Bähr).

6.-7.7.2006: Making the Letters Live: Workshop of the TRAFO Project “Dead Letter or Living Rights?” on Improvement Strategies for the Implementation of Working Time and Equality Laws in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Austria, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria. Presentation of project results gained so far.

26.6.2006: “The Role of Domestic Party Politics in International Negotiations”. Presentation to the Academic Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

16.3.2006: “National and Party Political Cleavages in the European Convention: The Case of Social Policy”. Presentation in the context of the Departmental Research Seminar Political Science, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

2.-3.2.2006: Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Cologne, Germany: Presentation of a paper on “Expansion of the Community Method in European Environmental and Social Policy” (co-authored with Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner, presented together with Holger Bähr).

24.-26.11.2005: “Nationale Rechtsbefolgung und die Zukunft der europäischen Sozialpolitik”. Presentation, 5. Internationale Europakonferenz der Europäischen Akademie für Lebensforschung, Integration und Zivilgesellschaft: Soziales Europa zwischen Nostalgie und Zukunftsorientierung, Waidhofen/Thaya, Austria.

21.10.2005: “Europäische Sozialpolitik in der nationalen Praxis”. Presentation at the conference “Soziales Europa? Perspektiven des Wohlfahrtsstaates im Kontext von Europäisierung und Globalisierung, Tagung zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Klaus Busch”, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.

8.-10.9.2005: 3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, Hungary: Presentation of a paper on “Party Politics, National Interests and the Constitutional Treaty: Cleavage Structures in the Negotiations on the Future of EU Social Policy”.

30.–31.5.2005: NEWGOV Consortium Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy: Presentation of IHS project team’s preliminary results (with Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner).

14.-19.4.2005: ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Granada, Spain. Paper on “Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to EU Implementation Are Only ‘Sometimes-True Theories’” (with Miriam Hartlapp and Gerda Falkner).

29.3.-2.4.2005: EUSA 9th Biennial International Conference, Austin, Texas: Presentation of a paper on “Explaining EU Policy Implementation Across Countries: Three Modes of Adaptation” (together with Gerda Falkner), panel on “Europeanization in the East and West: Are There Different ‘Worlds of Compliance’?“.


10.12.2004: Kick-off Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Brussels, Belgium: Presentation of a paper on “Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification” (co-authored with Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner).

3.12.2004: “The Differential Logics of Implementing EU Directives in the Three Worlds of Compliance”. Presentation in the context of a roundtable discussion including Christian Joerges (European University Institute, Florence), Bedanna Bapuly (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) and Gerda Falkner (IHS, Vienna), Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

30.6.2004: “Complying with Europe? The Impact of EU Minimum Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States.” Presentation to the Academic Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

24.-26.6.2004: 2nd Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Bologna, Italy: Presentation of a paper on “Implementation across 15 Countries and 6 Directives: Outcomes in the Light of Theoretical Hypotheses”, Panel on “EU Minimum Harmonisation in the 15 Member States: Different Worlds of Compliance?”.

13.-15.5.2004: Graduate conference “powi 04”, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, discussant in the working group on “Austria and the EU”.

11.-13.3.2004: Council for European Studies, 14th Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, USA: Presentation of a paper on “The EU and New Social Risks: The Case of the Parental Leave Directive” (joint paper with Gerda Falkner), panel on “New Social Risks and the Welfare State 2”.

29.1.2004: “Europäisches Recht und nationale Politik: Die Umsetzung sozialpolitischer EU-Richtlinien im Ländervergleich.” Presentation in the context of the Departmental Research Seminar Political Science, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

11.12.2003: “Die Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaates in Europa.” Lecture given in the context of a series of lectures on “Eine Verfassung für die Europäische Union: Perspektiven für eine Konsolidierung nach innen und Vertretung nach außen", Institute for Political Science, University of Salzburg, Austria.

25.-27.9.2003: Conference “The Political Regulation of New Social Risks”, Lugano, Switzerland: Presentation of a paper on “The EU and New Social Risks: The Case of the Parental Leave Directive” (joint paper with Gerda Falkner).

15.7.2003: Conference “Der Konventsentwurf des Verfassungsvertrages der EU“, organised by the Cologne Pole of Jean Monnet Chairs and European Integration Specialists, University of Cologne, Germany: Presentation on “Neuerungen im Verfassungsentwurf des Konvents im Bereich Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik”.

3.6.2003: “New Governance and Social Europe: Theory and Practice of Mininum Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Multilevel System.” Final project presentation at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany (with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).


10.4.2003: “Ökonomische Internationalisierung und die Chancen erfolgreicher europäischer Re-Regulierung am Beispiel der EU-Sozialpolitik. Presentation to a delegation of the CDU-Wertekommission, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

27.-29.3.2003: EUSA 8th International Biennial Conference, Nashville, USA: Chair and discussant of the panel “Harmonization vs. Expecting Difference: Domestic Variation in European Integration“. Presentation of a paper on “EU Governance, Misfit, and the Partisan Logic of Domestic Adaptation: An Actor-Centered Perspective on the Transposition of EU Directives”, panel on “Differences between Formal and Informal Policy“.

28.-29.11.2002: MPG 2000+ Workshop “Politik und Recht unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung und Dezentralisierung“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany: Presentation “Die politische Logik des Regierens im europäischen Mehrebenensystem“.

7.10.2002: Joint Research Workshop of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the Max Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods, Bonn, Germany: Presentation “Europäische Vorgaben und die politische Verarbeitung des nationalen Anpassungsbedarfs: Die Umsetzung arbeitsrechtlicher EU-Richtlinien in ländervergleichender Perspektive“.

26.-28.9.2002: 1st Pan-European Conference on European Union Politics “The Politics of European Integration: Academic Acquis and Future Challenges“, Bordeaux, France: Chair of the panel “Towards a European Citizenship“. Presentation of a paper on “Democracy, Social Dialogue and Citizenship in the European Multi-level System“ (joint paper with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber), panel on “Political Communities and Political Communication“. Paper on “Opposition through the Backdoor? The Case of National Non-Compliance with European Directives (joint paper with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber), panel on “Multilevel Governance and Conflict”.

4.-5.7.2002: Conference “Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem“, organised by the DFG-Schwerpunkt „Regieren in der Europäischen Union“ and the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Mannheim, Germany. Presentation of a paper on “Interessendurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem am Beispiel der EU-Sozialpolitik (joint paper with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

8.5.2002: “Die nationale Umsetzung arbeitsrechtlicher EU-Richtlinien: Welche Rolle spielt der Anpassungsbedarf?”. Presentation to the graduate seminar of Prof. Wolfgang Wessels, Department of Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Germany.

14.-16.3.2002: Council for European Studies, 13th Conference of Europeanists “Europe in the New Millennium: Enlarging, Experimenting, Evolving“, Chicago, USA: Presentation of a paper on “Transforming Social Policy in Europe? The EC’s Parental Leave Directive and Misfit in the 15 Member States”.


21.-22.2.2002: MPG 2000+ Workshop “Politik und Recht unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung und Dezentralisierung“, Max Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods, Bonn, Germany. Paper on “EG-Richtlinien als soziales Korrektiv im europäischen Mehrebenensystem? Regulative Entwicklung, Problemskizze und potentielle Wirkungsmuster“ (joint paper with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

16.-18.11.2001: Conference “Zukunft und Perspektiven des Wohlfahrtsstaates“, organised by the Sektion “Politik und Ökonomie” of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Hagen, Germany: Presentation on “Mehrebenenpolitik in der Europäischen Union: Wo ist der Ort der Sozialpolitik? (together with Gerda Falkner, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber).

31.5.2001: “Policy Misfit and the Implementation of EC Social Policy Directives”. Presentation to the Academic Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

20.3.2001: “Die Transposition von arbeitsrechtlichen EU-Richtlinien und ihre Erklärung: Welche Rolle spielt der Policy-Misfit?” Presentation to the graduate seminar of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

4.5.2000: “Die Umsetzung arbeitsrechtlicher EG-Richtlinien im Ländervergleich”, Presentation to the graduate seminar of Prof. Wolfgang Wessels, Department of Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Germany.

17.1.2000: “Die Implementation sozialpolitischer EG-Richtlinien”. Presentation to the graduate seminar of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany.

Theses

Europäische Vorgaben, nationaler Anpassungsbedarf und seine politische Verarbeitung: Eine ländervergleichende Studie über die Umsetzung arbeitsrechtlicher EU-Richtlinien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Deutschland, den Niederlanden, Großbritannien und Irland. Dissertation, Köln: Universität zu Köln, 2002.

Institutionen, Akteure und Entscheidungen in der EU: Die Auswirkungen des Maastrichter Sozialprotokolls auf die Entscheidungen in der Sozialpolitik der Europäischen Gemeinschaft. Magisterarbeit, Köln: Universität zu Köln, 1999.

Other Publications

Scharpf, Fritz W.: Interaktionsformen: Akteurzentrierter Institutionalismus in der Politikforschung. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2000 (translation into German of “Games Real Actors Play: Actor Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research”, Boulder: Westview, 1997)

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Andreas Wimmel E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–217 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since Sep. 2006 Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria

Jan. 2003 – Aug. 2006 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of the State” (Sonderforschungsbereich “Staatlichkeit im Wandel”), funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), University of Bremen, Germany

Sep. 2005 – Juli 2006 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

Nov. 2004 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Political Science, University of Bremen, Germany

Dec. 2000 – Dec. 2002 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Chair: Political and Social Theory, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Peters, University of Bremen, Germany

Jan 1998 – Sep. 2000 Undergraduate Student Assistant and Tutor at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Chair: Political and Social Theory, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Peters, University of Bremen, Germany

Oct. 1996 – July 2000 Student of Political and Social Science at the University of Bremen, Germany


Teaching Seminars on Political and Social Theory, Democracy and Governance in the European Union, and European Public Sphere at University of Bremen, Germany


Reviewer Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), European Integration online Papers (EIoP), SFB-TransState Working Paper, EUI Working Paper, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (Research Program >node<)

Memberships German Association of Political Science (Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, DVPW), Section: International Politics

List of Publications

Books

Transnationale Diskurse in Europa. Der Streit um den Türkei-Beitritt in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien, Frankfurt/Main: Campus 2006

Journal Articles

Segmented Europeanization. Exploring the Legitimacy of the European Union from a Public Discourse Perspective, forthcoming 2007 in Journal of Common Market Studies (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, and K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw, and S. Sifft)

Transnationale Diskurse in der europäischen Medienöffentlichkeit: Die Debatte zum EU-Beitritt der Türkei, in Politische Vierteljahresschrift 46 (3), 2005, 459-483

National and Transnational Public Spheres: The Case of the EU, in European Review 13 (1), 2005, 139-160 (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw and S. Sifft)

Transnationale Diskurse. Zur Analyse politischer Kommunikation in der europäischen Medienöffentlichkeit, in Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 11 (1), 2004, 7-25

Sind sozialpolitische Interventionen aus liberaler Perspektive wertvoll? Thesen zum Spannungsverhältnis von persönlicher Freiheit und sozialer Sicherheit in modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, in Zeitschrift für Politik 50 (1), 2003, 53-73

Book Chapters

Die Transnationalisierung von Öffentlichkeiten am Beispiel der Europäischen Union, in Stephan Leibfried and Michael Zürn (eds.) Transformation des Staates? Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2006, 230-261 (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw, and S. Sifft)

Segmentierte Europäisierung - Trends und Muster der Transnationalisierung von Öffentlichkeit in Europa, in Wolfgang Langenbucher and Michael Latzer (eds.) Europäische Öffentlichkeit und medialer Wandel. Eine transdisziplinäre Perspektive, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, 214-231 (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw, and S. Sifft)

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National and Transnational Public Spheres: The Case of the EU, in Stephan Leibfried and Michael Zürn (eds.) Transformations of the State? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 139-160 (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw and S. Sifft)

Working Papers

Segmented Europeanization. The Transnationalization of Public Spheres in Europe. Trends and Patterns. SFB-TransState Working Paper 37/2006, Bremen (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw and S. Sifft)

Transnationale Diskurse in der europäischen Medienöffentlichkeit: Die Debatte zum EU-Beitritt der Türkei. SFB-TransState Working Paper 29/2005, Bremen

Publizistische Beiträge zu einer diskursiven Öffentlichkeit. Eine themenübergreifende Inhaltsanalyse deutscher Zeitungen und Zeitschriften. InIIS-Arbeitspapier 30/2004, Bremen (with B. Peters and T. Schultz)

Conference Papers

Jenseits des Bosporus? Der öffentliche Diskurs um die EU-Mitgliedschaft der Türkei in deutschen, französischen und britischen Qualitätszeitungen. Paper presented at the 23rd DVPW-Congress Staat und Gesellschaft – fähig zur Reform? (Ad-hoc-Group “Ideelle Grundlagen außenpolitischen Handelns”), 25-29 September 2006, Münster, Germany

Beyond the Bosphorus? Comparing German, French and British Discourses on Turkey’s Application to join the European Union. Paper presented at the EMEDIATE Working Group, 1 March 2006, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

Transnationale Diskurse in der europäischen Medienöffentlichkeit. Paper presented at the Conference Offene Tagung der DVPW-Sektion Internationale Politik, 06-07 October 2005, Mannheim, Germany

The Europeanization of Public Spheres: Each Country on its own? Paper presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 26-30 May 2005, New York, USA (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw and S. Sifft).

Segmented Europeanization: Persistence and Change of Public Spheres in Europe. Paper presented at the Second Pan-European Conference on EU Politics Implications of a Wider Europe, 24-26 June 2004, Bologna, Italy (with B. Peters, M. Brüggemann, K. Kleinen-v. Königslöw and S. Sifft)

Soziales Handeln auf drei Ebenen. Die Einflussfaktoren bei der Analyse politische Integrations- und Reformfähigkeit im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Paper presented at the Conference Forschungslogik und Methoden der Internationalen Beziehungen und der Europaforschung, 2-4 April 2003, Hofgeismar, Germany

Reviews

Review of the book: Europa in den Medien. Die europäische Integration im Spiegel nationaler Öffentlichkeit (by Hans-Jörg Trenz), in Politische Vierteljahresschrift 47 (3), 2006, 350-351


Theses

Die Konstitution transnationaler Diskurse in der europäischen Medienöffentlichkeit, untersucht am Beispiel der öffentlichen Debatte zu einem eventuellen EU-Beitritt der Türkei in deutschen, französischen und britischen Qualitätszeitungen. Dissertation, Bremen: University of Bremen, 2004

Der liberale Wert des Sozialstaates. Theoretische Diskurse zur freiheitlichen Perspektive sozialpolitischer Interventionen. Diplomarbeit, Bremen: University of Bremen, 2000

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4. Project Researchers

Holger Bähr E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–115 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since Oct. 2004 Project assistant at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; project title: New Modes of Governance (NEWGOV)

Oct. 2003 – July 2004 Research assistant at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz

Since Sept. 2003 Doctoral student of Political Science at the University of Konstanz

April 2003 Graduate, Diplom-Verwaltungswissenschaftler (Master of Arts in Public Policy and Management)

Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2001 Student at the University College Cork – National University of Ireland; grantee of the European exchange programme ERASMUS

Sept. 1999 – Oct. 1999 Intern at the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, Landesverband Baden-Württemberg

Aug. 1998 – March 1999 Intern at the Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport of the Land Brandenburg

Oct. 1997 – Sept. 1998 Member of the student union (Allgemeiner Studierenden-ausschuss) and the academic senate (Großer Senat) of the University of Konstanz

Oct. 1996 – April 2003 Student of Public Policy and Management (Verwaltungs-wissenschaft) at the University of Konstanz


June 2006 Participation in the 1st NEWGOV-CONNEX Training Course, European University Institute, Florence: Presentation of a paper on “Modes of Governance: Policy Instruments in European Environmental Policy and European Social Policy”


July 2004 Participation in the Polnet Summer School on Network Analysis, Konstanz

May 2000–July 2000 and Lecturing assistant (Tutor) for the course “Political April 2002–July 2002 Systems in International Comparison” of Professor Volker

Schneider

Journal Articles

Modes of Governance: Towards Conceptual Clarification. Journal of European Public Policy (2006) (forthcoming) (with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

Working and Conference Papers

Modes of Governance: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. European Governance Papers, No. N-05-02 (2005). http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-newgov-N-05-02.pdf (with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

Expansion of the Community Method in European Environmental and Social Policy. NEWGOV-Deliverable, No. 01/D18 (2005). http://www.eu-newgov.org/database/DELIV/D01D18_Expansion_Com_Method_Environ_Social_Policy.pdf (with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification. Conference Paper, Kick-off Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Brussels, 10 December 2004 (with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

Contributions to Conferences and Presentations

13.-15.07.2006: Autorentagung für das Sonderheft der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift “Governance und Policy-Making in der Europäischen Union”, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne: Presentation of a paper on “Alte und neue Steuerungsformen in der EU: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und empirische Trends” (co-authored with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

10.12.2004: Kick-off Workshop of NEWGOV Cluster One, Brussels, Belgium: Presentation of a paper on “Modes of Governance, Old and New: A Note Towards Conceptual Clarification” (co-authored with Oliver Treib and Gerda Falkner).

Theses

Probleme der Implementation von Umweltpolitik in der Europäischen Union. Eine vergleichende Policy-Analyse am Beispiel der IVU-Richtlinie, Diplomarbeit, University of Konstanz [http://www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/kops/volltexte/2003/1035]

Miscellaneous

Politikfeldanalyse. Akteure, Strukturen und Diskurse in der öffentlichen Politik (Volker Schneider and Frank Janning in collaboration with Holger Bähr, in preparation, approx. 30 pages)

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Patrick Scherhaufer E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–189 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since March 2006 Managing Editor of the European Integration online Papers (EIoP), http://eiop.or.at/eiop

Since January 2006 Webdesign and Webhosting of http://eiop.or.at/eiop (European Integration online Papers)

Since January 2006 Secretary General of the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA)

Since Sept. 2004 Project Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; Project title: Connecting Excellence on European Governance (CONNEX) funded by the European Union’s 6th

Framework Programme, Priority 7. Managing Editor of the European Governance Papers (EUROGOV, http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov) and the Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG, http://europeangovernance.livingreviews.org)

Sept. 2004 Graduate, IHS-Diploma, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Since March 2004 Webdesign and Webhosting of http://www.oegpw.at (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft)

Oct. 2002–Sept. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Since Dec. 2003 Webdesign and Webhosting of http://www.fwu.at (Forum Österreichischer Wissenschaftler für Umweltschutz)

Since Nov. 2003 Webdesign, Webhosting and Webediting of http://www.ihs.ac.at/powi04 (Powi04 Die Graduiertenkonferenz)

Since Oct. 2002 Doctoral Student at the University of Vienna, Austria (thesis in the field of European Integration and Nuclear Safety).

June 2002 Diploma in Policial Science at the University of Vienna.


April 2001–Jan. 2002 Officer in charge of education at St. Anna Children’s Hospital in Vienna (responsible for the post-graduate medical education and the foreign medical matters)

Since Nov. 2001 Webdesign, Webhosting and Webediting of http://www.renitent.at (Die renitenten KonsumentInnen)

Since March 2000 Webdesign, Webhosting and Webediting of http://www.aai.at (Anti Atom International)

Oct. 1994–June 2002 Student of Political Science, Contemporary History and Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria.


April–May 2004 Guest lecturer at the VHS-Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

July 2003 Participation at the Summer School “The Politics and Economics of Renewable Energy” in Salzburg, Austria

Editions

powi04 - Neue Impulse in der Politikwissenschaft, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ÖZP), Nomos, No. 2, Vienna 2005 [with Claudia Brunner and Vedran Dzihic]


Living Reviews – Innovative Resources for Scholarly Communication. Bridging Diverse Spheres of Disciplines and Organisational Structures, conference paper, 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB), Bansko / Bulgaria, June 14-16, 2006 [with Claus Dalchow, Michael Nentwich, Christina Weyher].

The governance of wind energy supply: Policy convergence and diversity in Austria and Germany, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Budapest, September 2005.

The scope and limits of macro-theories in comparison to middle-range theories in explaining European Integration, conference paper, ECPR – Second Pan-European Conference, Bologna June 2004.

Werden umweltrelevante Risikos überhaupt noch kommuniziert? Implikationen einer Risikokommunikation – analysiert entlang dreier Großprojekte in der Ostregion Österreichs, conference paper, Powi04 Graduiertenkonferenz, Vienna May 2004.

Theses

The Management of Nuclear Safety within the European Community. A Process of European Integration?, 2004, thesis, postgraduate course ‘European Integration’ 2002-2004, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer lokalen umweltverträglichen Energieversorgungspolitik, 2002, master thesis, University of Vienna, Austria.

Lectures

Innovative publishing of state-of-the-art articles: The concept of Living Reviews, Presentation, Berlin 4 Open Access – From Promise to Practice, Potsdam/Golm, March 29-31, 2006.

Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG), Presentation, Editorial Board meeting of the Mid-term Conference, EU-Network of Excellence CONNEX, Mannheim, November 3-5, 2005.

Europäische Umweltpolitik, Guest lecturer at the Volkshochschule (VHS) Alsergrund, Vienna, April-May 2004.

Miscellaneous

Lokale und umweltverträgliche Energieversorgungspolitik. Die Möglichkeiten und die Grenzen; in: Kommunal, Nr.6, 2004, S.50-51.

Book review – Miller, Clark A. / Edwards, Paul N. (eds.): Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance, The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., London 2001; in: ECPR Green Politics Newsletter, Vol.2, Issue 2.

Dokumentation: EU-Erweiterung und nukleare Sicherheit. Anti Atom International (ed.), Vienna 1999.


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Emmanuelle Causse E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 43-1-59991-172 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since April 2005 Project Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Vienna, Austria. Project: “Dead Letter or Living Rights? - The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe”, special focus on Hungary.

May-July 2003 Trainee, Friends of Europe, Think-Tank organising conferences and debates on EU matters and policies, Brussels, Belgium.

Project: “Hearing from Europe”, a week-long Europe-wide video-conference in the 28 member states of the European Convention.

2002 –2003 Diploma, European Institute of Public Affairs and Lobbying (EIPAL), Brussels, Belgium.

June-July 2002 Trainee, Permanent Regional Representation of Ile de France, Brussels, Belgium.

Monitoring and provision of information about the different EU regional programs, advice on building projects and lobbying for the region and local authorities on different issues.

September-December 2001 Stage, European Parliament, DG4 (Research), Division for Social and Legal Affairs, Committee of “Justice and Home Affairs”, Brussels, Belgium

Following up of Committee meetings, researching and writing up a “Report on drugs legislations in EU Member States”.

2000 – 2003 Master in European Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Summer 2001 Freelance Journalist, French local newspaper, Centre Presse, Rodez, France.


1997-2000 Bachelor Degree, Political Sciences Institute, (IEP, Sciences Po), Speciality: Public, European and International law, Toulouse University, France.

1996 – 1999 Bachelor Degree, Law, Toulouse University, France.

Other achievements / activities

Since August 2004 Teacher, Business French, CEF, International Language Institute, Vienna, Austria.

2003-2004 Degree in German, Level Perfection 3, German Language Courses, Vienna International University Courses, Austria.

Summer 1999 Banking Assistant, Crédit Agricole, Bozouls, France.

1998 – 2000 Participation in several Conferences at University Level, IEP, Toulouse, France.

Summer 1996 Participation in Humanitarian and Cultural French Mission, Benin

Academic works

The Action of Sub-national Authorities within the EU, European Institute of Public Affairs and Lobbying (EIPAL), Brussels, 2003

French sub-national authorities within the EU: Do they have any influence on the EU decision-making process? Aalborg University, 2003

Les Législations contre la Drogue dans les États Membres, European Parliament, 2001

Why is it so difficult to develop an efficient Common Foreign Security and Policy in the EU? Aalborg University, 2001

European Union Citizenship, Aalborg University, 2000

Working and Conference Papers

Post-Accession Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe: Transposition and Application after the Age of Carrots and Sticks, paper represented at: epsNet Plenary Conference 2006, Europe in Context – Debating the Project, Budapest. [with Falkner, Gerda; Wiedermann, Clemens].

Theses

Regional influence on the EU decision-making process, A comparative study, Master Thesis, Aalborg University, 2003

Les Crimes contre l´Humanité en Droit International, Thesis, IEP, Toulouse, 2000

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Petra Furtlehner E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–172 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since April 2005 Project Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Vienna, Austria. Project: “Dead Letter or Living Rights? - The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe”, special focus on Slovenia.

Nov. 2004 Ph.D. in political science (Dr. phil.) with distinction; thesis on the role of the European Parliament in the European Convention.

May – June 2004 Assistant to MEP Dr. Maria Berger during the election campaign to the European Parliament.

April – July 2003 Stagiaire at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, office of MEP Dr. Maria Berger.

July 2002 Intern at the Landesregierung Upper Austria, Department of Transport.

Feb. – June 2002 Doctoral student at the University of Paris XII, Val de Marne, France.

Nov. 2001 – Nov. 2004 Doctoral studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Nov. 2001 Masters degree in political science (Mag. phil.) with distinction; thesis on the development of the Third pillar of the European Union.

Sept. 1995 – Nov. 2001 Studies in political science (major) and a combination of law and history (minor) at the University of Salzburg, Austria, focus on European Integration.


April – July 2003 Grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture for unpaid internships with international and supranational organizations.


Dec. 2002 Grant from the University of Salzburg for excellent study success.

Feb. – June 2002 Scholarship, European exchange programme - ERASMUS.

Theses

Das Europäische Parlament im Europäischen Konvent – Höhepunkt seiner fünfzigjährigen Bemühungen um Einfluss auf die europäische Integration. Dissertation, Universität Salzburg, 2004.

Europäische Zusammenarbeit in den Bereichen Justiz und Inneres: TREVI, Schengen und die dritte Säule der EU nach Maastricht und Amsterdam. Diplomarbeit, Universität Salzburg, 2001.

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Marianne Schulze E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–180 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Career

Since March 2005 Project Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Vienna, Austria. Project: “Dead Letter or Living Rights? - The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe”, special focus on Slovakia.

Aug. 2004 – Feb. 2005 International Service for Human Rights, New York Office;

Monitoring of General Assembly and Security Council, UN Headquarters, New York; Report and Analysis of 59th General Assembly.

Monitoring and Analysis of the 4th and 5th Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

June 2004 – Aug. 2004 Intern, Crimes of War Project, Washington, D.C.

May 2004 Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Human Rights, Magna Cum Laude, Center for Civil & Human Rights, Law School, University of Notre Dame

2001 – 2003 Legal adviser, General Settlement Fund, Parliament of the Republic of Austria, Vienna

March 2002 Magistra iuris (J.D. equivalent), University of Vienna

2001 Intern, Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, research on religious freedom with particular focus on the “Falun Gong Movement”, Hong Kong, S.A.R., PR China

2000 Intern, American Society of International Law, contributions to International Law in Brief and International Legal Materials, Washington, D.C.

1998 Joint-Study-Program, Law School, University of Sydney, Australia


1995 - 2002 Student of law, University of Vienna


2003/04 Fulbright Scholarship

2001 Hong Kong Austrian Educational Fund Scholarship

2001 University of Vienna, Research Scholarship

1998 Joint Study Program Scholarship, University of Vienna

Since 2003 Editorial Board, Juridikum – Zeitschrift im Rechtsstaat

Theses

Safeguards for the Democratic Dialogue – The Protection of the Functioning of Press Freedom under International Law, Master’s Thesis, University of Notre Dame, IN

Employee’s Entitlements - Transition of Businesses in Australia and Austria - a Comparative Analysis, University of Sydney, Australia

Publications

General Assembly of the United Nations: Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, 5th Session, Analysis, February 2005 (http://www.ishr.ch/About%20UN/Reports%20and%20Analysis/GA/GA-5thAdHocCommitteePWD.pdf)

Human Rights Monitor, No. 62, Overview & Report, 59th General Assembly, Terror & Human Rights – Security Council, http://www.ishr.ch/About%20UN/Reports%20and%20Analysis/GA/GA-59thSessionReport.pdf and http://www.ishr.ch/About%20UN/Reports%20and%20Analysis/SC-Highlights2004.pdf

General Assembly of the United Nations: Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, 4th Session, Analysis, November 2004 http://www.ishr.ch/About%20UN/Reports%20and%20Analysis/GA/GA-4thAdHocCommitteePWD.pdf

Der Entschädigungsfonds – Entstehung und Grundlagen, Juridikum 1/2003, 38 (mit Michael Schoiswohl)

„The chilling effect“: Die Kritik des Weisenberichtes an der [Un]Kultur der seriellen Klagen, in: Österreich allein zuhause 32, Rubina Möhring (Hsg.), 2001

The Wise Men Report, 40 International Legal Materials 101 (2001)

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International Panel of Eminent Personalities: Report on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda & Surrounding Events, 40 International Legal Materials 140 (2001)

U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1318, 40 International Legal Materials 251 (2001)

Miscellaneous

Im Rosengarten von Schwarz-Blau, Das Jüdische Echo, 2003

Wenn zwei uneins sind, Dossier: Mediation, Der Standard, Album, 14. Juni 2003

Gewöhnung an die Entwöhnung von Zwischentönen, Das Jüdische Echo, 2002

Eine chinesische Erosion, Der Standard, Album Spezial Pressefreiheit, 28. April 2002

Chop sui generis, Juridikum, 1/2002, 47


I H S — Clemens Wiedermann / Project Researcher — 59

Clemens Wiedermann E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0043–1–59991–180 Fax: 0043–1–59991–171

Carreer

Since March 2006 Teaching Assistant, University of Vienna, Department of Government, Univ. Prof. Dr. Emmerich Talos.

Since April 2005 Project Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Vienna, Austria. Project: “Dead Letter or Living Rights? - The Practice of EU Social Law in Central and Eastern Europe”, special focus on Czech Republic.

Dec. 2005 Graduate, academic degree Mag. iur. (Master of Law).

Dec. 2004 Graduate, academic degree Mag. phil. (Master of Philosophy) in Political Science; master thesis on the recent reforms in Austrian’s Pension System.

Aug. 2003 – Sept. 2003 Intern at the Supreme Criminal Court of Vienna.

2001 – 2003 Several ‘summer schools’ in Brest, Dublin, Paris, Cambridge.

Aug. 2001 Fund raising for environment NGO’s (NABU and WWF) in Southern Germany.

Oct. 2001 – Oct. 2005 Student of Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Austria. Focus on European Law, Constitutional Law and Basic Rights.

Oct. 2000 – Dec. 2004 Student of Political Science and History at the University of Vienna, Austria. Focus on Systems of Social Security and Social Policy of the EU.

1999 – 2001 Participation in several research projects on public opinion (ISMA – Institute for Strategic Market and Opinion Research).


Journal article

“Pensionsreform” in Schwarz-Blau/Orange, Kurswechsel (BEIGEWUM, Sonderzahl Verlag) 2/2006 [mit Emmerich Tálos].


Post-Accession Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe: Transposition and Application after the Age of Carrots and Sticks, paper represented at: epsNet PLENARY CONFERENCE 2006, Europe in Context – Debating the Project, Budapest. [with Falkner, Gerda; Causse, Emmanuelle].

Theses

Pensionsreform 2003 – Sozialstaatsrückbau im Spiegel der Sozialpolitikforschung, master thesis (advisor: Prof. Emmerich Tálos), University of Vienna.

Miscellaneous

Strafrecht in der ersten und dritten Säule der EU am Beispiel des Umweltstrafrechts (Criminal Law in the First and Third Pillar of the EU. The Example of Environmental Criminal Law) (www.juridicum.at)

Bindung des Strafgerichts an finanzbehördliche Entscheidungen? – Über die Bindungs-problematik zwischen Abgabenverfahren und Finanzstrafverfahren (www.juridicum.at)

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5. Scholars (Ph.D. Students)

Nicole Alecu de Flers E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-263 Fax : 01-59991-171

Education

Since Aug. 2005 Participant in the joint research and training programme “European Foreign and Security Policy Studies” by VolkswagenStiftung, Compagnia di San Paolo and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Since Oct. 2004 Postgraduate Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Since March 2004 Ph.D. student of Political Science, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Vienna, Austria

Dec. 2003 Diplom (Master-equivalent degree) in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (grade: very good)

Oct. 2000–Dec. 2003 Student of Political Science, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Nov. 1998–March 2003 Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)

Oct. 1998–Sept. 2000 Student of Political Science, Hochschule für Politik, University of Munich, Germany

Sept. 1997–June 1998 Student of European Studies, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

Career

Since winter term 2005/2006 Lecturer, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Vienna (Seminar “The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union”)


March 2001–Feb. 2004 Research Assistant, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, Germany

Sept. 2001–Oct. 2001 Intern, Berlin Office of a Member of the German Parliament

Jan. 2000–Aug. 2000 Research Assistant, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich, Germany

Aug. 1999–Oct. 1999 Intern, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich, Germany

Other Achievements / Activities

May 2006 Presentation on “Europeanisation of Small State Foreign Policies? Effects of the CFSP on the National Foreign Policies of Ireland and Austria” at the Jean Monnet Workshop on Europeanisation II, European Community Institute, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 25-26 May, 2006

Since Feb. 2006 Referee for the European Integration online Papers (EIoP)

Sept. 2005 Presentation on “National adaptation to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the EU? The effects of the CFSP on the foreign policies of Belgium, Ireland and Austria” at the autumn seminar “European Foreign and Security Policy after Enlargement” in the framework of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme in Budapest, Hungary, 27 September – 2 October 2005

Sept. 2005 Research sojourn at the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland

July 2005 Presentation of a paper on “Convergence of national foreign policies? The effects of CFSP on the national foreign policies of the EU member states”, Panel on “Europeanization of Foreign Policy” at the LSE/KCL European Foreign Policy Conference 2005 in London, UK, 1-2 July 2005

April 2005 Presentation on “Theorising the effects of CFSP on national foreign policy and the concept of Europeanisation”, New Scholars’ Roundtable on “Theoretical Perspectives on the CFSP” at the Third Plenary Meeting of FORNET in Brussels, Belgium, 22-23 April 2005


Sept. 2002 Working group “Ways to a European Constitution” of the summer academy by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in St. Johann, South Tyrol, Italy

Nov. 1999–April 2000 Project group “Model United Nations” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, and participation in the “National Model United Nations 2000” in New York, USA

Aug. 1999 Summer Symposium 1999 by Austin College and the Institute of Experiential Learning on the topic “U.S. Foreign Policy in Transition” in Washington, D.C., USA

Sept. 1998 Seminar “Deepening and widening of the European Union and its relations to North America” by the Centre International de Formation Européenne in Klingenthal, France (full scholarship)

July 1998 American European Summer Academy “The Relations between Europe and North America” by the Centre International de Formation Européenne in Lochau am Bodensee, Austria (scholarship; final grade: A)

1995–1997 Voluntary work for the German Youth For Understanding Committee (organisation for international youth exchange)

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English (fluent, TOEFL score 293/300), French (good), Japanese (fair)

Publications

Theorising the effects of the CFSP on national foreign policy and the concept of Europeanisation. CFSP Forum Vol. 3 (2005), No. 5, 13-15, <http://www.fornet.info/CFSPforum.html>.

The EU and Inter-regional Cooperation, in: Christopher Hill and Michael Smith (eds), International Relations and the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 317-342 (with Elfriede Regelsberger).

CFSP Watch 2004 – Germany. FORNET CFSP Watch Annual Reports 2004, <http://www.fornet.info/CFSPannualreports2004/CFSP%20Watch%202004%20Germany.pdf>.

Eine europäische Verfassung? Deutsche und französische Konzeptionen zwischen Intergouvernementalismus und Supranationalismus. DOKUMENTE, Zeitschrift für den deutsch-französischen Dialog Vol. 58 (2002), No. 5, 17–21 (with Daniel Göler).


Research Interests

Current Research

EU foreign policy and external relations. International relations. Foreign policy analysis. The relationship between foreign policy cooperation in the EU and the national foreign policies of the EU Member States.The concept of Europeanisation.

Dissertation Outline

Title: National Adaptation to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the EU? The effects of the CFSP on the foreign policies of Ireland and Austria (September 2006)

Puzzle and Research Questions

Although regarding some cases such as the conflict on Iraq in 2003 the EU member states did not speak with one voice, there has been a significant development since European Political Cooperation (EPC) – the forerunner of the CFSP – was created in 1970. Whereas foreign policy cooperation was of an informal nature at first, in the meantime a duty of the EU member states to consult one another was formalized in legal agreements. In practice, much of the foreign policy making process has been transferred from the national capitals to Brussels. More and more areas have been opened up to EPC/CFSP and an evolution towards a greater convergence of member states’ positions as well as the emergence of shared sets of policy understanding, e.g. over the Palestinian issue, can be observed. An ‘acquis politique’ has evolved, which provides the direction for further cooperation of the member states. Furthermore, participants in the process of EPC/CFSP have pointed to a ‘coordination reflex’ of foreign policy makers. It seems that the national foreign policies of the EU member states not only constrain (or enable) a common European foreign policy but that at the same time these national foreign policies themselves are affected by the CFSP. Thus, the basic aim of this study is to further explore this seemingly reciprocal relationship by focusing on the side of it which has received less attention so far. The key analytical question therefore is: In how far have the national foreign policies of EU member states been adapted or transformed by operating within an EU institutional context, and furthermore, how can we explain and understand this process of Europeanisation?

Theories and Hypotheses

This project principally makes a case for the applicability and utility of the concept of Europeanisation for the area of foreign policy. However, as the mode of policy-making within the CFSP is still fundamentally different from most policy fields which have been at the centre of attention of Europeanisation studies so far, it is argued that in applying Europeanisation to foreign policy, the analytical framework has to be refined. It is assumed that there are two basic dimensions of the Europeanisation of the foreign policies of EU


member states: Europeanisation due to adaptational pressures from the CFSP and Europeanisation through the interactions of the member states within the framework of the CFSP. Whereas the former focuses on a vertical direction, the latter takes into account that there can also be horizontal mechanisms of Europeanisation. The further theoretical base is provided by the rational choice and sociological variants of the so-called ‘new institutionalism’, which are based on different logics of action regarding how states determine and pursue their national interests and which make different assumptions about the specific (causal) nexus between institutions and (possible) political changes. Therefore, the analysis is led by two basic hypotheses concerning the Europeanisation of national foreign policies: from a rationalist perspective, it can principally be expected that the outcomes of the CFSP will only be accepted if they fit the exogenously given national preferences. If there is an adaptation this is expected to be strategic adaptation, i.e. there might possibly be changes of the strategies of the actors, while their preferences are regarded as stable. In contrast, a social constructivist approach would assume that the preferences of the member states are not given and that the CFSP can also have more profound effects on the preferences and perceptions of identity of actors." In addition, the rationalist and the social constructivist perspective each assume different further mediating factors, which also come into play and may hinder or facilitate the Europeanisation of national foreign policy and which thus may help to explore and explain common features and possible variations in the Europeanisation of the national foreign policies of the EU member states.

Methods

Besides the evaluation of the secondary literature on Irish and Austrian foreign policy, the project will draw on a content analysis of documents, statements and reports on the foreign policy of the national governments (e.g. the Austrian Foreign Policy Yearbooks). To be able to differentiate the conclusions drawn on the basis of this material and to determine whether they are valid, it is further intended to conduct semi-structured interviews with senior officials and diplomats of the foreign ministries of the three states. In general, the method of analysis which is applied is process-tracing, i.e. it is precisely examined ‘who knows and does what, when and why’. This method is particularly suitable for addressing the problem of equifinality and for differentiating between changes of foreign policy pointing to Europeanisation and changes caused by other phenomena. In principle, the search for generalizable empirical regularities and systematic knowledge, which might be valid beyond the cases at hand, is not to be at the expense of detailed and thorough historical analysis.


Previous Research

“‘Europeanisation’ of national foreign policy? Effects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU on the foreign policy of Austria”, Aug. 2003, Diplomarbeit, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Abstract

By assuming that the national foreign policies of the member states not only constrain or enable CFSP but that these national foreign policies themselves are simultaneously affected by CFSP this thesis takes up a new approach towards investigating the outlook for a common European foreign policy. It particularly uses the concept of Europeanisation – which has received much attention in Public Policy Analysis in recent years – for analysing whether the national foreign policy of Austria has changed due to its participation in CFSP. Three dimensions of the foreign policy of Austria are examined: foreign policy institutions and processes; instruments and strategies; foreign policy objectives and positions. An extensive Europeanisation especially concerning foreign-policy making but also as to the overall content of foreign policy is detected. While the evaluation of the findings shows that on the whole, the participation in CFSP and the Europeanisation of its foreign policy entails more advantages than constraints for Austria and thus can be seen as a welcome opportunity, particularly the changes in the interpretation of neutrality also point to effects on the foreign policy identity. In conclusion it is suggested that not only the foreign policy processes and strategies have changed but that CFSP has possibly also affected the perceptions of foreign policy challenges and Austrian foreign policy preferences.

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Juan Casado-Asensio E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-223 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2003–July 2004 Master of Advanced International Studies (M.A.I.S.), University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2002–July 2003 Special Programme in International Studies (S.P.I.S.), Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria

Oct. 1999–July 2002 Bachelor of Sciences in Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Career

June 2003–March 2004 Intern/Research Assistant, Strategic Research and Economy Branch, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (U.N.I.D.O.), Vienna, Austria

March 2003–Oct. 2003 Junior Research Assistant/Business Analyst Business and Science Working Group, Danube Region Business Conference, Vienna, Austria, and Bucharest, Romania

July 2002–Sept. 2002 Project Assistant, Tourism Board, Malaga Town Council, Malaga, Spain


Other Achievements/Activities

April 2004 Observer in European Commission, Office for the High Representative (OHR), OSCE, United Nations High Commissariat for Refugees (UNCHR), Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jan. 2004 Observer in Czech Foreign Ministry and diverse Austrian Financial Institutions, Prague, Czech Republic

July 2003 Working Group Secretary, External Relations WG, Second Session of the Convention for European Students, Universitá Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

March 2003 Observer in European Parliament, Council of Europe and European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, Observer in European Courts of Justice, European Court of Auditors and European Investment Bank, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

Feb. 2003 Observer in European Commission, European Parliament and NATO, Brussels and Mons, Belgium

Jan. 2003 Rapporteur and Working Group Chairman, External Action, Trade and Development WG, Sciences-Po Paris, Paris, France

Oct. 2001–July 2002 Co-Founder and elected Chair of the London School of Economics Spanish Society, London, United Kingdom

Other Information

Languages Spanish (mother tongue), French, English and German (fluent), Italian (fair)

Research Interests

Public Policy, Implementation Studies, European Integration, Europeanisation


Working Title: When ‘Progressive’ Law Hits Home: The Race and Employment Equality Directives in Austria, Germany and Spain


Context:

Transposing European Union (EU) law is crucial for the effective functioning of the common market, the even application of the law in all member states, and the intensity of policy assimilation in Europe. The transposition process also determines the contents of European policies as they will be perceived by EU citizens (Dimitrova and Rhinard 2005: 1), and therefore the extent of “Europeanisation”. Unsurprisingly, non-transposition or untimely and/or incorrect transposition is a serious breach of European law, potentially leading to financial sanctions imposed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Despite the possibility of being penalised, the transposition performance of the member states is often riddled with delays and/or incorrectness. In the area of social policy, for instance, there is now evidence of various “worlds of compliance” (Falkner et al. 2005: 318). Similar “differential” transposition patterns are frequently observed in other EU policy fields (Héritier et al. 2001) across Europe.

Understanding and explaining these patterns belongs to the core research interests of scholars in the field of transposition studies. The area has analysed both cases of delayed and/or incorrect transposition, and situations of correct and timely transposition. It is as important to understand why, how and when transposition fails, as to understand the conditions rendering it successful. Specifically, scholars have repeatedly asked: What explains differential transposition patterns in the EU? Why is it so often a delayed and incorrect process? Which factors delay, block or accelerate transposition? What leads to transposition correctness, change and/or over-implementation? These are also the research questions I pose in my Dissertation project. Theoretical Framework and Case Selection:

A catalogue of variables potentially influencing transposition outcomes already exists (see Falkner et al. 2005: 11-40). Recent quantitative and qualitative studies, however, challenge the explanatory capacity of most of these variables (see again Falkner et al. 2005: 277-316 or Mastenbroek 2005: 1108-1114). Traditional approaches have neglected the level of “domestic politics” (Bulmer 1983, Mair 2004: 345, Falkner et al. 2005: 344-5). Moreover, these approaches seem inadequate to study the transposition processes of European Community (EC) directives with a prominent “normative dimension” (Dimitrova and Rhinard 2005: 3). Indeed, transposition studies have typically focused upon areas with a marked regulatory character, such as environment or transport, where material considerations prevailed over normative. The EU has even been characterised as a regulatory state (Majone 1996). Still, recent developments in EC legislation in the areas of social policy (anti-discrimination, maternity leave) or environmental and research policy (bio-technology legislation, food safety), require the use of a new set of tools better adapted to study the transposition of such instances of “progressive” law.


A better understanding of the transposition process of such directives, taking a “domestic politics” perspective, can contribute to recent theoretical debates encountered in the discipline of EU studies. These debates revolve around the explanatory powers of the different variants of new institutionalism. Transposition has usually been studied using a rational choice institutionalist toolkit, better adapted to the study of highly regulatory directives and the material preferences of domestic actors. However, a rational choice approach is inadequate to study the transposition of “progressive” law and norm-driven action. My Dissertation starts from the assumption that in such transposition cases, the “differential” patterns observed across the EU can be best explained using rational choice and sociological institutionalism. Both can explain more variance in transposition outcomes than when they are applied independently.

To illustrate these points, I study the transposition process of two EC Anti-Discrimination Directives in three EU member states. In December 2000, the EU took an important legal step in the fight against discrimination by passing two Anti-Discrimination Directives (ADDs), Directive 2000/43/EC1 also known as the Race Directive (RD)2, and Directive 2000/78/EC3 commonly referred to as the Employment Equality Directive (EED). While the RD prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin in employment and access to services; the EED bans any form of discrimination in employment based on age, disability, religion/belief and sexual orientation. I study the transposition of the ADDs in Austria, Germany and Spain.

Hypotheses and Methods:

1. Rational Choice Institutionalist Block

I derive my first block of hypotheses from rational choice institutionalism and the concepts of power and influence in the domestic political arena. My first hypothesis focuses upon the material preferences of veto players. I compare the fit between their material preferences and objective EC requirements to see how this affected the transposition process. A greater misfit between veto players’ material preferences and objective EU requirements increases the likelihood of transposition delay and/or change. When several veto players are present in a polity, bargaining strategies and the need to satisfy the preferences of all veto player partners affects transposition outcomes. Depending on the direction of the mismatch this may mean a watering down of the provisions of the directive or, on the contrary, over-implementation. The intensity of the mismatch also influences the timing of transposition. Hence, H1 is:

1OJ L 180, 19.07.2000, 22 2The term “Race Directive” is commonly used in the literature and by the European Commission, despite its various shortcomings (Chopin 2000, Bell 2002, Frey 2004 or Geddes and Guiraudon 2004). 3OJ L 303, 2.12.2000, 16.


H1: The higher the mismatch between the material preferences of veto players and objective EC requirements, the higher the probability of transposition delay and/or change.

To operationalise this hypothesis, I firstly look at the objective material requirements of a given directive, by analysing its contents and referring to expert documents and Commission notes. Secondly, I analyse the objective domestic level of total misfit. The most thorough operationalisation of the concept of misfit is provided by Gerda Falkner and her collaborators (2005). Thirdly, I map the number of actors involved in the process of transposition and proceed with the recognition of their material preferences. To reckon the number of veto players of a system, I resort to the operationalisation of George Tsebelis (1995, 2002). Fourthly, I look at the material preferences of veto players. To a large extent, this implies analysing their interpretation of both objective material requirements contained in the EC directive and the objective level of domestic misfit. These preferences can be identified through expert interviews and the analysis of newspaper articles, internal documents, expert documents, Commission monitoring reviews, public speeches and statements. Finally, I compare them with the objective material requirements contained in a directive to explain transposition outcomes.

The possibility of veto players being influenced by other domestic actors during transposition (“open veto players”) sheds light to the role of interest groups, supranational organisations and other domestic actors, such as parliaments or parties in opposition. The influence of these actors over domestic veto players can acquire important levels. Fabio Duina (1997) claims that transposition timing depends on the fit between the requirements of EC directives and the preferences of interest groups. Similarly, Tanja Börzel distinguishes between “push and pull” factors that can force a reluctant veto player to transpose a directive (2003). Among the factors “pulling from below” are inter alia interest groups (Börzel 2003: 36), but this analysis can be extended to other “influential” actors. Indeed, Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow (2001) refer to the possibility of having a “supportive actor coalition” during the implementation of a directive. Though strong domestic mobilisation in favour of correct transposition is important when veto players are reluctant; when they are willing, weak domestic mobilisation may also be an important condition for adaptation. This happens because not all “influential” actors facilitate transposition, some have informal blocking powers (Héritier 2001) and “opposing actor coalitions” (Falkner et al. 2005) also exist. Indeed, domestic “influential” actors may cooperate or compete for influence over veto players and to reflect their preferences in the transposed law.

When veto players are “open”, the preferences of these “influential” actors are of relevance too. Veto players may pick up elements from these actors to match EU requirements and at the same time satisfy them. The second hypothesis therefore tests whether transposition outcomes were influenced by these actors. Here I look at the match between the material preferences of “influential” actors and objective EC requirements:


H2: In the presence of “open” veto players, the lower the match between the material preferences of “influential” non-veto players and objective EU requirements, the higher the likelihood of transposition delay and/or change

The possibility of delays, when mismatches are high, is higher than before when veto players and “influential” actors do not share the same material preferences. Similarly, transposition change can also be expected when the mismatch is high and “influential” actors do not share the same material preferences as veto players. The nature and number of these “influential” actors can be found by applying the method of process tracing. Then, I refer to the previous analysis of objective EC requirements and total misfit levels and compare them to the material preferences of “influential” actors, elucidated through expert interviews and the study of related documents.

2. Sociological Institutionalist Block

Directives can also be regarded as sets of European norms. Norms are “single standards of appropriate behaviour for actors with a given identity” and with an element of shared moral assessment (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998: 891). EC directives are similar to norms embedded in international treaties and organisations (Dimitrova and Rhinard 2005: 2). EU law is “conceived not as a sui generis matter, the esoteric stuff of lawyers, but as one type of institution, or normative structure that interacts with other rule systems (e.g. culture, social norms) to shape outcomes” (Stone Sweet 2004: 5). In this case, the possibility of norm-driven action is neglected using rational choice institutionalism.

A norm-based approach contributes to explaining transposition delay and change because the domestic norm context can be disrupted by the arrival of new European norms in the form of a directive. When norms approach the domestic norm set, they have to fit into the “nested hierarchy” of norms already existing within a society (Johnson 1998: 399). In other words, what is at stake is the compatibility between norms enshrined in a directive and the domestic norm context, which embodies the preferences of domestic actors. In the study of norm compatibility, the focus lies on “how European norms relate and interact with different domestic norms” (Dimitrova and Rhinard 2005: 2). When a directive challenges the existing domestic policy approach and how programs ought to be administered and laws to be structured, the analysis is taken to the normative level:

H3: The higher the incompatibility between domestic normative contexts and the norms contained in EC directives, the more likely transposition delay and/or change

Here I look at the norms contained in a given EC directive, draw normative indicators and compare them to the domestic normative context. The operationalisation and identification of norms implies checking which norms are embedded in legal texts or frameworks such as


constitutions, legal frameworks and policy output, as well as public debates captured through public opinion polls and echoed by the press. Depending on the normative level, as explained by Peter Hall (1993) and Antoaneta Dimitrova and Mark Rhinard (2005), the analysis is taken to different arenas. When norms are incompatible domestic actors react to the process of norm transmission, where transposition delays and change can be expected, and which is followed by a process of norm change. Consequently, the organisational capacity slows down, and the member state is likely to miss the transposition deadline set by the directive.

The analysis starts with the study of the objective compatibility between domestic norms and incoming European norms. When a norm has been identified, I evaluate its “robustness” (Legro 1997) by looking at its specificity, durability and concordance. I focus on the relevant community or arena where the norm should play a role and study how the incoming norms are perceived by domestic actors. Of course, the main focus lies upon veto players but the presence of open veto players renders the analysis of the normative interpretations of “influential” actors important too. Data on normative preferences is gathered through expert interviews, the content analysis of relevant documents and the study of public discourses. The types of appropriateness arguments emerging from this analysis should be of the kind: “this is not the way we do things”, or “this is something completely new for us”.

Bibliography

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Chopin, Isabelle 2000. 'Possible Harmonisation of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the European Union: European and Non-Governmental Proposals', European Journal of Migration and Law 2: 413-30.

Dimitrova, Antoaneta, and Rhinard, Mark (2005). 'The Power of Norms in the Transposition of EU Directives', European Integration Online Papers (EioP)(16). Available Online at: http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2005-016a.htm

Hall, Peter A. 1993. ‘Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State’. Comparative Politics 25 (3):275-296.

Falkner, Gerda, Oliver Treib, Miriam Hartlapp and Simone Leiber 2005. Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member states. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. ‘International Norm Dynamics and Political Change’, International Organization 52, 4, 887-917.

Frey, Volker 2004. 'Antidiskriminierung: Arbeitsmarktpolitische Institutionen und Massnahmen auf dem Prüfstand', Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 30(4): 575-82.

Geddes, Andrew and Guiraudon, Virginie 2004. 'Britain, France, and EU Anti-Discrimination Policy: The Emergence of an EU Policy Paradigm', West European Politics 27(2): 335-53.

Héritier, Adrienne, Dieter Kerwer, Christoph Knill, Dirk Lehmkuhl, Michael Teutsch and Anne-Cécile Douillet 2001. Differential Europe: The European Union Impact on National Policymaking. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Knill, Christoph and Andrea Lenschow 1998. ‘Coping with Europe: the impact of British and German administrations on the implementation of EU environmental policy’, European Journal of Public Policy, pp. 595-614.

Legro, Jeffrey W. 1997. ‘Which norms matter? Revisiting the ‘failure’ of internationalism’. International Organization 51(1): 31-63.

Mair, Peter 2004. ‘The Europeanization Dimension’, Journal of European Public Policy 11(2): 337-48.

Majone, Giandomenico 1996. Regulating Europe. London: Routledge.

Mastenbroek, Ellen 2005. ‘EU Compliance: Still a ‘Black Hole’?’, Journal of European Public Policy 12(6): 1103-1120.

Stone Sweet, Alec 2004. The judicial construction of Europe. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Tsebelis, George 1995. 'Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism', British Journal of Political Science 25(289-325).

Tsebelis, George 2002. Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work. New York: Sage.

I H S — Florian Feldbauer / Scholar — 75

Florian Feldbauer E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-187 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Dec. 2004 Graduate, academic degree Mag.phil (Master of Philosophy)

Nov. 2002–Dec. 2004 Student of Political Science, Vienna University

March 2001–Nov. 2002 Student of Political Science and History, Vienna University

Oct. 2000–Feb. 2001 Student of Political Science and Communication Science, Vienna University


Oct. 2000–March 2004 Voluntary work for the Red Cross, Wels.

Dec. 2003 Awarded stipend for excellent grades by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Vienna University.

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic)

IT-Knowledge Microsoft/Open Office, Adobe Photoshop


Research Interests

Current Research Interests

Higher Education Policy, Institutional Development, Soft Law


Title: Soft coordination in European higher education policy (July 2006)

Research interest and puzzle Increasing interdependence and a continuing „shedding of limitations“, lead to the fundamental result that national politics alone are decreasingly able to produce the desired social outcomes. As a reaction nation states cooperate at the international level whereas the form and degree of formalization of these international cooperations varies widely. New forms of governance beyond the nation states emerge as a consequence of the increasing number of transnational social spaces. In many policy areas cooperation problems, that emerge due to transnational exchange and the increase of international interdependences are handled within the framework of the European Union. Nonetheless the EU arena is only one part of this policy making beyond the nation state and one should therefore not fall into the trap of regarding other European transnational policy regimes, as weaker forms of cooperation or second-best solutions, per se. In the absence of a central super authority several forms of governance take place in the international system. The scope thereby ranges from hierarchical forms with a central authority existing, to forms of self-organization without governmental involvement. The main form of governance beyond the nation state are international institutions. The focus in this research project lies only on formal institutions. Institutional form or design is one important factor, amongst others on which the success of governance beyond the nation state is based and it is legitimate to assume, that the form and type of a political institution influences the outcome, and that different institutions lead to different outcomes. In short, institutions and their concrete forms do matter. Hence the study of institutional design is one important array of research that should not be simply overlooked. This notion, and the fact that soft coordination has received a lot of attention in the scientific community recently, which is best visible in the pure amount of writings dealing with the Open Method of coordination, draws the attention towards in this direction. Nonetheless also other forms of soft coordination exist in the European context, a point that is highly visible in the context of European Higher Education, where very different institutional forms exist.


Main research question What explains the choice of soft coordination instruments? Theoretical framework Institutional development and especially the form institutions take are explained in the existing literature mainly with functionalist or power-distributionalist explanations. The functional explanations can be traced back to one general theme that soft law is just the institutional appropriate way to deal with a common coordination problem. This appropriateness surely constitutes an important background, but can hardly be formulated into tough hypotheses. Approaches based on power-distributional approaches stress the fact that political institutions are not just structures of cooperation but also structures of power. In this view especially the powerful founding members, the “enactors”, have a special interest and role in shaping the institutional form according to their preferences in this view. A recent attempt that tries to develop alternatives to this mainstream explanations stems from Armin Schäfer, who treats soft law as a means to overcome impossibilities of substantive agreements. Schäfer developed his hypothesis that content is substituted with procedure in the context of the EU’s economic policy and the Open Method of Coordination as a new policy instrument. Therefore it is highly interesting if this hypothesis is also applicable in other policy fields. My theoretical approach starts with Zürn’s situation-structural approach, that exactly addresses the question of institutional form. The form can vary along a continuum, regarding it’s grade of legal formalization. The question of degree of formalization of institutions is traced back in the situation-structural approach to the structure of the situation in which they were created. Nonetheless bringing time back in therefore allows us to overcome this static snapshot view as criticized by Pierson. Whereas move from the left to the right on this continuum over time is likely to occur, a move from the right to the left is not likely to occur due to path dependences and stickiness of institutions. The actors when taking the decision about which institution to choose in international cooperation processes, know about these long-term effects and about possible unintended consequences they are able to learn, and to recall past experiences. Regarding the continuum picture, actors when deciding upon the form an institutions know that move from the right to the left is more difficult to achieve than move from the left to the right. So, this means that once institutions are installed in a more binding form, a switch-back to softer, less binding forms are difficult to reach. o Soft-coordination instruments, developed at the international level reflect the institutional

preferences of powerful “enactors”. o Governments choose soft coordination when no compromise about the concrete goals

exist. o Governments, knowing about long-term effects, unintended consequences and path-

dependences, chose soft coordination instruments to keep in control of this process as far as possible.


Case selection and Methods To answer the research question and test the hypotheses stated above a single case study will be conducted. The Bologna process is the most interesting case in the field of higher education due to the fact that it does not take place in the framework of the EU, constitutes a distinct form of soft coordination and has not been analyzed till now, regarding the aspects covered by this PhD project. To answer the research questions a multi-method strategy, a so called method-mix will be employed. A process tracing approach combining the analysis of relevant official documents and statements, with data gained from qualitative expert interviews is thereby applied. In this case process tracing is the best research method to overcome, or at least handle the limitations of a single case study that deals with a process that enfolds over time, even when the methods’ limitations are taken into account. Starting with an analysis of relevant official documents and statements of participants that are available, especially expert interviews based on an open questionnaire will be conducted. Being the only actors that were constantly involved, members of the European Commission, besides other experts involved in this process are assumed to be the best candidates for these interviews. The qualitative analysis of the data gained in the interviews will be based on the concept of qualitative content analysis which represents a structured and systematic way of analyzing interview data. Selected References Schäfer, Armin, 2005: Die neue Unverbindlichkeit. Wirtschaftspolitische Koordinierung in Europa. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.

Thelen, Kathleen, 2003: How institutions evolve. Insights from comparative historical analysis. In: James Mahoney/Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.), Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 208-240.

Zürn, Michael, 1992: Interessen und Institutionen in der internationalen Politik. Grundlegung und Anwendung des situationsstrukturellen Ansatzes. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.

Previous Research Interests

‘Europe in Austria’s civic education at high-school level.’

Abstract

Basic social and political changes both at the European level and also within Austria, have altered the situation for civic education. The embedding of Austria within the European system of multi-level governance, and the fact that European decisions more and more influence its citizens’ everyday lives, require a reorientation concerning the goals, contents


and methods of modern civic education. In addition, the institutional integration of civic education in Austria’s high schools has changed since the creation of the ‘history and civic education’ subject in 2001. The aims of this thesis are to analyse the situation at high-school level, to uncover the political motives which lay behind the invention of the new subject and to identify its possible effects. The integration of the subject area of ‘Europe’ in the framework of civic education is examined, both the concepts and the practice. Qualitative interviews were used to examine the practical dimension. It is shown that ‘Europe’ in civic education can not be reduced to solely examining the European union and that concepts which seek to (mis)use civic education for the building up of a so-called European identity are incompatible with its aims. It appears problematic that this field is strongly lacking in conceptual definition. In conclusion it is argued that civic education in Austria still only exists in terms of fragmented compromises and that the national perspective is still all-dominant. Concerning ‘Europe’, it is necessary to point out that this subject which greatly lacks consistent scientific research, is poorly integrated into Austria’s concept of civic education at high-school level, and therefore rarely discussed in class, also due to insufficient teacher-training and the complexity of this subject.


I H S — Zoe Lefkofridi / Scholar — 81

Zoe Lefkofridi E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-174 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2005 Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2003–July 2004 Master of Advanced International Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna & University of Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2002–Oct. 2004 Master of Arts in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

Oct. 1995–Feb. 2002 Ptychion in Theatre Studies, University of Athens, Greece

Feb. 2002–June 2002 Non-degree student in International Relations, Deree College – American College of Greece


Sept. 2006 15th Summer School on Parties and Party Systems “Democracy in Europe: European Politics and Multi-Level Governance”, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

July 2003 12th International Summer Seminar: “The Greek Presidency and the external relations of an enlarged EU”, Institute of International Relations, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.

Feb. 2003–March 2003 Workshop & Simulation Exercise (Prof. Nutall): “Foreign Policy Mechanisms in the EU: the Policy-making process”, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Sept. 2000 Part-time employee for the organisation of “International Conference of Ministers of Culture: Globalization and Preservation of National Heritage”, Santorini, Greece.


Aug. 2000 Volunteer Work for the Environment and Culture, Festival Rei en Jaume, Municipality of Calvia, Mallorca, Spain.

July 2000 Monthly Seminar in Germanistik, Humbolt Universität, Berlin

Other Information

Languages Greek (mother tongue), English, German (fluent); French, Spanish (very good); Italian (basic)

Research interests Current research

Comparative politics; European Union; Interaction between EU and national level, Political Parties, Europeanization


Context

The normative motor of this PhD project is an interest in the potential and real impact of European integration on the development of institutions of democratic governance. Elections and political parties constitute fundamental institutions of contemporary large-scale democracy, not least because they legitimize the system. However, while national political parties emerged and developed in their respective national political systems, these systems make now part of a broader, supra-system of governance: the European Union. An underlying concern about the role parties (should) play in the democratic polities of the EU suggests that the phenomenon of European integration may impact on national political parties both as actors in this process (agency) but also as political organizations functioning according to specific rules, operating procedures, etc (structure). Hix and Goetz (2000: 3) defined1 European integration as: “the delegation of policy competences to the supranational level to achieve particular policy outcomes; and the establishment of a new set of political institutions with executive, legislative and judicial powers”.

1 This definition was chosen because it provides for a neat analytical separation of the policy and polity dimensions of European integration.


Research Questions and Theoretical Framework

The research questions of this PhD project ask Why, How, When and to what extent European integration impacts national political parties? These questions form the backbone of a research design inquiring the impact of European integration in both empirical and theoretical grounds. First, I place my research into the broader theoretical puzzle exploring the impact of European integration on national political systems. Why would European integration impact on political parties? In a relevant discussion, Hix and Goetz (2000: 10) summarize that they expect two types of impact on domestic actors and institutions:

“(1) the delegation of policy competences to the European level and the resulting political outcomes constrain domestic choices, reinforce certain policy and institutional developments and provide a catalyst for change in others; and

(2) the establishment of a higher level of governance institutions provides new opportunities to exit from domestic constraints, either to promote certain policies, or to veto others, or to secure informational advantages”.

Second, I review some propositions from micro- and macro- institutionalist and organizational approaches in search of the potential causality in the relationship between party change and European integration. The most fundamental assumption of public choice literature is that parties are rational actors actively seeking to maximize utility2. At the micro level, I assume that parties will use ‘Europe’ (policy and polity) to maximize utility (votes +/office +/policy). The study of changes in party behavior and structure over time seeks to answer the second research question: When does European integration impact on political parties? Hence, I combine micro- and macro- analysis of political party change. At the macro level, I assume that parties will respond to environmental changes (in the policy and polity dimensions of European integration) by changing behavior and/or structure over time.

Furthermore, scholars increasingly employ the concept of Europeanization to assess the European sources of national politics in the member states, in candidate states or even in states outside the EU (e.g. Norway) (Vink 2003: 1). Broadly speaking, Europeanization refers to domestic change triggered by European integration. There is no academic consensus, however, as to the exact ontology of Europeanization, i.e. what kind of change it is. Different research questions focus on different aspects of domestic change caused by European integration. Hence, the way Europeanization is conceived in the literature largely depends

2 “Utility” can be translated into: votes and/or office and/or policy. Vote maximization is an instrinsic goal because it is the means to gain office and this in turn is the means to influence policy. I do not perceive these goals as mutually exclusive, but as complementary. I believe that in reality parties pursue all three goals simultaneously, under the general label “utility”.


upon the object of research. It should be underlined that the “polity” (e.g. administrative-governmental aspects) and “policy” (e.g. substance and processes of public policy making) dimensions of the problem have received more attention than “politics” (e.g. political cleavages, elections, voters, political parties, party competition, party systems and patterns of democratic legitimation) (Hix and Goetz 2000: 15).

I review the existing definitions in the Europeanization literature (e.g. Ladrech 1994; Radaelli 2000; Ladrech 2002) in search of a working definition which would enable the operationalization of the concept in the field of party research. Europeanization is defined here as a process whereby national political parties increasingly define their interests and goals in a European context. By “European context” I understand both the polity and the policy dimensions of European integration. Parties are actors who are, in principle, related to all three dimensions (polity3, policy4, and politics) of political analysis5. European integration as understood here does not only provide parties with a new policy arena, but also with a new institutional environment. There is a difference between a) Europe becoming a new issue in domestic politics and b) Europe being used as a ‘tool’ for the pursuit of party goals. In the former case parties respond to the policy dimension of European integration whereas in the latter case they respond to its polity dimension and ‘exploit’ the new structures to bring about their desired outcomes.

Note that parties can be conceptualized both in terms of ‘agency’ and of ‘structure’ because parties as actors in democratic polities are groups of individuals behaving in a certain way and internally organized according to a specific structure. A constantly changing reality (increasing policy transfers to the EU level and supranational institutional building) calls for parties, as actors in the process of European integration, to define their interests vis-à-vis their changing policy- and institutional environment (and its further evolution). A process whereby parties respond to both policy and polity dimensions of European integration is more likely to result in Europeanized politics. It should be made clear that Europeanization as defined here does not imply that parties adopt a positive stance towards Europe. Parties may connect more and more to the process of European integration, by adopting positions in favor or against it. For instance, it may be that a party is against European integration, in which case: it will feel the need to educate its

3 Political parties are actors who establish themselves and function within a specific institutional structure of a democratic polity. 4 Political parties are elected on specific sets of policy proposals regarding the government of the community. 5 According to Mair (1997: viii), parties and party systems is a field of study: “which affords access to, and is touched by, an extraordinarily wide range of concerns running from political culture to voting behavior, from theories of competition to the study of coalition formation, from policy analysis to political performance [..] with little in the way of insight being achieved without at least some reasonable grasp of how institutions work, how values develop, and how ideologies are constructed”.


voters why Europe is a bad thing. By engaging in an anti-Europe campaign, the party consciously integrates Europe in its political discourse (albeit to oppose it) and defines its interests in opposition to policies. In normative terms, a marginal degree of Europeanization (that Europe enters the discourse) is inevitable for any party, that respects the citizens who vote for it and thus makes an effort of informing them regarding the major issues at stake. However, a party may well chose to completely ignore the issue of European integration and continue competing only on national issues. This would, of course, provide evidence of non-Europeanization.

According to my refined definition of Europeanization, if European integration has any impact on political parties this could change their beliefs with regards to the best arena in which to act so that they can achieve their unchanged preferences. Or, at a different level of Europeanization, it could be that it changes their preferences. How does European integration impact on party change? The combination of macro- and micro- levels suggests that the deeper the integration, the more probabilities there are that parties perceive Europe as a ‘tool’ for utility maximization, and the more parties will use Europe strategically; but the more parties engage in using Europe ‘strategically’ for the pursuit of their goals, the deeper they are pooled into the Europeanization process (from low to higher degrees of Europeanization). Thus, Europeanization is assumed here to represent a mechanism of party change caused by European integration.

General and Specific Hypotheses

General Hypothesis (H): The deeper and wider European integration, the more probable that parties will ‘become Europeanized’.

Alternative General Hypothesis (0): The depth and breadth of European integration will have no impact on the degree of party Europeanization.

In addition, I formulate specific hypotheses that correspond to different (hypothetical) levels of Europeanization.

Hypothesis 1: If parties go through a process of Europeanization, the salience of Europe will increase over time.

Hypothesis 2: If parties go through a process of Europeanization, their positions on Europe (polity and policy dimension) will change over time.

Hypothesis 3: If parties go through a process of Europeanization, their delegation in the EP as well as close coordination between MEPs and MPs becomes increasingly important.


Hypothesis 4: If parties go through a process of Europeanization, they develop more ties to transnational party federations over time and increasingly engage in a dialogue with their fellow parties in other countries (who belong to the same party family).

Further, to answer my last research question “To what extent does European integration impact national political parties?” I assume that different parties in the same system (and similar parties in different systems) may be affected by European integration to a different extent. Therefore, I construct a typology of different levels of Europeanization. The two --interconnected but distinct-- dimensions of European integration (policy and polity) can help us differentiate between different levels of Europeanization. I perceive national political parties as actors moving from a lower to a higher level of Europeanization over time. At the lowest level, national parties would make vague references to Europe and the European Union as “another issue” in domestic politics. Intermediate levels could involve more informed, sophisticated and concrete (re)positioning on Europe and European policies or even modifications in the party structure. As actors move through the levels of Europeanization, they may need to adapt their structure. At the highest level the party as a political organization would define its interests and goals beyond the national sphere. The course of political parties towards higher levels of Europeanization may even change party identity. An extreme manifestation of such impact would be the self-identification of the party as “European” in the context of elections at the national level. This is important, because it implies the shift of the political organization’s loyalty from the national polity (i.e. the institutional structure in which it was born and within which it has been functioning ever since) towards the --under construction-- EU polity. Hence, a secondary set of hypotheses is added regarding the factors that would enhance Europeanization and would help predict which parties would be more Europeanized than others.

Methods of inquiry and Case Selection

Greece is chosen as one of the least researched member states of the Union in the realm of EU studies. Academic work on Greece has focused on aspects of domestic change/Europeanization other than political parties (e.g. Economides 2005; Sotiropoulos 2004; Kazakos 2004). Lyrintzis (2005) studies the Europeanization of the party system but not of individual political parties. The present project aspires to fill this gap in the literature, by studying the four main parties of the 3rd Hellenic Republic6. Apart from the fact that Greece has been largely under-researched, it also appears to be an attractive case as it is now among the ‘older’ members of the European Union, as it joined already in 1981. There

6 Although the comparison in this work is among different parties in the same system, references will be made (where possible) to the Spanish and Portuguese cases, in order to place the analysis of the Greek case in a comparative perspective.


are 25 years of membership at our disposal in order to observe whether there is evidence of change caused by European integration. For instance, within a period of such length (1981-2006) it is possible to examine if the salience of Europe increased over time and if parties repositioned themselves in their attitudes towards specific European issues. The project relies mainly on qualitative research methods, namely semi-structured interviews with party members as well as on document analysis.The documents include party manifestos and programs, “programmatic statements of prime ministers”, the minutes of the national parliament’s debates for the ratification of EC/EU Treaties as well as selected speeches of party leaders on EU issues. For the present project, the manifestos will be studied both quantitatively and qualitatively.

References

Economides, S., 2005: The Europeanization of Greek Foreign Policy. In: West European Politics 28:2, 471-491.

Hix, S. and Goetz, K., 2000: Introduction: European Integration and National Political Systems. In: West European Politics 23: 4: Special Issue on Europeanized Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems), 1-26.

Kazakos, P., 2004: Europeanisation, Public Goals and Groups Interests: Convergence Policy in Greece 1990-2003. In: West European Politics 27: 5: 901-918.

Ladrech, R. 1994: Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France. In: Journal of Common Market Studies 32:1: 69-88.

Ladrech, R. 2002: Europeanization and Political Parties: Towards a Framework for Analysis. In: Party Politics 8:4: 389-403.

Lyrintzis, Ch. 2005: The Changing Party System: Changing Democracy, Contested 'Modernisation'. In: West European Politics 28:2: 242-259.

Mair, P. 1997: Party System Change, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Radaelli, C. 2000: Whither Europeanization? Concept stretching and substantive change. In: European integration online Papers (EioP), 4:8 [Accessed on: 02.11.2005 2005] <http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2000-008a.htm>.

Sotiropoulos, D. A., 2004: The EU's impact on the Greek welfare state: Europeanization on paper? In: Journal of European Social Policy 14: 3: 267-284.

Vink, M. 2003: What is Europeanization? and Other Questions on a New Research Agenda. European Political Science (EPS). [Accessed on 08.08.2006] http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/yen/paper_archive/2nd_yen_rm_papers/vink2002.pdf


Previous research

2002/3: The free movement of people in the enlargement debate: the restriction of the free movement of labor between Germany and Poland.

2003/4: Democracy in the 3rd Hellenic Republic: Parties, Elections and Europeanization.

Abstract

No political institution can exert more influence on the formation of the political system than its electoral system and its political parties. The present paper investigates the case of the 3rd Hellenic Republic. The basic assumption of this thesis is that parties and voters are rational actors, maximizing utility. As institutions constrain the political actors’ choices in two-level games, the levels of analysis are both national (domestic) and European. The assumption to be tested is that parties in two party-competition advocate centrist policies. The paper argues that rational choice of reinforced PR led to easy formation of single party governments. It analyzes all attributes of the unique Greek electoral engineering, and observes the changes in the so-called ‘effective’ number of parties in the assembly. Results of reinforced PR at the national level are contrasted to results of pure PR at the European level in order to show how differently the party system performs across levels. The paper argues that the disproportionality between seats and votes discouraged voters from voting for smaller parties, which led to the function of the party system as two-party competition with centrifugal tendencies. Furthermore, the study investigates the two main parties’ identity and behavior in regard to their past as well as their strategies in order to win elections. It demonstrates the two office-seeking parties’ move towards the center from their initial positions at the genesis of the system. Moreover, it narrates their stance vis-à-vis the European Union and underlines that the move towards moderate policies was fostered by the conditional variable of the EU. The paper concludes that only after almost two decades of EU membership, the two office-seeking parties resulted in advocating similar policies to win the swing voters in the center.

I H S — Heidrun Maurer / Scholar — 89

Heidrun Maurer E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-188 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Doctoral scholarship at the department of political science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Oct. 1999–Oct. 2004 Student of Political Science at Vienna University (with minor in communication science), focused on International Politics, conflict management and international law;

Sept. 1991–June 1999 Grammar school stressing modern languages in Horn, Austria

Career

July/Aug. 1997 and 1998 Holiday replacement in travel agency in Eggenburg, Austria

Aug. 1999–Sept. 2004 Part-time job in a printing-house in Vienna, Austria

Other Achievements / Activities

April 2003 Study trip to New York / United Nations Headquarters and to Washington D.C. (World Bank and IMF) with special briefings

Nov. 2001 Study trip to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris to institutions of the EU and the United Nations (UNESCO, ICJ)

1997–1999 Visits abroad to Great Britain, France and Zimbabwe; Participation in several workshops in Hungary for students learning Russian

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue) English (fluent); French, Russian and Spanish (basic);

Professional vision Researcher or post in an international organisation or at European level


Research Interests


Foreign Policy of the EU and its member states; Security Policy; Environmental Policy; The European Union’s role in International Politics


Title: Institutional Coherence in Foreign Policy Making of the European Union (August 2006)

Research Interest and Puzzle

With the Treaty of Maastricht (TEU), the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) was incorporated into the institutional framework of the European Union (EU). But as many member states did not want to integrate the field of external relations fully into Community competence, three pillars with different degrees of integration were created. The CFSP made up the second pillar, where decisions still remained intergovernmental.

Nevertheless, not all external actions towards third states emerge from this second CFSP pillar. Actions primarily related to trade and development are realized in the first pillar, the European Community. To accomplish good cooperation between these two pillars and their actors and to ensure an effective appearance of the Union in international affairs, Art. 3 of the TEU asks for coherence in the external actions of the European Union. (Gauttier 2004; Nuttall 2001). Incoherence in external relations is not a new issue. Within national foreign policies incoherence is accepted and mostly not even perceived as a problem. Nevertheless, on European level more coherent action in external relations is already desired since 40 years, and there have been several attempts to improve the cooperation of the various actors. But despite of these already taken adaptations, the international performance of the EU is still criticised for its insufficiency and incoherence. In the literature there are two different lines of arguments why incoherence still occurs. On the one hand, it is argued that the EU, i.e. its member states as well as its supranational organisations are not willing to act in a coherent way, as this process of coordinating would reduce their own room for strategic action. On the other hand, the complex institutional structure is perceived as the main obstacle for coherence in European Foreign Policy (EFP), as decision-making procedures, actors and their competences, means and instruments are different in EC and CFSP.

My research interest directly refers to this discussion, and the key research question is:


How has the cooperation of first (EC) and second pillar (CFSP) in European Foreign Policy changed from 1995 to 2005, and what factors supported or hindered the process of cooperation? First, I look at the process of how the interplay of the different actors has changed over time, and secondly and more importantly, I focus on the causal influence of different factors. Further, I want to analyse which formal and informal procedures were designed to foster coherence, how important better cooperation is for the involved actors and how much of a problem uncoordinated action is for them. The focus of my research is on institutional coherence, i.e. the cooperation between the pillars and within the pillars, and how this cooperation has changed over time. I analyse how the process of improving cooperation has developed the last ten years, and what factors have supported or hindered improvement on this level. Theoretical Framework

My theoretical framework is based on Carlsnaes’ tripartial model of explaining a foreign policy action (Carlsnaes 1992: 254-254; 1994: 282-283) where he differentiates between the intentional, the dispositional and the structural dimension.

On the intentional level the different choices and preferences (rational perspective) of the actors are analysed and I will use the bureaucratic politics approach to explain why different actors or bureaucracies choose rationally the specific course of action among others. By applying the constructivist concept of social learning I will switch to the “dispositional dimension” of Carlsnaes´ model where the intentions of the actors are linked with the respective output. At this dimension rational assumptions about used bargaining advantages will also be added. Finally, the structural dimension will be incorporated in the theoretical framework by perceiving the institutional set-up as a constraining factor on the first two dimensions. Based on these theoretical approaches I have identified six factors that influence the degree of coherence and cooperation of European foreign policy making: the power-factor, the policy interest-factor, the competence-factor, the time-factor, the bargaining advantage and the communication-factor.

Case Selection and Method

My case selection is motivated by the consideration that I want to look at a most-likely case, i.e. that I select a region or a country where good coordination of EFP is most probable. Since the end of the Cold War the EU has emphasised two priorities in its external relations: the Central and East European Countries and the Mediterranean Region. In 2003 the creation of the “European Neighbourhood Policy” (ENP) further emphasised the importance of these countries to create a secure and stable environment. The Mediterranean countries seem a good choice to analyse a most likely case, as I assume that especially towards


priority countries the probability of coherence should be given. In concrete terms I decided to focus on Algeria and Morocco, and it will be interesting to examine if the degree of coherence differs in relation to these two countries. To get detailed information about the interactions, I analyse the relevant documents and in a second step look at recent attempts of EU-actors (primarily Commission and Secretariat of the Council) to improve cooperation and coordination among them. An analysis of secondary literature as well as of media reports will support the empirical work. Nevertheless, as my analysis focus on the interaction of different European actors and their view on coherent foreign policy making, it is indispensable for my research to conduct expert-interviews with the relevant actors themselves in Brussels, but also with “experts” on the selected regions. Based on my theoretical framework and the collected empirical material I will apply process tracing to highlight how the process of coordination between the different actors has changed over time and what factors have influenced these changes.

Selected References

Carlsnaes, Walter (1992): The Agency-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy Analysis. In: International Studies Quarterly 36, 245-270.

Carlsnaes, Walter (1994): In Lieu of a Conclusion: Compatibility and the Agency-Structure Issue in Foreign Policy Analysis. In: Carlsnaes, Walter / Smith, Steve (eds.): European Foreign Policy. The EC and Changing Perspectives in Europe. London: Sage, 274-287.

Gauttier, Pascal (2004): Horizontal Coherence and the External Competences of the European Union. In: European Law Journal 10(1), 23-41.

Nuttall, Simon (2001): "Consistency" and the CFSP: A Categorization and Its Consequences. EFPU Working Paper 2001/3. In: <http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/intrel/pdfs/EFPU%20Working%20Paper%203.pdf>.

Smith, Michael E., 2001: The Quest for Coherence: Institutional Dillemmas of External Action from Maastricht to Amsterdam. In: Alec; Fligstein Stone Sweet, Neil; Sandholtz, Wayne; (ed.) The Institutionalization of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171-193.

Szymanski, Marcela / Smith, Michael E., 2005: Coherence and Conditionality in European Foreign Policy: Negotiating the EU-Mexico Global Agreement. In: Journal of Common Market Studies 43(1), 171-192.

Previous Research

The EU on its way to a “Common Security and Defence Policy”? (Diplomarbeit)


Abstract

In 2003, the European Union carried out its first military and civil missions. Considering the fact that the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) only began in 1999, this was quite an achievement. Compared to other (especially economic) policy areas and to the ongoing process of European integration, the current status quo of ESDP is the subject of much discussion and debate. This thesis offers an overview and critique of the relevant debates.

The aims of this thesis are to clarify how security and defence policy are positioned within the framework of the European Union, what progress has been made over the last five years and what goals are being pursued through these activities. In order to discuss the need for this policy area on not just an intergovernmental but also supranational level, and also to question the need for military power in international relations nowadays. Another aim is to bring together the findings offered by the current literature on the status quo, and to organize, compare and analyse them. With this background and the focus on newly developments and ideas within ESDP, possible future developments are presented. The final aim of this thesis centres on the analysis of effects of ESDP on international politics, especially on international security institutions (NATO, UN) as well as on the reactions of two other “big players” Russia and the USA.

In conclusion, at the moment the European Security and Defence Policy is an intense coordination of the single security policies of its member states, which is organised intergovernmentally within the framework of the EU. This is also confirmed by the structure of the recently created “Rapid Reaction Force”, which is not at all a “European army”, as critics have often argued, but a conglomeration of national troops with national or European leadership. Complicated financial structures for conflict management, unsuitably trained and equipped national troops etc. constitute different problem fields that are to be solved in future, but one should always bear in mind that at present ESDP is in the process of development and further practical realisation will follow.


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Eric Miklin E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-187 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar, Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2004 Graduate, academic degree Mag. phil (Master of Philosophy)

Oct. 1999–Oct. 2004 Student of Political Science and Communication Science, Vienna University, Austria

Feb. 1998–Sept. 1999 Student of Violoncello, University of Music and Dramatic Art Vienna, Austria

March 1992–January 1998 Student of Violoncello, University of Music and Dramatic Art Graz, Austria

Career

July 2002–Sept. 2004 Assistant and technical support for Hierhold Presentation Services (H.P.S), Vienna, Austria

March 2002–June 2003 Lecturing Assistant (Tutor), Department of Communication Science at the University of Vienna, Austria

Oct. 2001–June 2002 Editorial freelance work for the Austrian Energy Agency (E.V.A.), Vienna, Austria

July 1996–Sept. 2001 Free lance musician in Austria and abroad

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Italian (basic)


Research Interests

Current Research

EU-Democracy and Legitimacy, European Public Sphere and Decision Making Processes, EU developmental policy


Title: The role of the Left-Right schema in the decision-making processes of the Council of Ministers. Studies on the European political space. The case of the EU Services Directive. (September 2006)

Research-Puzzle

The European political space and the question, along which dimensions European issues are being discussed, recently moved into the focus of the scientific discussion. Since the late 1990s a number of studies dealing with these questions have been carried out. However, at least until last year, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the empirical analysis of the political space in which the Council of Ministers (CoM) is taking its decisions (but see Mattila 2004; Zimmer et al. forthcoming)

Spatial theory has shown for the national level, that structuring political spaces along only one or two ideological dimensions decreases problems of limited information in the context of voting (e.g. Downs 1957; Budge 1994; Hinich/Munger 1993). It has also shown, that stable equilibria are likely to occur only in one- or (at most) two-dimensional spaces, because in spaces of higher dimensionality any potential outcome is prone to be overruled by a majority of actors that prefer an alternative outcome (e.g. McKelvey/Schofield 1986). For the national level, there is a broad consensus about the fact, that political contestation is structured mainly along a Left-Right dimension (e.g. Barnes/Kaase 1979; Downs 1957; Fuchs/Klingemann 1990). Some scholars argue that this schema has to be divided into an economic and a social left-right dimension (e.g. Kitschelt 1994; Franklin 1992). “But no one really doubts the critical importance of the categories Left and Right in Europe” (Marks/Steenbergen 2002: 880). Hence, concerning the European political space the consequential questions are: Are European issues related to the dominant dimension(s) of national contestation? Or are they building up one or even more new dimensions of contestation?


Theory

For a long time, the European political space has been seen as dominated just by one dimension: the Integration-vs.-Independence dimension. More current approaches like the Hix-Lord model and the Hooghe-Marks model have argued that, as the integration process has increasingly mixed up national and EU-level politics, contestation in Europe is structured along two dimensions: The Left-Right dimension and the Integration-vs.-Independence dimension (Hix/Lord 1997; Hooghe/Marks 1999). Recent studies have shown clearly, that the Left-Right schema indeed plays a decisive role in contestation about Europe (Marks/Steenbergen 2004). However, they have also shown, that neither the Hix-Lord model nor the Hooghe-Marks model are able to describe the European political space accurately – especially, as they say nothing about national contextual factors, that may lead to a break-up of the Left-Right dimension at the European level. Therefore, the questions this study is dealing with are to which extent the Left-Right schema constrains (1) the actors positions during and (2) the outcome of the decision-making processes within the CoM and (3) especially to which extent national contextual factors are leading to a break-up of the ideological Left-Right dimension and?

Methods

Former studies on how decisions are taken within the CoM exclusively have focused on quantitative approaches (e.g. Mattila 2004; Zimmer et al. forthcoming). However, the methods used in these studies cannot really answer the question which role the Left-Right scheme effectively played during the negotiation- and the decision-making processes and which factors lead to a break up of the left-right dimension. To answer this question a qualitative approach – based particularly on expert-interviews – seems to be more appropriate. However, this of course means that only a few cases can be analyzed this way. Therefore the study will focus on three EU member states (Austria, Germany and Sweden) and their position with regard to the EU Directive on Services.

Literature

Barnes, Samuel/Max Kaase, 1979: Political actions: Mass participation in five western democracies. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Budge, Ian, 1994: A new spatial theory of pary competition: Uncertainty, ideology and policy equilibria viewed comparatively and temporally. In: British Journal of Political Science 24, 443-476.

Downs, Anthony, 1957: An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper & Row.


Franklin, Mark, 1992: The decline of cleavage politics. In: Mark N. Franklin/Thomas T Mackie/Henry Valen/et al (eds.), Electoral change. Responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 383-405.

Fuchs, Dieter/Hans-Dieter Klingemann, 1990: The Left-Right schema. In: M. Kent Jennings/Jan W. van Deth/et al (eds.), Continuities in political action. A longitudinal study of political orientations in three western democracies. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 203-234.

Hinich, Melvin J./Michael C. Munger, 1993: Political ideology, communication, and community. In: William A. Barnett/Melvin J. Hinich/Norman J. Schofield (eds.), Political economy: Institutions, competition, and representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 25-50.

Hix, Simon/Christopher Lord, 1997: Political parties in the European Union. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Hooghe, Lisbet/Gary Marks, 1999: The making of a polity: the struggle over European integration. In: Herbert Kitschelt/Peter Lange/Gary Marks/John D. Stephens (eds.), Continuity and change in contemporary capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 70-97.

Kitschelt, Herbert, 1994: The transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Marks, Gary/Marco Steenbergen, 2002: Understanding political contestation in Europe. In: Comparative Political Studies 35/8, 879-892.

Marks, Gary/Marco Steenbergen (eds.), 2004: European integration and political conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mattila, Mikko, 2004: Contested decisions: Empirical analysis of voting in the European Union Council of Ministers. In: European Journal of Political Research 43, 29-50.

McKelvey, R/Norman J. Schofield, 1986: Structural instability of the core. In: Journal of Economic Theory 12, 472-482.

Zimmer, Christina/Gerald Schneider/Michael Dobbins, forthcoming: The contested Council: The conflict dimensions of an intergovernmental institution. In: Political Studies.

Previous Research

‘Emergence of a European Public Sphere? Studies on the Democratic Ability of the European Union.’ Master Thesis. Vienna University, Austria


Abstract

During the last few years the discussion on the democratic deficit of the European Union may has lost lot of its news value but surely none of its relevance. Searching for ways to reduce this deficit, the emergence of a European public sphere as one of the basic prerequisites for a European democracy moved into the focus of the scientific discussion. The possibility of such a public sphere has been often denied. Following this assumption any institutional democratization of the EU would not only not reduce the democratic deficit but even enlarge it. Hence the aims of the thesis are to discuss the theoretical possibility of a European public sphere – and consequently European democracy – and to isolate the factors that have until now inhibited its development and also those which could accelerate its emergence in the future. Therefore two possibilities of realization are discussed: The development of a network of transeuropean media and the Europeanization of national media. In the thesis the Europeanization of national media is described as the more realistic variation because it makes it easier to overcome the linguistic borders within the European Union. The conclusion of the analysis is that there is no well-founded argument that corroborates the impossibility of the emergence of a European public sphere by the Europeanization of the national media. However, it is mainly the institutional structure of the EU that inhibits its development. Therefore only comprehensive institutional reforms could accelerate this process.


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Patrick Müller E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-174 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.

1996–2002 M.A. in Political Science from Ludwing-Maximilians University in Munich, Minor subjects Economics and European Law

Jan. 2002–June 2002 Semester at Malta international University

Career

Dec. 2003–June 2004 Research Assistant at the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ)

Jan. 2003–Dec. 2003 Research Assistant at LAW-The Palestinian Society for Human Rights, and Project Assistant at AIC-The Alternative Information Center

April 2002–June 2002 Internship at the European Parliament

Sept. 2000–Oct. 2000 Internship at ILOI-Consulting Firm Munich

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (good), Hebrew (basic)


Research Interests

Current Research

EU foreign policy, Role of the European Union in the Middle East, Barcelona process


Title: The role of the European Union in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – Comparing the CFSP-policies of Europe’s “big-three” member states. (September 2006)

Puzzle:

The Israeli-Palestinian peace process represents a core area of European foreign policy-

making. The EU has made use of important foreign policy instruments in the Israeli-

Palestinian context – including several joint actions and a common strategy on the Middle

East. Concerning the economic dimension, more than 50 percent of all financial support

(non-military aid) for the peace process comes from the EU which makes Europe the largest

financial supporter of the peace process. This PhD-project focuses on one very important

aspect of European foreign policy-making in the Israeli-Palestinian context. It analyses the

contributions of France, the UK and Germany to the development of a common European

foreign policy vis-à-vis the peace process. By means of a structured comparison, it will be

shown that the CFSP-policies of Europe’s so-called “big-three” member states differ in

important respects. This raises the question how the cross national variance in the way and

degree of support for a common European policy towards the peace process can be best

explained (overarching research question).

Theoretical approach:

For possible explanations of the cross national variance in the member states’ foreign policy

behaviour this research project will consult realism, utilitarian liberalism and social

constructivism. These “research schools” of the International Relations (IR) discipline give

different answers to the question of what drives state behaviour. The central argument put

forward by realism and utilitarian liberalism – the leading rational choice based IR-theories –

is that foreign policy is primarily guided by material considerations of states (power and

plenty). Related to the EU’s engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian context, the central

“rational choice” based argument is that the EU member states care above all about their

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security and economic interests.1 In this view, the EU member states understand the

management and resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as central for the stability of the

Middle East and North African region (MENA-region), for the containment of Arab

fundamentalism and terrorism, for their energy security as well as for their commercial

interests in the region.2 Constructivist scholars of European foreign policy, on the other hand,

contest the view that foreign policy-making is primarily driven by security considerations and

economic self-interest. Instead, constructivists believe that norms and ideas (also) play a

very important role in foreign policy-making. Foreign policy is understood to be shaped by

societal expectations (domestic norms) which make up the foreign policy identity/culture of a

state. Domestic norms are viewed to be firmly rooted in the historic experiences of a country.

Employing a social constructivist lens thus implies looking at the different foreign policy

identities of France, the UK and Germany - which are made up of “nationally” shared

norms/expectations - in order to explain the differences in the “big-three’s” CFSP-policies.

Methodology:

This project employs qualitative research methods for answering the central research

question. It relies on a systematic and theoretically informed comparison of the CFSP-

policies of France, the UK and Germany vis-à-vis the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In a

first step, the project examines the explanatory power of arguments offered by rational

choice based IR-theories (realism/utilitarian liberalism). Here, the project will rely on the

“congruence procedure” (Boekle et al. 1999) in order to assess whether or not the observed

behaviour of the member states falls within the expected ranges of behaviour as “predicted”

by the rational choice theories (realism/utilitarian liberalism). For this purpose, a testable

rational choice hypothesis is formulated which allows to assess the explanatory power of the

central rational choice based argument (see section 2). In a next step, this project examines

to what degree constructivist arguments can contribute to a better understanding of the

CFSP-policies of France, the UK and Germany. For the identification and operationalisation

of “socially constructed” domestic norms this project will rely on different research strategies.

First, it reviews an extensive body of existing literature when it comes to identifying core

1 Another often made argument used by both realists and utilitarian liberalists is that foreign policy behaviour is dependent on the power resources of a state. It is therefore important to point out that the selected member states are very similar in their power resources (see: Wagner 2002) and that the variable “power/capabilities” can therefore not account for differences in their foreign policy behaviour. 2 In this respect it is important to point out that this research project relies on a modified concept of state security. While traditional forms of (neo)realism define security primarily as military threats from states this narrow definition of security has been increasingly challenged. Scholars like Stanely Hoffman (2000) and Barry Buzan (1997) – whose works are deeply rooted in realist thought – have pointed out the importance of so-called “new security threats” – such as fundamentalism and terrorism or migration pressures.


norms that make up the strategic identity of France, the UK and Germany.3 For the

identification of societal expectations (norms) that specifically relate to the Israeli-Palestinian

context the project analyses two Parliamentary debates on the Middle East for each country

as well as media interviews of the foreign ministers. A number of expert interviews -

conducted at the foreign ministries in Paris, London and Berlin and with Brussels based

diplomats - will also be used.

Literature:

Banchoff, Thomas, 1999: German Identity and European Integration. In: European Journal of International Relations 5(3), 259-289.

Boekle, Henning/Volker Rittberger/Wolfgang Wagner, 1999: Norms and Foreign Policy: Constructivist Foreign Policy Theory. Tübinger Working Paper No.34a.

Buzan, Barry, 1997: Rethinking Security after the Cold War. In: Cooperation and Conflict: Nordic Journal of International Studies 32, 5-28.

Hoffmann, Stanley, 2000: Towards a Common European Foreign and Security Policy? In: Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 38(No.2), 189-198.

Katzenstein, Peter (ed.) 1997: Tamed Power: Germany in Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Marcussen, Martin/Thomas Risse/Daniela Engelmann-Martin/Hans J. Knopf/Klaus Roscher, 1999: Constructing Europe? The evolution of French, British and German nation state identities. In: Journal of European Public Policy 6(4), 614-633.

Wagner, Wolfgang, 2002: Die Konstruktion einer europäischen Außenpolitik, deutsche, französische und britische Ansätze im Vergleich. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.

Previous Research

European social- and employment policy (M.A. thesis), Economic dimension of the Middle East conflict (Project Proposal for the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem).

3 Regarding the first criteria, Germany’s identity is characterized as multilateral/European; France’s identity as unilateral/European and the UK’s identity as transatlantic/European (see: Katzenstein 1997; Banchoff 1999; Marcussen et al. 1999).

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Reinhard Slepcevic E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-223 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Since Oct. 2004 PhD student, University of Vienna

Oct. 2000–Nov. 2004 Graduate, academic degree Mag. Phil. in political science, University of Vienna; master thesis on the involvement of interest groups in the decision-making process of EU’s social policy

Career

Oct. 2005 – Feb. 2006 Tutor at the University of Vienna, Seminar on Social Policy

Nov. 2005 Research Assistant, Trinity College, Dublin

July 2003 Internship, European Environmental Bureau, Brussels

July–Aug. 2002 Internship, Erste Bank – VMG Wien, organisational department


Sept. 2002–June 2003 Scholarship, European Exchange Programme (ERASMUS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English, French (fluent), Spanish (basic)


Research Interests

Current Research Interest

EU's environmental policy, diffuse interests, litigation, preliminary reference procedure, interest groups

Dissertation Outline:

Title: Making European Environmental Law Work through Courts: A Success Story? (September 2006)

Puzzle and Research Question

European environmental law suffers from serious implementation deficits. This is regularly shown by scientific studies and reports of the European Commission. Although the latter is responsible to watch over the correct application of European law, it is for numerous reasons unable to fulfil its role as “guardian of the treaties”. Given this situation, private actors come into play. Scholars have shown that environmental organisations are often the first who realise implementation problems of European environmental law and can thus help to remedy the information deficit of the European Commission. Yet they can also participate more actively in the correct implementation of European environmental law through a system of decentralised law enforcement based on interest group litigation: given the fact that European law is superior to national law, national courts are under the obligation to apply directly effective European law even if it is in conflict with national law. Therefore, environmental organisations enjoying access to national courts can start litigation and try to obtain the annulment of administrative decisions in conflict with European law. This system of decentralised law enforcement has attracted considerable attention in the 1990s, both as regards legislative developments (see e.g. the Aarhus Convention) and scientific research. However, the first studies often report very different effects of national court proceedings on the implementation of European environmental law, although the same European directives are concerned. How can this variance be explained? This leads to the main research question of this dissertation project: What are the conditions under which interest group litigation is successful in implementing European environmental law?

Theory and Hypothesis

In order to answer the research question, I combine different theoretical strands to a “stage model”. The argument runs as follows: In order to explain successful interest group litigation aiming at the correct implementation of European environmental law, three causally connected stages need to be considered (litigation – interpretation – reaction). In each stage,

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the focus is on the behaviour of one key actor (environmental organisations – national courts – competent national authorities). The development on one stage influences substantially the development on the subsequent stages. These stages are gone through over time repeatedly, until either the correct implementation of the European legislation is achieved, or interest group litigation stops at the first stage. For each stage, independent variables are identified and hypotheses are formulated regarding the successfulness of interest group litigation.

Method

In order to answer the research question, I combine a qualitative approach of inquiry based on expert interviews with a comparative small-N study. The countries under study are France, Germany and the Netherlands. They have been selected because they offer sufficient variance of the independent variables derived from the used theoretical framework. The empirical focus lays on the so-called Natura 2000 Directives, i.e. the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive.

Previous Research

The Social Dialogue in the legislative process of the EU: a new form of corporatism at European level?

Abstract

When the Treaty of Maastricht granted three European interest groups privileged and exclusive access to the decision-making process in the field of EU social policy, it was seen as a fundamental change in European labour law, which could lead to some sort of corporatism at the European level. Ten years later, does this prediction still hold?

To answer this question a detailed look is taken at the actors involved, the interests they are pursuing and the existing results of the so-called social partner procedure. It is argued that although some similarities can be found when compared to national forms of corporatism, several structural obstacles made, and still make, corporatism in the field of EU social policy very unlikely. Other approaches of interest intermediation, like pluralism or policy networks, are also not able to capture this procedure as they focus mainly on structural characteristics. I hold the view that a dynamic, process-orientated policy network approach is needed to cover the specific features of the social partner procedure.


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Erik Tajalli E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-188 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since Oct. 2004 Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Since Oct. 2003 Dissertation study at the University of Vienna, Institute of Political Sciences

Jan. 2002 Graduation (Magister) with distinction at the University of Vienna, Institute of Political Sciences

Oct. 1999–Jan. 2002 Continuation of studies at the University of Vienna, Institute of Political Sciences

Aug. 1998–June 1999 Study at the University of Copenhagen, Institut for Statskundskab with an ERASMUS grant;

Feb. 1996–June 1998 Study at the University of Vienna, Institute of Political Sciences; main subject: political sciences; secondary subjects: contemporary history, economics, European law

Career

Sept. 2003–Oct. 2004 Preparing and coaching workshops and seminars for secondary school classes about the European Union at the “Europawochen” of the Interkulturelles Zentrum, Vienna

June 2002–May 2003 Social Service at the Mobiles Hospiz der Caritas Wien

July 2001–Nov. 2001 Work as a costumer consultant at the Creditanstalt/ Bank Austria in Vienna

Sept. 2001 Traineeship at the press office of the Austrian Railroad Services (ÖBB)

March 2000–July 2000 Traineeship at the European Parliament in Brussels as assistant to the MEP-member Claude Turmes


July 1999–Sept. 1999 Work in the Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica (BDP) in Florence – (editing of the EUDISED – database of the Council of Europe; designing and translation from Italian into English and German of a website for the European School Net [multi media teaching])

Oct. 1993 Work as a trainee for General Motors Austria

Oct. 1992 Work for the Caritas Austria with Bosnian refugees


July–Aug. 2004 Participation in the 3rd Hanseatic Baltic Summer School: “The National Implementation of EU Policies” in Hamburg/Germany.

April 2004 Participation in the 5th Central European Conference: “The Price of Transition” in Gardony/Hungary

Since March 2004 Enrolled at the “Doctoral Program” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

July 2003 Grant for the participation in the 10th IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics “Challenges to Democracy” in Cortona/Italy by the “Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen”, Vienna

Dec. 2002 Grant from the University of Vienna for excellent study success

June 2002 Prize from the Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Wien, for Master’s thesis

June 2002 Publication of parts of Master’s thesis in the journal of the Sozialwissenschaftliche Studiengesellschaft “SWS-Rundschau”

Other Information

Languages German (mother tongue), English and French (fluent), Danish, Italian and Farsi (basic)

Research Interests Dissertation Outline

Title: Political Cleavages in the European Parliament. The Services Directive and the Discussion on Services of General Interest (October 2006)


Puzzle and Research Question On January 13th 2004 the Commissioner for the Internal Market, Frits Bolkestein, presented the proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market. This proposal provoked widespread discussions and to a certain extent fierce opposition within civil society. Besides the question of the so called “country of origin principle“ the question of the inclusion or exclusion of public services (Services of General Interest) into the scope of the directive served as a major point of contestation. Therefore, during the discussions, it remained unclear if and how the proposed directive on services impinges on services of general interest. This thesis will analyse the discussion and the debates on the services of general interest in the European Parliament during the deliberations on the Services Directive. More specifically it will ask how the MEPs position themselves and which factors determine their positioning. Considering these points the main research question of my thesis can be put as follows: “Which cleavages characterize the discussion on the liberalisation of services of general interest in the European Parliament and which factors determine these cleavages?” Theories and Hypotheses For analysing the research questions it will be necessary to rely on a framework of different theories and theoretical approaches. I will especially rely on different approaches on the explanation of the European political space which – in one way or another – point out the importance of an ideological left/right dimension and/or the importance of a European integration dimension between the two poles of more integration vs. national sovereignty.1

Using these approaches the explanation of voting behaviour and positioning in the European Parliament can be reduced to two main factors: an ideological factor and a nationality factor. Hix et al. claim that it is primarily the ideological cleavage that explains the behaviour of MEPs: “Politics in the European Parliament is primarily about left right divisions rather than territorial divisions, and is hence like most other democratic parliaments.” (Hix/Abdul/Roland forthcoming: 72). Starting from this conclusion a first hypothesis can be derived: Hypothesis 1: Left-wing parties will argue against the inclusion of services of general interest into the scope of the directive; conservative and right-wing parties will argue for the inclusion of services of general interest into the directive. Other theoretical approaches and empirical studies claim, that it is primarily nationality which best explains voting behaviour and positioning in the European Parliament. Thus, national positioning can be derived from possible economic gains or losses (Moravcsik 1993), national regulatory traditions (Héritier 1996: 151, 154; Börzel 2002: 197) or national varieties

1 For a more detailed overview of the four main approaches see: (Marks/Steenberger 2002)


of capitalism (Brinegar/Jolly/Kitschelt 2004: 85-86). One interesting feature of the public services sector is that specific services are provided by the state (for example the national, regional or local government) for social and/or redistributive reasons. These public services lie at the core of a discussion about how far liberalisation and privatisation policies should reach to ensure a well functioning, effective private market on the one hand and a good provision with public goods at reasonable prices on the other. It is therefore arguable that national positioning concerning this topic is highly influenced by the national welfare system (liberal/residual, conservative, social-democratic/redistributional2). A second hypothesis must take these possible national factors into account: Hypothesis 2: MEPs from member states with a liberal type of welfare state will argue for the inclusion of services of general interest into the directive. MEPs from member states with a redistributional type of welfare state will argue against the inclusion of services of general interest. Country selection and Methods The research question and the hypotheses will be tested by a qualitative comparative case study of the MEPs of two countries. According to the prerequisite of variation on the two factors (ideological left-right division of the MEPs and different national welfare models of the two selected countries) the research will analyse the positioning of the MEPs of France and the United Kingdom. These two countries seem to be especially suitable for the analyses as they have very different political cultures, traditions and experiences regarding the field public services: While the concept of “service public” is deeply entrenched into French political culture (Moral Soriano 2004: 187) the UK is one of the European countries with the longest and most far reaching experiences regarding the privatisation and liberalisation of public services. It seems to be reasonable to start with an analysis of the scientific literature to get an insight into the state of the art and the theoretical debates. This will be accompanied by an in depth analysis of the different documents issued by the MEPs or their political groups regarding the directive and the deliberations in the plenum of the Parliament and of the voting behaviour of the MEPs. Interviews with experts and MEPs from the two countries and from different political groups should help to answer those questions which could not be tackled by the analysis of the relevant documents.

2 For the typology of welfare states see: (Esping-Andersen 1990)


Bibliography

Börzel, Tanja A. (2002) Pace-Setting, Foot-Dragging, and Fence-Sitting: Member State Responses to Europeanization. In: Journal of Common Market Studies 40(2), 193-214.

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Previous Research

“The policy of redistribution in Austria: The redistributional effects of taxes, transfers and public goods”, January 2002, Magister Thesis, University of Vienna, Austria.


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Florian Trauner E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 01-59991-263 Fax: 01-59991-171

Education

Since October 2004 Scholar and Ph.D. Student at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

November 2004 Graduate, academic degree Mag. Phil. (Master of Philosophy); thesis on European foreign policy in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

August 2002 – June 2003 Student of Political Science, University of

Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 1999 – November 2004 Student of Political Science (Major) and a combination of History, Sociology and International Development (Minor), University of Vienna, Austria.

October 1998 – July 1999 Student of Business Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Administration, Austria.

Career Since March 2006 University Lecturer at the Department of Political

Science, Vienna University; teaching on the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Since Nov. 2005 External Research Fellow at the ‘Austrian Institute for International Affairs’ (OIIP) for the EU ‘Consent Project’ – Working Table 24: Internal Security: The External Dimension’.


April - Mid-May 2004 Intern at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.

March 2004 Research Internship at the Permanent Representation of Austria at the European Union, Brussels, Belgium.

June/July – August 2001-2004 Tour Guide for American ‘People to People Student Ambassador Programs’; tournament destinations: GB, F, CH, I, A, GR; Company: PDM Tourismus Consulting AG, Zug, Switzerland.

October 1997- September 1998 National servant; Rescue work, first aid support for “Arbeiter-Samariter Bund”, Linz, Austria.

Other Information/Activities:

Languages English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (fair).

IT MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), SPSS.

Interests: Sports (Soccer, Ultimate Frisbee, Jogging), Literature, and Travelling

Scholarships:

March – April 2004 International Research scholarship, University of Vienna, Austria.

August 2002 – July 2003 Scholarship, European exchange programme ERASMUS.

Publications:

External Aspects of Internal Security: A Research Agenda (2006). Paper drafted for 'EU-CONSENT: Wider Europe - Deeper Integration? Constructing Europe Network'. Project-No. 513416, Lisbon: Instituto d'Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionais (IEEI). <http://www.eu-consent.net/library/D38a.pdf>

Zur Frage der Kohärenz in der Gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union am Beispiel Mazedoniens (2004). Diploma Thesis. Vienna.


Research Interests


EU Foreign and Security Policy, Justice and Home Affairs, Europeanisation, Nationalisation


Title: EU policies for Balkan borders: transferring the acquis on border security to the next candidates (September 2006)

Puzzle and Research Question

Among the many developments that have occurred in the European integration process, two are of particular significance for my research project. The first of these is the way the EU has ceased to see itself as an exclusive club of Western European states in recent years, and has opened its institutions to countries in the East and will do so to countries in the South East. The second is the fact that the distinction between (allegedly inward-looking) policy realms like Justice and Home Affairs and foreign policy issues has gradually blurred, and that this external dimension of intrinsically internal politics has gained considerable importance in the EU’s relations towards countries outside the European framework. Third-countries being perceived as a source of such internal security threats were increasingly confronted with EU policies that made institutional affiliation or/and financial support conditional on cooperation on these issues. They were particularly urged and/or supported to adhere to the Schengen acquis on border controls and visa regimes and to introduce ‘hard borders’ at their own frontiers.

This Ph.D. project elaborates on this process of ‘EU external governance’ (in terms of transfer and adaptation of given EU rules) in the regional setting of the Western Balkans and poses as its key analytical question: to what extent and in which ways have the Western Balkans’ political processes and structures been affected by EU external governance in Justice and Home Affairs? The empirical findings of the analysis will be set out in two case studies of the regions’ frontrunners in the EU’s rapprochement process, namely Croatia and Macedonia. The focus on two case studies has been chosen in order to provide the basis for comparisons regarding similarities and common patterns of EU external governance and additionally, in order to reveal possible variations of domestic responses in view of this policy.

The theoretical and analytical framework

The concept of ‘Europeanisation’, usually applied to research the impact of EU policies and

institutions on political processes and structures in the member states, will be adjusted to the


Western Balkan setting. In doing so, the Europeanisation approach extends the analysis of

integration effects to these likely future member states and concentrates basically on the specific

adaptive requirements associated with EU rapprochement and eventual EU accession (Grabbe,

2003).

Within this analytical framework, the form of EU external governance that is used to encourage these states to pursue EU policies and what determines the shape of this policy will be examined. Two models are taken into account (but considered to be not necessarily mutually exclusive): first, the ‘external incentives model of governance’ (Schimmelfennig/Sedelmeier, 2004: 663f), i.e. a bargaining strategy of reinforcement by reward under which the EU provides external incentives for a target government to comply with its conditions. In this case, the EU capitalizes on its authoritative position vis-à-vis the Western Balkan states who are eager to become part of or closely affiliated with the Union. Second, a model is acknowledged that follows basically core tenets of social constructivism and that constitutes the most prominent alternative to the rationalist explanations of conditionality, the so-called ‘social learning model’ (Checkel, 2001). It assumes that not coercion but a logic of appropriateness determines actor behaviour. In doing so, the actors are motivated by internalised identities, values and norms and choose - facing different courses of action - the most appropriate or legitimate one.

Methods of analysis

The analysis will be carried out through an investigation of textual material from the European institutions, from relevant ministerial documents of Croatian and Macedonian officials, as well as through the evaluation of relevant secondary literature and media reports. The methodology of ‘process tracing’ is applied to reconstruct the policy-making process in sufficient detail and to filter out the Union’s influence from other institutions. Additionally, the project will draw on interviews (semi-structured) that are conducted with policy actors involved in or subject to the ‘EU external governance’ in this regard. Selected References

Batt, Judy (ed.), 2004: The Western Balkans: moving on. Chaillot Paper, No. 70, Paris: Institute for Security Studies

Checkel, Jeffrey T., 2001: Why comply? Social learning and European Identity Change. In: International Organization, 55 (3), 553 - 588.

European Security Strategy, 2003: A Secure Europe in a Better World - The European Security Strategy. Brussels: 12 December 2003. <http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/78367.pdf>


Grabbe, Heather, 2003: Europeanization Goes East: Power and Uncertainty in the EU Accession Process. In: Kevin Featherstone/Claudio M. Radaelli (Hrsg.), The Politics of Europeanization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 303 - 331.

Lavenex, Sandra, 2004: EU external governance in 'wider Europe'. In: Journal of European Public Policy, 11 (4), 680 - 700.

Lindahl, Hans, 2004: Finding Place for Freedom, Security and Justice: The European Union's Claim to Territorial Unity. Constitionalism Web Papers, ConWEB No. 1. <http://www.les1.man.ac.uk/conweb/>

Linden, Ronald H. (Hrsg.), 2002: Norms and Nannies. The impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States. Lanham/Boulder/New York/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Schimmelfennig, Frank/Ulrich Sedelmeier, 2002: Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus, hypotheses, and the state of research. In: Journal of European Public Policy, 9 (4), 500 - 528.

Schimmelfennig, Frank/Ulrich Sedelmeier, 2004: Governance by conditionality: EU rule transfer to the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In: Journal of European Public Policy, 11 (4), 661 - 679.

van Meurs, Wim (Hrsg.), 2003: Prospects and Risks beyond EU Enlargement. Southeastern Europe: Weak States and Strong International Support. Opladen: Leske + Budrich

Wallace, Helen, 2001: Enlargement of the European Union: Impacts on the EU, the Candidates and the 'Next Neighbors'. In: ESCA Review, 14 (1), 2-7. <http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00000063/01/enlargementforum.html>

Previous Research:

“The issue of coherence in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy in the case of Macedonia“ (Zur Frage der Kohärenz in der Gemeinsamen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union am Beispiel Mazedoniens), September 2004, University of Vienna.

Abstract:

The EU Foreign and Security Policy is often examined by its performance in the region of the former Yugoslavia. For the most part the assessment of the policy output – which usually deals with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo – is quite critical and even scathing. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia often received less attention, even though the EU claims that in this republic their policy was remarkably effective in terms of preventing armed conflicts and defusing conflict situations. The aims of this thesis are to examine the status and changes in the Common Foreign and Security Policy; to determine based on the concrete example of Macedonia, how it is linked to both national foreign policies and to European (economic) foreign relations; and to evaluate the role the EU played in the various challenges for Macedonia. The objective is to research to what extent treaty reforms or policy changes by the EU-member states had an


impact on the “outcome” of the EU’s policy in Macedonia and enabled the EU to increase the “coherence” of the policy towards. The treatment is divided into three different time-periods, but covers the whole timeframe from the independence of Macedonia in 1991 to Macedonia’s EU-application in 2004. The first time span covers the years 1991 – 1995 dealing with the efforts of the EU-actors in finding a common position on the recognition of Macedonia; the second time period (1995 – 2001) discusses the Stabilisation- and Association process of the EU for the Western Balkan states, in which the policy for Macedonia was embedded. In the final part the focus is turned to the Macedonia-crisis in 2001 and the role the EU took during and after the conflict. In conclusion it is argued that eventually the European Union developed a more coherent policy towards Macedonia and could thus contribute to a certain (provisional) stabilisation.

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