Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Policy dismantling in a hyperconsensual polity

Gravey, Viviane and Jordan, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7678-1024 (2016) Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Policy dismantling in a hyperconsensual polity. Journal of European Public Policy, 23 (8). pp. 1180-1198. ISSN 1350-1763

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Abstract

The financial crisis has triggered demands to halt and even reverse the expansion of European Union (EU) policies. But have these and previous demands actually resulted in policy dismantling? The existing literature has charted the rise of dismantling discourses such as subsidiarity and better regulation, but has not examined the net effect on the acquis. For the first time, this contribution addresses this gap in the literature through an empirical study of policy change between 1992 and 2014. It is guided by a coding framework which captures the direction of policy change. It reveals that, despite its disposition towards consensualism, the EU has become a new locus of policy dismantling. However, not all policies targeted have been cut; many have stayed the same and some have even expanded. It concludes by identifying new directions for research on a topic that has continually fallen into the analytical blind spot of EU scholars.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	austerity,blame avoidance,deregulation,environmental policy,european union,policy dismantling
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2016 09:00
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 12:36
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59607
DOI:	10.1080/13501763.2016.1186208

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