Talkin’ bout a revolution? Institutional change in the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of climate policy

Bocquillon, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-4384, Brooks, Eleanor and Maltby, Tomas (2023) Talkin’ bout a revolution? Institutional change in the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility: the case of climate policy. Journal of Common Market Studies. ISSN 0021-9886

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Abstract

The European Union (EU) post-COVID-19 investment and reform programme, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), has been hailed as novel and ambitious, both as a fiscal instrument and as a lever for accelerating progress towards EU climate commitments. Yet, its design also exhibits strong path dependency, drawing on existing processes and commitments. Adapting theories of institutional change and models of hard/soft governance, we argue that the RRF is an example of significant yet gradual change – of evolution rather than revolution – taking place via layering and conversion of existing frameworks, and alteration of their logics of action. We show how the RRF repurposes the European Semester and track continuity and change in climate policy, a key priority area. Our findings suggest that the literature on institutional change should give greater consideration to the interplay between layering and conversion as a mechanism of gradual yet transformative evolution.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy 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 Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2023 15:30
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2023 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92723
DOI:	10.1111/jcms.13536

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