Fabio Franchino is Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano
How Politicians Balance National, Supranational and Economic Pressures in Governing the European Economy
Balancing Pressures analyses how the economy, national politics, and supranational politics shape economic policymaking in the European Union. Spanning the period from 1994 to 2019, the book analyses how these pressures shaped the definition of the policy problems, the controversies surrounding policy reforms, the outcome, timing, and direction of reforms, the negotiations over preventive surveillance, the compliance with recommendations, and the use and effectiveness of the procedure to correct excessive fiscal deficits. The book concludes by assessing the effectiveness, fairness, and responsiveness of the policy.
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The Excessive Deficit Oversight of the European Union Works
Since 1994, the budgetary process of European Union governments can be subject to a supranational oversight procedure if the deficit is deemed excessive. Does it work? In brief, yes. In this work, I show that the impact of surveillance during budget drafting offsets that of a two-year shortening of expected government duration, the addition of…
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Bargaining outcomes and success in EU economic governance reforms
We assess the accuracy of procedural and bargaining models in predicting the outcomes of the reforms of the economic governance of the European Union (EU) that took place between 1997 and 2013. These negotiations were characterized by high costs of failure. We confirm the accuracy and robustness of the compromise model, but a procedural model…
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Noncompliance risk, asymmetric power and enforcement design
In the European Union, states can distribute enforcement prerogatives between a supranational agency, over which they exercise equal influence, and a Council of ministers, where power resources mostly vary by country size. What shapes attitudes towards different enforcement designs? States at greater risk of noncompliance should eschew deeper cooperation and prefer procedures over which they…
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Electoral competitiveness and responsiveness in the EU
Several studies have reported a relationship between governments’ behaviour in the EU Council and public opinion. However, doubts remain about which mechanisms drive this relationship. We argue that governments align their behaviour with public opinion to forestall future electoral sanctions (rational anticipation). To test this, we deduce hitherto untested observable implications of rational anticipation which…
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PRINCIPI DI SCIENZA POLITICA 2/ED
Principi di scienza politica è la migliore introduzione alla disciplina a livello internazionale. Questo testo trasforma studenti interessati al mondo politico che li circonda in osservatori analitici e sofisticati. Il volume offre una chiara e rigorosa introduzione dell’applicazione del metodo scientifico allo studio della politica e una tra le più complete e aggiornate rassegne delle…
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Politicization and EU economic governance
Does politicization – the expansion of the scope of national conflict – shape EU policy design? Are the functional pressures shaping design disrupted? We address these questions with regard to the EU economic governance regime in this @jepp_journal article. We reach the following conclusions: a) This regime, based heavily on Council-centred enforcement, is clearly not…