EU-focused knowledge and its potential for mobilization

Autor: Pieper, Karin
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
Wirtschaft
Politikwissenschaft
Economics
Political science
Europeanization
new Member States
Poland
tacit knowledge
cohesion policy
Lisbon Strategy
Berufsforschung
Berufssoziologie

Europapolitik
Occupational Research
Occupational Sociology

European Politics
EU
lobby
socialization
EU member state
representative
European integration
European institution
knowledge
EU policy
administration
administrative occupation
socioeconomic factors
EU expansion
European cooperation
sociocultural factors
European market
professional experience
domestic policy
co-worker
national identity
europäische Institution
EU-Erweiterung
europäischer Markt
EU-Staat
Verwaltung
sozioökonomische Faktoren
Sozialisation
europäische Integration
Abgeordneter
Europäisierung
Innenpolitik
europäische Zusammenarbeit
Berufserfahrung
EU-Politik
Verwaltungsberuf
Mitarbeiter
Lobby
soziokulturelle Faktoren
nationale Identität
Wissen
empirisch
empirisch-quantitativ
empirical
quantitative empirical
Zdroj: 2, Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989, 13
Druh dokumentu: Arbeitspapier<br />working paper
Popis: After the accession to the European Union in 2004 and 2007, political actors of new member states are equally represented in all EU institutions. In addition to the political level, a huge body of medium to high-level administrative staff and lobbyists has moved to this specific European labour market. After a phase of asymmetrical power constellations during the accession process, how can, after 2004, the real participation in the policy-making process in the enlarged EU of 25 Member States (EU-25) be characterized? How do participants of Central and East European Member States (EU-8) act in the new surrounding, given that all EU-institutions themselves are much more heterogeneous and in a process of consolidation and adjustment? Given that newcomers could not yet fully exploit the possibilities of negotiations in the policy-making process and their style of lobbying, negotiating and bargaining still is in need of a necessary fine-tuning, the aim of this paper is to highlight constellations in the field of EU cohesion policy, in which actors of this Brussels scene were - although regarded as a peripheral group - able through formal and informal exchange of knowledge to act as promoters of the elaborated EU-inspired thinking and socio-economic positioning. Factors influencing the arena of negotiations are, firstly, whether participants are - at a societal-cultural level - able to react in an adequate manner. This personal disposition is based on working experience and the study background, thus the level of socialisation in an international and European-oriented context. The second vector of influence is based on the national background and on domestic politics: Which is the room of manoeuvre for participants to act as promoter or transmitter? The analysis of this potential for mobilization is based on expert interviews with MEP, EU officials and lobbyists of new member states carried through in spring and autumn of 2007 in Brussels.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository