Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice

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dc.contributor.authorVerdun, Amy
dc.contributor.authorZeitlin, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-05T23:47:54Z
dc.date.available2021-02-05T23:47:54Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe ‘European Semester’, a new framework for policy co-ordination across European Union (EU) member states, represents a major step in EU governance. Created in 2010 in the wake of the financial and sovereign debt crises and revamped in 2015, it was intended to provide a new socioeconomic governance architecture to co-ordinate national policies without transferring full sovereignty to the EU level. This introduction offers a brief overview and assessment of the European Semester, examining its implications along three critical axes, running respectively between the economic and the social, the supranational and the intergovernmental, and the technocratic and democratic poles of EU governance. We introduce and briefly summarize the seven other contributions that make up this collection. Our conclusions are that the European Semester challenges established theoretical understandings of EU governance, as it is a prime example of the complexity that supersedes simple polar oppositions.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE), University of Amsterdam/VU University Amsterdam; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: [Grant Number 435-2015-0943].en_US
dc.identifier.citationVerdun, A. & Zeitlin, J. (2017). Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(2), 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1363807en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1363807
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12656
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of European Public Policyen_US
dc.subjectdemocracyen_US
dc.subjectEuropean semesteren_US
dc.subjectintergovernmentalismen_US
dc.subjectpolicy co-ordinationen_US
dc.subjectsocioeconomic governanceen_US
dc.subjectsupranationalismen_US
dc.subjecttechnocracyen_US
dc.titleIntroduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practiceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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