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Papers by Liesbet Hooghe

Governance, 2021

This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational a... more This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension between the drive to reap the functional benefits of scale diversity in a globalizing economy and the pressures arising from collective self‐rule. We build on the research in this special issue to highlight some tangible effects of this tension for policy, politics, and polity. Subnational and supranational governance are conventionally perceived as separate phenomena with distinct consequences, and yet they are intimately connected in a fluid territorial architecture of multilevel governance.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, created in 1992 and currently directed by Profess... more The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, created in 1992 and currently directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research on the major issues facing the process of European integration, European societies and Europe's place in 21st century global politics. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes, projects and data sets, in addition to a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration, the expanding membership of the European Union, developments in Europe's neighbourhood and the wider world.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Brigid La... more The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Brigid Laffan since September 2013, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union.

Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxfo... more Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work.

West European Politics, 2008

This article provides an overview of the study of the European Union since the doldrums of the 19... more This article provides an overview of the study of the European Union since the doldrums of the 1970s. We focus on three debates that have helped to shape the field. Has European integration centralised state control or is European integration part of a process of dispersion of authority? What is the role of identity in framing preferences over European integration? And, finally, is European integration part of a new political cleavage? We observe that the European Union is a moving target. It has a habit of throwing up new and unexpected facts which wrong-foot extant theories. We have no grounds for believing that this will not continue.

This article compares preferences for Europeanizing thirteen policies among European elites, nati... more This article compares preferences for Europeanizing thirteen policies among European elites, national elites, and public opinion. Elites are more willing to cede national authority in sovereignty areas, but citizens are more favorable to EU social policies. Are there contrasting logics at work? The answer is two-sided. Elites and public preferences are similar in that both are least enthusiastic about Europeanizing high-spending policies. Here is a common distributional logic: shifting authority could de-stabilize vested interests. However, as the single market intensifies labor market volatility, the public seeks to contain this distributional risk through selectively Europeanizing market-flanking policies. In contrast, elite preferences are consistent with a functional rationale, which conceives European integration as an optimal solution for internalizing externalities beyond the national state.

Territory, Politics, Governance

This symposium Regional Authority and the Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance engages two rece... more This symposium Regional Authority and the Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance engages two recent books on regional governance. The first sets out a measure of regional authority for 81 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific between 1950 and 2010. The second theorizes how regional governance is shaped by functional and communal pressures. These pressures are detected in many historical episodes of jurisdictional reform. These books seek to pin them down empirically. Community and efficiency appear to have tangible and contrasting effects that explain how jurisdictions are designed, why regional governance has become differentiated and how multilevel governance has deepened over the past several decades. The symposium consists of contributions by Kent Eaton, Jean

The Review of International Organizations

This article argues that the chief challenge to international governance is an emerging political... more This article argues that the chief challenge to international governance is an emerging political cleavage, which pits nationalists against immigration, free trade, and international authority. While those on the radical left contest international governance for its limits, nationalists reject it in principle. A wide-ranging cultural and economic reaction has reshaped political conflict in Europe and the United States and is putting into question the legitimacy of the rule of law among states.

In this article we set out a fine-grained measure of the formal authority of intermediate subnati... more In this article we set out a fine-grained measure of the formal authority of intermediate subnational government for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand that is designed to be a flexible tool in the hands of researchers and policymakers. It improves on prior measures by providing annual estimates across ten dimensions of regional authority; it disaggregates to the level of the individual region; and it examines individual regional tiers, asymmetric regions, and regions with special arrangements. We use the measure and its elements to summarize six decades of regional governance in Southeast Asia and conclude by noting how the Regional Authority index could further the dialogue between theory and empirics in the study of decentralization and democratization.

The Review of International Organizations, 2014

We conceive authority of an international organization as latent in two independent dimensions: d... more We conceive authority of an international organization as latent in two independent dimensions: delegation by states to international agents and pooling in collective decision making bodies. We theorize that delegation and pooling are empirically as well as conceptually different. Delegation is an effort to deal with the transaction costs of cooperation which are greater in larger, broader, and correspondingly more complex organizations. Pooling reflects the tension between protecting or surrendering the national veto. This paper theorizes that delegation and pooling are constrained by two basic design features: a) the scope of an IO's policy portfolio and b) the scale of its membership. We test these hypotheses with a new cross-sectional dataset that provides detailed and reliable information on IO decision making. Our major finding is that the design of international organizations is framed by stark and intelligible choices, but in surprising ways. Large membership organizations tend to have both more delegation and more pooling. The broader the policy scope of an IO, the more willing are its members to delegate, but the less willing they are to pool authority.

Why should wait for some days to get or receive the the european commission of the twenty first c... more Why should wait for some days to get or receive the the european commission of the twenty first century book that you order? Why should you take it if you can get the faster one? You can find the same book that you order right here. This is it the book that you can receive directly after purchasing. This the european commission of the twenty first century is well known book in the world, of course many people will try to own it. Why don't you become the first? Still confused with the way? The reason of why you can receive and get this the european commission of the twenty first century sooner is that this is the book in soft file form. You can read the books wherever you want even you are in the bus, office, home, and other places. But, you may not need to move or bring the book print wherever you go. So, you won't have heavier bag to carry. This is why your choice to make better concept of reading is really helpful from this case. Knowing the way how to get this book is also valuable. You have been in right site to start getting this information. Get the link that we provide right here and visit the link. You can order the book or get it as soon as possible. You can quickly download this the european commission of the twenty first century after getting deal. So, when you need the book quickly, you can directly receive it. It's so easy and so fats, isn't it? You must prefer to this way.

European Union Politics, 2007

On the surface, not much has changed in the European Union (EU). Its welloiled institutional mach... more On the surface, not much has changed in the European Union (EU). Its welloiled institutional machinery continues to produce directives, regulations, and decisions. Business goes on as usual. But the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in the heartland of Europe in the spring of 2005 was a watershed. The permissive consensus that shielded the machinery's operators from accountability is not just under strain; it is broken. At stake here is not merely a particular outcome but the way in which decisions are made. 1 Since the 1990s, European integration has become measurably more contentious-in the media, in social movements, and, most prominently, among national political parties and public opinion (

History of humanity, 1994

cover all forms of trafficking indicated in the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol. In Cuba, the ... more cover all forms of trafficking indicated in the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol. In Cuba, the legislation only addresses trafficking for sexual exploitation. Investigations and suspects In the Bahamas, the first three prosecutions for trafficking in persons registered in the country were conducted in 2014. Two Jamaican women and one man from the Bahamas were suspected in two of the three cases. Source: UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons. In 2013, 10 cases of trafficking in persons were investigated in the Barbados. In the same year, three persons (one male and two females) were arrested and prosecuted. In 2015, six persons were arrested for trafficking; four males and two females. No convictions were recorded during the period here considered.

ABSTRACT This paper examines how a strategic subset of the European Union's political eli... more ABSTRACT This paper examines how a strategic subset of the European Union's political elite, senior career officials in the European Commission, conceive of relations between state and market in Europe. Traditional studies have assumed that contention in the European Union is primarily territorial, but recent research has identified a non-territorial, ideological cleavage. This paper uses questionnaire data with 105 officials to test hypotheses on territorial and non-territorial sources of variation in officials' views about European capitalism. It is found that a non-territorial factor, partisanship, profoundly structures top officials' beliefs. Partisan officials are receptive to the world of parties and national capitals outside the Commission, while non-partisans get cues from their position and history in the Commission.

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This chapter explores the role of the Commission in institutional change in the EU. Building upon... more This chapter explores the role of the Commission in institutional change in the EU. Building upon a case study of the Commission’s central role in cohesion policy since the mid-1980s, I examine theoretical implications for understanding how the rules of the game may be altered.