Europe's Global Role: External Policies of the European Union – Edited by J. Orbie: BOOK REVIEWS (original) (raw)

Institutions, policies, and arguments: context and strategy in EU policy framing

Journal of European Public Policy, 2015

Studies of framing in the EU political system are still a rarity and they suffer from a lack of systematic empirical analysis. Addressing this gap, we ask if institutional and policy contexts intertwined with the strategic side of framing can explain the number and types of frames employed by different stakeholders. We draw on framing theory, policy analysis and a conception of the European Union as a multilevel system to develop our arguments about the impact of contexts and strategy on the framing dynamics in EU financial market regulation and environmental policy. We use a computer assisted manual content analysis and develop a fourfold typology of frames to study the frames that were prevalent in the debates on four EU policy proposals at the EU level and in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The main empirical finding is that both contexts and strategies exert a significant impact on the number and types of frames in EU policy debates. In conceptual terms, the article contributes to developing more fine-grained tools for studying frames and their underlying dimensions.

Issue salience in the European policy process: what impact on transposition?

Journal of European Public Policy, 2013

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Crashing and creeping: agenda-setting dynamics in the European Union

Journal of European Public Policy, 2006

Agenda-setting in the EU takes place in two ways: ‘from above’through high-level political institutions urging EU action, and ‘from below’through policy experts formulating specific proposals in low-level groups andworking parties. This article formulates a theoretical framework for understanding the differences between these two processes. Moreover, it shows how they may inter-act and become intertwined in the course of actual agenda-setting processes. Theutility of the approach is demonstrated in two contrasting case studies: one of EU anti-smoking policy and one of EU anti-bioterrorism policy.