The EU Timescape (Journal of European Public Policy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041569633X ISBN 13: 9780415696333

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision-making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This book makes a case for the systematic study of political time in the European Union (EU) - both as an independent and a dependent variable - and highlights the analytical value-added of a time-centred analysis. The book discusses previous scholarship on the institutionalization of political time and its consequences along the dimensions of polity, politics and policy; reviews dominant perspectives on political time, which centre on power, system performance and legitimacy; and presents case studies that illustrate the importance of time in the governance of the EU. 

This book was original published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

About this title

About the Author:

Klaus H. Goetz holds the Chair in German and European Politics and Government at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling is a Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 041569633X
• ISBN 13: 9780415696333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Goetz Klaus, Meyer-Sahling Jan-Hinrik