The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism
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Resumo: | The economic and financial crisis opened a window of opportunity to place the Single Market back on top of the European agenda as part of a two-tiered crisis response, which also included reinforced financial supervision and economic co-ordination. We argue that the Commission acted as a ‘purposeful opportunist’ in both tiers; but whereas in economic governance issues there was breakthrough change in the Commission's achievements and competences, in the Single Market realm policy change was fairly modest. Using process tracing analysis our goal is to explain why the Commission did not succeed in furthering a genuine Single Market reform. Our findings suggest that the Commission's entrepreneurship was constrained by the limited salience of Single Market issues in the crisis context and by the lack of actual political commitment from the other relevant stakeholders. Thus, our research highlights the limits of the Commission's opportunistic behaviour in less advantageous circumstances. |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful OpportunismEuropean Commissionsingle marketcrisispurposeful opportunismissue salienceThe economic and financial crisis opened a window of opportunity to place the Single Market back on top of the European agenda as part of a two-tiered crisis response, which also included reinforced financial supervision and economic co-ordination. We argue that the Commission acted as a ‘purposeful opportunist’ in both tiers; but whereas in economic governance issues there was breakthrough change in the Commission's achievements and competences, in the Single Market realm policy change was fairly modest. Using process tracing analysis our goal is to explain why the Commission did not succeed in furthering a genuine Single Market reform. Our findings suggest that the Commission's entrepreneurship was constrained by the limited salience of Single Market issues in the crisis context and by the lack of actual political commitment from the other relevant stakeholders. Thus, our research highlights the limits of the Commission's opportunistic behaviour in less advantageous circumstances.University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd2016-12-21T10:42:48Z2016-12-212016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/19408http://hdl.handle.net/10174/19408https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12464engCamisão, I., and Guimarães, M. H. (2016) The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, doi: 10.1111/jcms.12464.1468-5965http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12464/fulliafc@uevora.ptnd259Camisão, IsabelGuimarães, Maria Helenainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-03T19:07:45Zoai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/19408Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:10:45.487215Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism Camisão, Isabel European Commission single market crisis purposeful opportunism issue salience |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism |
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Camisão, Isabel |
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Camisão, Isabel Guimarães, Maria Helena |
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Guimarães, Maria Helena |
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Camisão, Isabel Guimarães, Maria Helena |
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European Commission single market crisis purposeful opportunism issue salience |
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European Commission single market crisis purposeful opportunism issue salience |
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The economic and financial crisis opened a window of opportunity to place the Single Market back on top of the European agenda as part of a two-tiered crisis response, which also included reinforced financial supervision and economic co-ordination. We argue that the Commission acted as a ‘purposeful opportunist’ in both tiers; but whereas in economic governance issues there was breakthrough change in the Commission's achievements and competences, in the Single Market realm policy change was fairly modest. Using process tracing analysis our goal is to explain why the Commission did not succeed in furthering a genuine Single Market reform. Our findings suggest that the Commission's entrepreneurship was constrained by the limited salience of Single Market issues in the crisis context and by the lack of actual political commitment from the other relevant stakeholders. Thus, our research highlights the limits of the Commission's opportunistic behaviour in less advantageous circumstances. |
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Camisão, I., and Guimarães, M. H. (2016) The Commission, the Single Market and the Crisis: The Limits of Purposeful Opportunism. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, doi: 10.1111/jcms.12464. 1468-5965 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12464/full iafc@uevora.pt nd 259 |
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