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Expanding actorness to explain EU external engagement in originally internal policy areas.
- Source :
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Journal of European Public Policy . Jan2020, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p122-140. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Despite its increasing importance for European integration, there remains a lack of scholarly attention to the growth of EU external action in originally internal policy areas. This article advances a comprehensive framework for understanding and explaining the emergence of EU external engagement in such areas. It combines insights from two sets of literatures: the EU external relations literature offers useful concepts – particularly 'actorness' – as building blocks for explanatory purposes, while the public policy literature provides relevant insights regarding policy entrepreneurship and agenda-setting. The article contends that EU external engagement results from a favourable interplay between an external 'opportunity' and the EU's 'presence' in a given domain, which is identified and capitalized upon by a set of policy entrepreneurs, who are driven by interest-based and/or ideational motives. To evaluate the salience of the framework, the article applies it across several policy areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *POLITICAL entrepreneurship
*EUROPEAN integration
*GOVERNMENT policy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13501763
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of European Public Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140233853
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1561742