From Regulation to Enforcement in the EU Policy Cycle: A New Type of Functional Spillover?
Scholten, M. and Scholten, D. (2016) 'From Regulation to Enforcement in the EU Policy Cycle: A New Type of Functional Spillover?'. Journal of Common Market Studies: (Volume 55 (4), pp. 925-942, July 2017 in print).
Posted: 28 Sep 2017
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From Regulation to Enforcement in the EU Policy Cycle: A New Type of Functional Spillover?
From Regulation to Enforcement in the EU Policy Cycle: A New Type of Functional Spillover?
Date Written: July 2017
Abstract
The European Union has acquired enforcement competences in areas where it previously only had regulatory authority. This expansion of competences from one step in the policy cycle to another is a blind spot in the works on functional spillover. While the increasing enforcement powers of the EU are mentioned, it is in the context of more competences, not what type. This paper investigates the nature of this ‘policy cycle type of functional spillover’, argues that this is a new type of functional spillover and discusses the significance of this finding. The paper offers original data concerning the expansion of EU's competences in direct enforcement.
Keywords: spillover, neo-functionalism, EU integration, regulation, enforcement, policy cycle
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