The Open Method as a New Mode of Governance: The Case of Soft Economic Policy Co-ordination

By D. Hodson, Imelda Maher. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Europe's deliberative intergovernmentalism: the role of the Council and European Council in EU economic governance (2012, background): “…and EU policy co-ordination, it is noteworthy that a large number of institutionalist-inspired approaches emphasize the relevance of policy learning and deliberation as well as consensus-oriented decision-making (see e.g. Hodson and Maher 2001; Jacobsson 2004; Pochet 2004; Trubek and Mosher 2003).”
The New Intergovernmentalism: European Integration in the Post‐Maastricht Era (2015, positive): “The Lisbon Strategy of 2000 (which lives on in ‘Europe 2020’) was the clearest evidence that Member States preferred peer pressure and consensus-building under the open method of co-ordination to the codification of reform commitments under the Community method (Hodson and Maher, 2001).”
Soft regulation and the subtle transformation of states: the case of EU employment policy (2004, methodology): “On the open method of coordination in general, see Borrás and Jacobsson (2004), De la Porte (2002), De la Porte and Pochet (2002), Hodson and Maher (2001).”
An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report (2004, background): “OMC (Hodson and Maher, 2001; Rodrigues, 2002) is the chosen instrument for drawing together policymakers from across the Member States into a process of comparing national approaches to the common policy goals.”
Open coordination against poverty: the new EU `social inclusion process' (2002, methodology): “…indicators and benchmarks as a means of comparing best practice; translating these guidelines into national and regional policies; and periodic monitoring, evaluation and peer review organized as mutual learning processes (de la Porte et al., 2001; Hodson and Maher, 2001; Trubek and Mosher, 2001).”
National Climate Change Policies and Sustainable Water Management: Conflicts and Synergies (2011, background): “…of the multitude of mainstream integrative mechanisms, sometimes described as the “open method of policy coordination” and “networked governance” (Hodson and Maher 2001, Laffan 2001, Schout and Jordan 2005) (albeit often criticized for inadequate environmental policy integration), the EU…”
European Governance: Negotiation and Competition in the Shadow of Hierarchy (2010, neutral): “level nor in their implementation at the national level ( Hodson and Maher, 2001; Heritier,”
New Governance in the European Union: A Theoretical Perspective (2004, methodology): “New modes of governance are most important in the area of economic policy co-ordination among members of the European Monetary Union (Hodson and Maher, 2001) and in social policy (Goetschy, 2003).”