Building national ownership of the European Semester: the role of European Semester officers

dc.contributor.authorMunta, Mario
dc.contributor.unitDepartment of Political Science
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-16T14:43:26Z
dc.date.available2023-06-16T14:43:26Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe European Semester of socio-economic policy coordination has been criticised for poor capacity to induce national ownership of reforms. Reacting to these pressures, the European Commission intensified bilateral and multilateral efforts to increase the legitimacy of the Semester. European Semester officers (ESOs) were sent to Commission’s representations in Member States to reinforce policy dialogue. This paper spells out to what extent and how ESOs contribute to national ownership and throughput legitimacy of the European Semester in Member States. The findings suggest that ESOs are an important domestic link in fostering throughput legitimacy of the European semester by way of establishing dialogue with domestic actors and justifying the reasoning behind Commission’s initiatives. Conversely, they succeed less in transmitting stakeholders’ policy concerns and suggestions to the Commission. ESOs’ domestic engagement could, nonetheless, serve as an entry point for Commission’s future efforts in building domestic ownership and hence reducing blame-shifting practices.
dc.description.versionPublished version
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23745118.2019.1601323
dc.identifier.issn2374-5118, 2374-5126
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13948
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23745118.2019.1601323
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.epage52
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.journalabbrevEuropean Politics and Society
dc.source.journaltitleEuropean Politics and Society
dc.source.spage36
dc.source.volume21
dc.titleBuilding national ownership of the European Semester: the role of European Semester officers
dc.typeJournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
refterms.dateFOA2023-06-16T14:43:26Z
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