Mendeltje van Keulen
Mendeltje van Keulen, M.A., is a fellow for European Studies at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘Clingendael’.
Mendeltje van Keulen
Going Europe or Going Dutch?
How the Dutch Government Shapes European Union Policy
The European Union has a huge impact on the government and policies of its member states. It is thus surprising that the ways in which national governments attempt to shape EU policies is a topic seriously understudied. This book discusses relevant academic insights and presents a framework for analysing national interest representation. The empirical part discusses the EU policy of the Dutch government throughout the 1990s and presents a reconstuction of the negotiations on two internal market directives. It thereby offers both for academics and practitioners a clear oversight of the making of European poliices and the relevant moments and instruments for national interest representation.
Author
- Title
- Going Europe or Going Dutch?
- Subtitle
- How the Dutch Government Shapes European Union Policy
- Author
- Mendeltje van Keulen
- Price
- € 56,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789053568743
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 08 - 03 - 2006
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- Clingendael Dissertations
- Category
- Politics and Government
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
Table of Contents - 6
Acknowledgements - 8
Figures and tables - 10
Chapter 1. Opening the black box - 12
1. Introduction - 12
2. Why study governments in the EU? - 13
3. About definitions and scope - 18
4. Organisation of the book - 25
Chapter 2. Governments in European integration theory - 28
1. A tale of two why-questions - 28
2. Neofunctionalism - 29
3. Intergovernmentalism - 36
4. Discussion - 41
Chapter 3. Governments in the theoretical new Europe - 44
1. Introduction - 44
2. Integration theory on the move from ‘why’ to ‘how’ - 44
3. Multi-level governance: the messy state - 46
4. How Europe hits home: studies of Europeanisation - 50
5. A new ‘opportunity-structure’ for national governments - 57
6. Discussion - 69
Chapter 4. Designing a framework for analysis - 72
1. Introduction - 72
2. Relevant variables: a literature review - 73
3. Fitting variables into a framework - 78
4. Discussion - 97
Chapter 5. How the Netherlands shapes EU-policy - 106
1. Introduction - 106
2. Stable core values in the Netherlands’ EU policy - 107
3. The growing doubts of a founding father - 111
4. The shaping potential of the Dutch government - 114
5. Relevant developments in the 1990s - 118
6. Discussion - 121
Chapter 6. Research design for the case-studies - 126
1. Introduction - 126
2. In search of a research method - 126
3. Intensive process tracing and analysis - 130
4. Sources and methods of data collection - 138
Chapter 7. Shaping the Gas Directive - 142
1. Introduction - 142
2. The decision context: backgrounds - 143
3. Identifying key actors - 145
4. A bird’s eye view on the decision-making process - 152
5. Reconstructing negotiations around key issues - 157
6. A reconstruction of Dutch shaping attempts - 164
7. Discussion - 170
Chapter 8. Shaping the Biopatent Directive - 176
1. Introduction - 176
2. The decision context: backgrounds - 177
3. Identifying key actors - 179
4. A bird’s eye view on the shaping process - 183
5. Reconstructing negotiations around key issues - 189
6. A reconstruction of Dutch shaping attempts - 194
7. Discussion - 200
Chapter 9. Discussion and Conclusions - 206
1. Introduction - 206
2. Discussing the Dutch government’s shaping capacity - 206
3. Confronting results with theory - 215
4. Avenues for further research - 222
5. To conclude - 229
References - 232
Appendix: The EU Policy Process in Brussels and The Hague - 248
Nederlandse samenvatting - 256
About the author - 264
