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    The little engine that wouldn’t: supranational entrepreneurship and the Barroso Commission

    Hodson, Dermot (2013) The little engine that wouldn’t: supranational entrepreneurship and the Barroso Commission. Journal of European Integration 35 (3), pp. 301-314. ISSN 0703-6337.

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    Abstract

    This paper seeks to evaluate and explain the degree of supranational entrepreneurship shown by the European Commission following the global financial crisis. Focusing on the period 2007–2011, it finds that the Commission used its right of initiative and/or mobilised ideas and information to pursue a supranational European Union (EU) economic policy in few cases. These findings are explained with reference to strategic entrepreneurship, that is the Commission’s reluctance to support integrationist initiatives unless they stand a chance of success, and by the fact that partisanship took precedence for the EU executive over the pursuit of integration in some cases. The Commission could yet capitalise on the crisis but its actions in this period call for greater attention by scholars to preference formation by supranational actors as well as a reconsideration of what it means for the EU executive to lead.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): supranational entrepreneurship, global financial crisis, EU economic policy
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Centre for British Political Life
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2013 11:31
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:08
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8607

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