Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the EU (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

✍ Scribed by John A. Scherpereel (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the effects of personnel turnover in European Union institutions. Individuals enter and exit EU institutions with remarkable frequency, and questions involving institutional personnel lie at the heart of populist and feminist critiques of the EU. Are these critiques accurate? How do personnel dynamics affect the EU’s legitimacy? Will changing patterns of turnover help to redeem the EU? Personnel Turnover addresses these issues by considering turnover’s effects on three aspects of legitimacy (input, throughput, and output). Authors use a common framework to explore various questions: Does turnover affect the ways that EU citizens see the EU or the likelihood that citizens will participate in EU elections? Does turnover affect the efficiency of the EU decision-making or the EU’s ability to promote its interests abroad? In tackling these contemporary subjects, the authors throw light on a classical question―what difference does it make when political leaders are replaced?

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I Introduction
1 Personnel Turnover and the Legitimacy of the European Union
Theorizing EU Legitimacy
The Promise and Perils of Turnover in EU Institutions
The Populist Critique of EU Politics
The Feminist Critique of EU Politics
Academic Propositions on Turnover and Legitimacy in the EU
Conceptualizing Personnel Turnover in the European Union
Turnover in EU Institutions
Perspectives on Turnover’s Effects
References
Part II Turnover and Input Legitimacy
2 Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament
EP Elections, Citizen Views, and Personnel Turnover
The Effect of MEP Turnover on Citizen Support
Theory and Hypotheses
Alternative Explanations
Research Design and Analysis
Discussion and Conclusions
References
3 Turnover, Turnout, and Input Legitimacy in the EU
Personnel Turnover and Voter Turnout
Data and Research Design
Institutions
Position Within the EU
Domestic Political Factors
Results
Conclusions and Future Research Trajectories
References
Part III Turnover and Throughput Legitimacy
4 Personnel Turnover and Legislative Efficiency in the EU
Personnel Turnover: A Brake on the Efficiency of the EU’s Legislative Process?
Data and Methods
Results
Conclusions and Future Research
References
5 Losing Women, Losing Power? Gender, Turnover, and EU Legislation
Women as Lawmakers
Women as Ministers
Women and Turnover
Women in the Council of Ministers
Women and Turnover in the Council: Empirical Design
Results
Conclusions and Future Research
References
6 The Importance of Expertise: Political Careers, Personnel Turnover, and Throughput Legitimacy in the European Parliament
Pathways to Power and Policy Making in the EP
Linking Personnel Turnover to Institutional Performance
Theoretical Framework
Expectations4
Research Strategy
Operationalization
Data Basis and Coverage
Empirical Analysis
Institutional Experience Proposition
Incumbency Proposition
Longer Experience Proposition
National Experience Proposition
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Part IV Turnover and Output Legitimacy
7 Making a Hasty Brexit? Turnover and Brexit Negotiations
Anticipating the Brexit Negotiations
Personnel Turnover and Its Effects
Personnel Turnover and Brexit Negotiations
The EU Side: Personnel Continuity and Inter-Institutional Coordination
The UK Side: Personnel Turnover and Inter-Institutional Discord
The Brexiters Exit
Even Remainers Leave
Location Matters
A Government in Disarray
Conclusions and Implications: Brexit, Turnover, and Output Legitimacy
References
8 Turnover, Conditionality, and Europeanization in the Western Balkans
Democracy and Governance Outcomes in the Western Balkans
Europeanization, Domestic Politics, and Personnel Turnover
Personnel Turnover and EU Leverage
Turnover and Leverage in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Police Reform and a Stabilization and Association Agreement
Constitutional Reform and the Sejdić-Finci Case
Conclusions
References
Part V Conclusion
9 Turnover, Legitimacy, and the EU Timescape
The Effects of Personnel Turnover on the Legitimacy of the EU
Turnover, Populism, and Feminism
Institutions, Turnover, and the EU Timescape
Future Research on Turnover, Legitimacy, and the EU Timescape
References
Index