Responsive technocrats?
Public politicisation of European integration and policy making in the European Commission - with Christian Rauh
What are the policy consequences of the public politicisation of European integration? Christian Rauh will argue that higher levels of public contestation challenge the hitherto often technocratic mode of policy preparation in the European Commission.
This lets Commission actors generate widely dispersed regulatory benefits, particularly where a regulatory initiative is publicly salient at the time of drafting. Politicisation entails both chances and risks for further integration. While it promises enhanced responsiveness to public preferences, it also leads to less efficient decision-making processes.
About Christian Rauh
Christian Rauh is Research Fellow of the unit Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He has studied at the University of Konstanz, worked as an interest representative in Brussels, and obtained a PhD from the FU Berlin. His current research focusses on empirically analysing the politicization of political institutions beyond the nation state in the EU and beyond.
Location
Vrije Universiteit, Metropolitan Building, Z-009.
