TY - JOUR
T1 - EU Budgetary Dynamics
T2 - Incremental or Punctuated Equilibrium?
AU - Citi, Manuele
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - In this article I study the long-term evolution of the main categories of expenditure of the European Union (EU) budget (1984-2011). The aim is to assess the extent to which the EU is affected by a structural form of policy inertia, and to investigate the general pattern of policy stability and change in the EU in light of the two models of policy dynamics currently existing in the literature: the incrementalist model and the punctuated equilibrium model. The analysis of long series of original data extracted from the EU budget shows that EU policies do not evolve following an incrementalist pattern, but by a punctuated equilibrium dynamic.
AB - In this article I study the long-term evolution of the main categories of expenditure of the European Union (EU) budget (1984-2011). The aim is to assess the extent to which the EU is affected by a structural form of policy inertia, and to investigate the general pattern of policy stability and change in the EU in light of the two models of policy dynamics currently existing in the literature: the incrementalist model and the punctuated equilibrium model. The analysis of long series of original data extracted from the EU budget shows that EU policies do not evolve following an incrementalist pattern, but by a punctuated equilibrium dynamic.
KW - EU budget
KW - Incrementalism
KW - Policy dynamics
KW - Punctuated equilibrium
U2 - 10.1080/13501763.2012.760333
DO - 10.1080/13501763.2012.760333
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1350-1763
VL - 20
SP - 1157
EP - 1173
JO - Journal of European Public Policy
JF - Journal of European Public Policy
IS - 8
ER -