Europe and the recomposition of national forums

Bruno Jobert (1)

1 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales

The impact of Europe on national policy-making must take into account the differentiation of the state which is analysed here as a complex strucuture of forums and arenas regulating segmented domains of public action. The unequal Europeanization of public policies, the resulting insulation, of monetary and financial policies, and the prevalence of intergovernmental negotiation, are generally congruent with a neo-liberal référentiel advocating a depoliticization of public regulation. The open mode of c-ordination, in its present forms, does not counterbalance the decline of the public debate induced by this reordering of the policy forums.

Mots clés: Forums; Ideas; Policy frames; State differentiation

Bruno Jobert. Europe and the recomposition of national forums: The French case. Journal of European Public Policy, 2003, 10, pp.463-477. ⟨halshs-00290970⟩