Post-accession politicization of national EU policy coordination : the case of Slovenia

Fink-Hafner, Danica (author)

This article focuses on how domestic and EU-level political factors affect the functional aspect of the national coordination of EU affairs. Due to the idiosyncrasies of the post-communist countries which have joined the EU since 2004, an analysis of dynamic changes in the national systems of coordination needs to focus on three factors: (a) functional pressures from the EU; (b) the consolidation of the national party system; and (c) existing traditions of politico-administrative relations. The international economic and financial crisis is considered as a fourth factor that has affected the first three factors through the increase in the EUʼs ʼinformal intergovernmentalismʼ, which adds to the politicization of EU matters. The Slovenian case points to an increased, though selective, politicization of EU business due to both national- and EU-level factors.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Evropska unija, javna politika, analiza politik, koordinacija, Slovenija
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2014
• Number of pages: Str. 39-54
• Numbering: Vol. 92, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-83260
• UDC: 32:303.7(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12035
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32114781
• Publication date in RUL: 17.08.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Public administration
• Shortened title: Public adm.
• Publisher: Royal Institute of Public Administration
• ISSN: 0033-3298
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5306634

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Keywords: European Union, public policy, policy analysis, coordination, Slovenia