@article{MeyerSahlingGoetz2012,
  author    = {Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik and Goetz, Klaus Hermann},
  title     = {The EU timescape : from notion to research agenda},
  isbn      = {978-0- 415-69633-3},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Goetz2011,
  author    = {Goetz, Klaus Hermann},
  title     = {The development and current features of the German civil service system},
  isbn      = {978-1-84844243-6},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GoetzMeyerSahling2012,
  author    = {Goetz, Klaus Hermann and Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik},
  title     = {Political time in the EU: dimensions, perspectives, theories},
  isbn      = {978-0- 415-69633-3},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GoetzMeyerSahling2009,
  author    = {Goetz, Klaus Hermann and Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik},
  title     = {Political time in the EU : dimensions, perspectives, theories},
  issn      = {1350-1763},
  doi       = {10.1080/13501760802589198},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {The manner in which time is institutionalized is critical to how a political system works. Terms, time budgets and time horizons of collective and individual political actors; rights over timing, sequencing and speed in decision- making; and the temporal properties of policy matter to the distribution of power; efficiency and effectiveness of policy-making; and democratic legitimacy. This article makes a case for the systematic study of political time in the European Union (EU) - both as an independent and a dependent variable - and highlights the analytical value-added of a time-centred analysis. The article discusses previous scholarship on the institutionalization of political time and its consequences along the dimensions of polity, politics and policy; and then reviews dominant perspectives on political time, which centre on power, system performance and legitimacy. These perspectives tie in with diverse theoretical traditions in the study of the EU. Taken together, dimensions, perspectives and theories help to guide time-centred analyses of the EU political system.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Goetz2012,
  author    = {Goetz, Klaus Hermann},
  title     = {How does the EU tick? Five propositions on political time},
  isbn      = {978-0- 415-69633-3},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Goetz2014,
  author    = {Goetz, Klaus Hermann},
  title     = {A question of time: responsive and responsible democratic politics},
  series = {West European politics},
  volume    = {37},
  journal   = {West European politics},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {0140-2382},
  doi       = {10.1080/01402382.2014.887880},
  pages     = {379 -- 399},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Since 2008, European crisis politics have thrown the importance of time in democracy into sharp relief. The need for rapid action by national authorities, the EU and international organisations conflicts with the time-consuming nature of democratic deliberation; short-term political firefighting has given little consideration to the long-term sustainability and time consistency of policies; and decentralised decisions threaten effective synchronisation within multi-level governance systems. This article suggests that democratic politics requires a balance between the temporal characteristics of responsive and responsible politics. The timeframe for responsive politics is shaped by electoral cycles that encourage speedy action; short-term lags between political choices and their effects; and temporal discretion of decision-makers. The timeframe for responsible politics is characterised by time-consuming procedures; solutions that take time to unfold and are sustainable in the longer term; and the purposive synchronisation amongst actors and across policy domains and levels of policy-making. The finely balanced temporal constitution of democracy has been challenged in two fundamental ways. First, as the ability of decision-makers to work within the time limits of their mandates and to respond to the temporal expectations of the electorate decreases, the temporal ties that ensure the responsiveness of political authority to the electorate weaken. Second, the distinct temporal qualities of majoritarian and non-majoritarian institutions that encourage responsibility are called into question. Consequently, political time in Europe runs the risk of becoming both less responsive and less responsible.},
  language  = {en}
}