TY  - JOUR
A1  - Daviter, Falk
T1  - The framing of EU policies
JF  - Handbook of European Policies Interpretive Approaches to the EU
N2  - This chapter discusses how framing analysis can contribute to studies of policy making in the European Union (EU). Framing analysis is understood as an analytical perspective that focuses on how policy problems are constructed and categorised. This analytical perspective allows researchers to reconstruct how shifting problem frames empower competing constituencies and create changing patterns of political participation at the supranational level. Studies that assume a longitudinal perspective on EU policy development show how the framing of EU policy is constitutive of the way in which the jurisdictional boundaries and constitutional mandates of the EU evolve over time. Reviewing the growing body of empirical studies on EU policy framing in the context of the diverse theoretical origins of framing analysis, the chapter argues that framing research which takes seriously the notion that policy-making involves both puzzling and powering allows this analytical perspective to contribute a unique perspective on EU policy making.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-78471-936-4
SN  - 978-1-78471-935-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501760701314474
SP  - 91
EP  - 112
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY  - Cheltenham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Daviter, Falk
T1  - An information processing perspective on decision making in the European  Union
JF  - Public administration
N2  - Two decades after the introduction of the punctuated equilibrium model, information processing theory now offers one of the most comprehensive analytical perspectives on decision making in public administration and policy research. This article applies information processing analysis to the decision making process in the European Union (EU). Towards this end, the article inquires into the organizational foundations of information processing at successive levels of administrative and legislative decision making and shows how this analytical perspective can be used to gain a better understanding of policy dynamics at the supranational level. The article argues that information processing in the EU is likely to produce distinct policy dynamics in key respects. It identifies promising avenues for future research and discusses some of the issues this evolving theoretical framework should address in order to allow for a more comprehensive exploration of this analytical perspective in the context of the EU.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12071
SN  - 0033-3298
SN  - 1467-9299
VL  - 92
IS  - 2
SP  - 324
EP  - 339
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -