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A critical assessment of Jennifer R. Wozniak Boyle´s “Conditional Leadership”

Including a comment upon the “AER Study on Regional Policy 2014+”
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Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares
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A Critical Assessment of Jennifer R. Wozniak
Boyle´s "Conditional Leadership"
Including a comment upon the "AER Study on Regional
Policy 2014+"
The Hague University
HEBO ­ School for European Studies
Course: European Regional Policy
Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares (exchange student)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1
2. Outline of the book
1
3. Theoretical background
2
3.1 Intergovernmentalism
2
3.2 Supranational Institutionalism
3
4. Empirical methodology
3
5. Results
4
6. Critical assessment
5
7. Comment upon the AER study
5
8. Conclusion
6
Bibliography
7
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1. Introduction
In this essay I try to make a brief critical summary of Jennifer R. Wozniak Boyle´s book
"Conditional Leadership ­ The European Commission and the European Regional Policy" and
to use its theoretical framework to comment upon the "AER Study on Regional Policy
2014+"
1
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In the first part I´m going to describe the outline of Wozniak Boyle´s book and explain the
two contemporary models of European integration: Intergovernmentalism and
Supranational Institutionalism. Then I continue with describing the way how Wozniak Boyle
tries to determine the influence of the Commission in European regional policy and
summarize her results. In the end I´m going to critically assess the book and try use its
theoretical framework, if possible, to comment upon the AER Study. The essay ends with a
conclusion.
2. Outline of the book
In her book "Conditional Leadership" Wozniak Boyle (2006) tries to determine the role of the
Commission in European integration. She is unsatisfied with the current research level in this
field and tries to combine the two theoretical approaches generally competing to explain
integration processes: Intergovernmentalism and Supranational Institutionalism (p. 8, 21).
Wozniak Boyle (2006) analyzes the European regional policy since the establishment of the
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the 1970s to measure the degree of
influence the Commission had and has in this important field of European integration and to
assess which of the two competing theories fit better to explain integration (pp. 15, 29). She
chose regional policy for her study because it "provides an excellent case for probing the
Commission´s role in European integration" (Wozniak Boyle, 2006, p. 15) from her point of
view. In this area a substantial part of the EU budget is spent and it touches the important
issue of unemployment. Those two characteristics make influence in this field desirable for
many parties and power balances will probably show up (Wozniak Boyle, 2006, pp. 15, 16).
To achieve this goal Wozniak Boyle (2006) focuses on the processes behind the creation of
the ERDF and the preceding reforms of it or regional policy until 1999. She analyzes those
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AER is an acronym of Assembly of European Regions.
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Title:
A critical assessment of Jennifer R. Wozniak Boyle´s “Conditional Leadership”
Subtitle:
Including a comment upon the “AER Study on Regional Policy 2014+”
Event:
European Regional Policy
Author:
Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares
Year:
2008
Pages:
10
Archive No.:
V117733
ISBN (eBook):
978-3-640-20087-0
ISBN (Book):
978-3-640-21855-4
DOI:
10.3239/9783640200870
File size:
178 KB
Language:
English

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