The Governance Turns in EU Studies in Belgium
(2012) Analyzing European Union Politics — ISBN: [978-88-15-14716-5], p. 93-114, published
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- In line with the purpose of the volume, this chapter analyses the focus of Belgian scholars to what constitutes the object of European integration studies. Because of the federal structure of the Belgian state, Belgian scholars seem to have had an almost natural interest in multilevel governance research. In the very beginning most scholars focused on domestic multilevel governance within the Belgian state. However, since the early 1990s, a growing group has been applying those insights to the study of the EU. Moreover, in the past ten years, scholars have broadened their focus to include the global level. Setting the scene, the second part of this chapter looks into the Belgian state structure, which is federal in nature. Building upon the academic literature on governance, the third part suggests that two governance dimensions have been dominating EU studies in Belgium: multilevel and global governance. Supporting the conclusions on the multilevel and global governance turns in Belgian EU studies, the fourth part provides empirical data of the research conducted at Belgian universities in the past two decades. The chapter builds upon data that was gathered by the authors within the framework of the European Network of Excellence CONNEX (Connecting Excellence on European Governance) [Kerremans et al. 2006]. Additional empirical research was done as to evaluate the more recent research activities of Belgian EU scholars.
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Justaert, A., Drieskens, E., Van den Brande, K., & Delreux, T. (2012). The Governance Turns in EU Studies in Belgium. In Bindi F., Eliassen K. (ed.), Analyzing European Union Politics (p. p. 93-114). Società edidrice il Mulino. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/25685