文档介绍：Paper to be presented at
European Union Center of Excellence and School of Education,
University of Wisconsin
Friday 13th October 2006.
The Open Method of Coordination in European Education and Research Policy: Animating a Label * A previous version of this paper has been presented at the Connex RG 1 Conference, Vienna 11-15 May 2006
Åse Gornitzka
Arena – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
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Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the micro processes involved in the institutionalisation of European political space of a particular kind – the arenas that carry the Open Method of Coordination label. When the Lisbon Council launched the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) it was foreseen as a new form of collective action. From the perspective of the study of anisation, the introduction of OMC can also be seen as an instance of innovation that brought a new template anising political space to the EU. This paper examines how anisational template was handled in the context of two policy sectors, education and research, and how actors at the level of the European Union in these sectors operationalised the concept of OMC by providing it with anisational and procedural content. The paper interprets these processes as diffusion and potential institutionalisation of anisational innovation and seeks to identify the forces that shaped the inception of the OMC as practices and the dynamics that subsequently maintained, changed and moulded them. In particular an account is given of the way in which the spread and evolution of OMC as practice are affected by existing institutional arrangements.
1 Introduction
This paper presents an analysis of the micro processes involved in the institutionalisation of European political space of a particular kind – the arenas that carry the Open Method of Coordination label. When the Lisbon Council launched the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) it was foreseen as a new form of collective action.