Publications - MPIfG

European Decision-Making and the “Social
Dialogue”
Gerda Falkner
In several EU policy areas, there is now close cooperation between
labor, business associations and political institutions.
For social policy, the 1992 Maastricht Treaty formally established
a corporatist decision pattern. The latter’s practical
development and its specific characteristics compared to
national “social partnerships” are the focus of this project
which builds on the habilitation thesis “Towards a Corporatist
Policy Community: EU Social Policy in the 1990s.” Theoretical
as well as practical aspects of social dialogues in the
European multilevel system will be studied. Conceptually, the
project attempts to combine theories on corporatism and
policy networks. Characteristics of “network governance” as
described in the literature are confronted with practical experiences,
notably from EU social policy. Structural adaptations
within the major interest groups of the social dialogue are
also of interest, as are the specific interaction patterns between
them. Finally, the impact of European integration on
national styles of interest intermediation will be assessed.
Project duration: October 1998 to October 2000.
Gerda Falkner
EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Towards a Corporatist Policy
Community. (European Public Policy Series.) London: Routledge,
1998
Gerda Falkner, Wolfgang C. Müller (eds.)
Österreich im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Konsequenzen
der EU-Mitgliedschaft für Politiknetzwerke und Entscheidungsprozesse.
Vienna: Signum, 1998, 250 pp.
Gerda Falkner
The Council or the Social Partners? EC Social Policy Between
Diplomacy and Collective Bargaining. Journal of European
Public Policy, Vol. 7, No. 5, 705–724 (2000)
Gerda Falkner
How Pervasive are Euro-Politics? Effects of EU Membership
on a New Member State. Journal of Common Market Studies,
Vol. 38, No. 2, 223–250 (2000)
Gerda Falkner
Policy Networks in a Multilevel System: Converging Towards
Moderate Diversity? West European Politics, Vol. 23, No. 4,
94–120 (2000)
Gerda Falkner
Rappresentanza degli interessi e politiche pubbliche nell’
Unione Europea. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Vol. 30,
No. 1, 3–41 (2000)
Gerda Falkner
The Institutional Framework of Labour Relations at the EUlevel:
Provisions and Historical Background. In: Reiner Hoffmann
et al. (eds.), Transnational Industrial Relations in Europe.
Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2000, 11–28
Gerda Falkner
European Social Policy: Towards Multi-level and Multi-actor
Governance. In: Beate Kohler-Koch, Rainer Eising (eds.), The
Transformation of Governance in the European Union. London:
Routledge, 1999, 83–97
Gerda Falkner
Corporatist Governance and Europeanisation: No Future in
the Multi-level Game? Current Politics and Economics of
Europe, Vol. 8, No. 4, 387–412 (1999)
Gerda Falkner
Korporatismus auf österreichischer und europäischer Ebene:
Verflechtung ohne Osmose? In: Ferdinand Karlhofer, Emmerich
Tálos (eds.), Sozialpartnerschaft: Wandel und Reformfähigkeit.
Vienna: Signum, 1999, 215–240
Austria in the European Multilevel System
Gerda Falkner and Wolfgang C. Müller (University of Vienna)
The project participant at the MPIfG began work on this
project at the University of Vienna in 1996 and completed the
research at the MPIfG in 1999.
Gerda Falkner
How Pervasive are Euro-Politics? Effects of EU Membership on
a New Member State. MPIfG Discussion Paper 99/4. Cologne:
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 1999, 33 pp.
Gerda Falkner and Wolfgang C. Müller (eds.)
Österreich im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Konsequenzen
der EU-Mitgliedschaft für Politiknetzwerke und Entscheidungsprozesse.
Vienna: Signum, 1998, 250 pp.
Gerda Falkner, Wolfgang C. Müller, Martina Eder, Karin Hiller,
Gerhard Steiner, Rita Trattnigg
The Impact of EU Membership on Policy Networks in Austria:
Creeping Change Beneath the Surface. Journal of European
Public Policy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 496–516 (1999)
The Differential Impact of EU Judicial Politics
in the Field of Social Policy
Sabrina Tesoka
Project Areas and Research Projects
The judicial activism of the European Court of Justice (ECJ)
is transforming the Community legal order in a supranational
direction. The ECJ has constitutionalized European law and
expanded European authority in various policy areas. The
influence of the ECJ has also been decisive in changing the
position of the judiciary in the member-states. National
judges are now responsible for the application, and therefore
re-interpretation, of Community social law in the member-
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