Enlighten Project

In this section, you will find all products resulting of the coordinated publication effort of our research teams on the three main research topics of the project.

Scientific Publications

Legitimacy of European Modes of Governance (WP1)

• How the Commission Fills in the Blanks of the European Semester, by Pierre Vanheuverzwijn
• How have EU ‘Fire-fighters’ Sought to Douse the Flames of the Eurozone’s Fast- and Slow-Burning crises? The 2013 Structural Funds Reform, by Ramona Coman
• ‘Power through, over and in ideas’, by Carstensen and Schmidt. 
• Why and how do think tanks expand their networks in times of crisis? The case of Bruegel and the Centre for European Policy Studies, by Ramona Coman (ULB) 
• Europe’s fast- and slow-burning crises, by Seabrooke and Tsingou (CBS)

 Banking Crisis and Financial Sustainability (WP2)

• Grey matter in shadow banking international organizations and expert strategies in global financial governance, by Cornel Ban, Leonard Seabrooke & Sarah Freitas
• Making sense of austerity, by Leonard Seabrooke and Rune Riisbjerg Thomsen
• Powering ideas through Expertise, by Leonard Seabrooke & Duncan Wigan
• The Finance Curse_Britain and the World Economy, by John Christensen, Nick Shaxson and Duncan Wigan
• The regulator’s conundrum. How financial reflexivity feeds arm’s‐length regulation, by Bart Stellinga and Daniel Mügge

Deficit Reduction and Continuity of Public Services (WP3)

• What ‘Brussels’ Means by Structural Reforms: A Constructive or Destructive Ambiguity?, by Amandine Crespy and Pierre Vanheuverzwijn
• Welfare Markets in Europe. The Democratic Challenge of European Integration, by Amandine Crespy

Youth Employment Crisis and Inclusive Growth (WP4)

• Making sense of austerity: Everyday narratives in Denmark and the United Kingdom, by Leonard Seabrooke and Rune Riisbjerg Thomsen
• Job search strategies and labour market outcomes of young recent migrants from
  Central & Eastern Europe in EU15 member states, by Janine Leschke and Silvana Weiss
• The European Politics of Brain Drain: A Fast or Slow-Burning Crisis, by Jacob A. Hasselbalch
• A Policy Effectiveness Gap for European Unemployment: The uneven effects of unemployment benefits and active labor market policies on European natives and migrants, by Joep Schaper and Brian Burgoon

Think Pieces

Legitimacy of European Modes of Governance (WP1)

• [Institutional change] Power, ideas and networks. Epistemic power over ideas after a fast-burning crisis – the case of the ecology of Brussels-based think tanks, by Ramona Coman and Frederik Ponjaert
• [Modes of governance] From one European Semester to the next. Specificities and Adjustments Shaping the Underlying Legitimacy Mechanisms, by Ramona Coman and Frederik Ponjaert
• [Theories of Legitimacy] How to Theorize Democratic Legitimacy in the Eurozone Crisis, by Vivien A. Schmidt

Banking Crisis and Financial Sustainability (WP2)

• Finance curse, by Tax Justice Network 

Deficit Reduction and Continuity of Public Services (WP3)

• Think piece on the comparative framework guiding the work of WP 3, by Imre Szabo, Dorothee Bohle and Amandine Crespy.
• Housing and Health in Fast- and Slow-Burning Crises, by Imre Szabo, Dorothee Bohle, Amandine Crespy, and Leonard Seabrooke.

Youth Employment Crisis and Inclusive Growth (WP4)

• Think Piece on The state of the Open Method of Coordination in Employment Policy 
• The European Politics of Brain Drain: A Fast or Slow-Burning Crisis,? by Jacob A. Hasselbalch

Working papers

Legitimacy of European Modes of Governance (WP1)

• Joint publication of 3 working papers on: 
  • The ‘new’ EU governance: ‘new’ intergovernmentalism versus ‘new’ supranationalism plus ‘new’ parliamentarism (Vivien A. Schmidt)
  • From one Semester to the next: towards the hybridization of new modes of governance in EU policy (Ramona Coman & Frederik Ponjaert)
  • What ‘Brussels’ means by structural reforms (Amandine Crespy & Pierre Vanheuverzwijn)
  • Power and changing modes of governance in the euro crisis, by Martin B. Carstensen and Vivien A. Schmidt

Banking Crisis and Financial Sustainability (WP2)

Deficit Reduction and Continuity of Public Services (WP3)

• From housing as asset to housing as patrimony: policy ideas and the re-emergence of the housing question, by Dorothee Bohle and Leonard Seabrooke
• Healthcare reforms in times of crisis. From responsibility vs responsiveness to legitimacy and conflict avoidance, by Amandine Crespy and Imre Szabo

Youth Employment Crisis and Inclusive Growth (WP4)

• Job search strategies and labour market outcomes of young recent migrants from Central & Eastern Europe in EU15 member states, by Janine Leschke and Silvana Weiss
• Resilient Neoliberalism? Coping with Housing Booms and Busts on Europe’s
  Periphery, by Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits

Volumes

Common edited volume on ‘Governing Europe through Hard Times’