转型视角下的欧洲联盟治理

European Union Governance in the View of Transformation

关注欧洲治理的转型使我们面临困惑,虽然各成员国主权与管理权力的转让日渐增加。但根据国家意愿来制定政策这一原则依然显示出无限的活力。在欧洲决策中,私人利益与公共利益之间的天平似乎已向前者倾斜而对后者不利,但正是欧洲政体的特殊性质使得公共行为体得以继续存在。为了更好地理解欧洲治理的转型,采取不同的研究方法可能会有所助益。这不是指政府不同层级或不同种类的利益行为体之间权力关系的改变,而是指治理实践的变化和对治理内涵的理解。

Looking at the transformation of governance confronts us with a puzzle, Member states have accepted an incremental transfer of sovereignty and regulatory power. Empirical evidence, however, gives proof of a rather unrestricted vitality to shape policies according to national preferences. In European policy- making the balance between private and public interests seems to have shifted to the detriment of the latter. At the same time the very properties of the European polity enable public actors to escape capture. In order to gain a better understanding of the transformation of governance it might be helpful to take a different approach. It is not the change in terms of shifting power relations between different levels of government or between different categories of actors which is of interest, but changes in the practice of governing and the understanding of what governance is about.