Interactions in a politicised Europe: a scoping literature review and research agenda on the supranational enforcement of EU law by the European Commission
本文系统梳理了欧盟委员会超国家执行欧盟法律的研究,聚焦于行为体间的互动与理论方法,识别研究空白并提出未来议程,适合关注欧盟治理与法律执行的学者。
Since the 1990s, extensive research has been done on the supranational enforcement of EU law, for good reason; equal application of EU law in member states is crucial to the legitimacy of the Union, the protection of shared interests, and citizens’ rights. Enforcing EU law, primarily a task of the European Commission as ‘guardian of the treaties’, is rife with intra-institutional, inter-institutional, and inter-level interactions. This article presents a scoping literature review of existing studies on the supranational enforcement of EU law, focussing on the actors involved, the interactions between them, and the theoretical approaches used. We identify which interactions remain understudied and shed light on the theoretical emphases in the literature. Finally, we present a research agenda that can inform research into how preferences and understandings concerning enforcement are shaped and changed through interactions of complex actors within and between institutions, thus expanding the theoretical scope of analyses of EU enforcement.