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Loosening the Ties that Bind: The Impact of European Integration on French Government and its Relationship to Business
Author(s) -
Schmidt Vivien A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.1996.tb00570.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , flexibility (engineering) , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , european integration , market integration , democracy , european union , political science , market economy , economic system , economics , business , political economy , economy , economic policy , management , law , politics , macroeconomics , philosophy , statistics , linguistics , mathematics , algorithm , computer science
European integration has served to loosen the ties that have traditionally bound French business and government by decreasing the independence of French govenment, which can no longer formulate policy unilaterally, while it has increased that of French business, which now looks as much to Europe as to the nation‐state for policy‐making, and more to the market and one another than the state for financing. European integration has also reduced the flexibility of government at the implementation stage, with the EU regulatory model replacing France's administrative model. The result is an unbalancing of France's traditional ‘statist’ model of policy‐making, and potential problems for French democracy.