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Acting Like a Jolly Joker or Increasing Democratic Legitimacy? The Role and Influence of European Semester Officers

The intention of this paper was to shed new light on the throughput legitimacy of the European Semester. The focus was on the European Semester officers – Commission staff with expertise in economic policy which were deployed to Representations of the Commission to Member States. This is the first, exploratory attempt to theorize and empirically study ESOs. Using a sender-receiver model, two potential pathways for the increased throughput legitimacy via ESOs were identified. One was top-down in which ESOs are supposed to transmit and communicate Semester throughputs to national stakeholders to demonstrate accountability. The other was bottom-up in which ESOs facilitate stakeholder participation in the preparatory stages of the Semester throughput so to enhance the inclusiveness and create ownership.

European semester ; ESOs ; economic governance ; European Commission

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