Why does EU governance change?

Abstract

The European project is about integration and the question why, when and how things happen. Sebastian Salch looks at these big questions and enriches the debate with the help of public good studies, the distribution conflict and economic theories. He sets the theory framework with public goods studies take a look at the distribution conflict. Game theory casts light to the different sets of interest and shows possible solutions. The timing and direction of this solution can be answered with endogenous efforts and external shocks. This new framework is tested with the two big European crisis: the Empty Chair crisis, and the European Debt crisis. The case shows between enhanced competences and governance change. However, the evidence of causality depends on the explanatory model one chooses.