Europeanization and Institutional Change in Vocational Education and Training in Austria and Germany
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Trampusch, Christine
署名单位：
University of Bern
刊物名称：
GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0952-1895
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01444.x
发表日期：
2009
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摘要：
This article analyzes how the EU's vocational education and training (VET) policy is reflected in domestic reforms in Germany and Austria. It perceives Europeanization as a heuristic concept to disentangle a twofold process of institutional change: The first process, the Europeanized arena of change, concerns change initiated by the reactions of domestic actors to EU initiatives; the second process of change-the domestic arena of change-concerns the ongoing incremental endogenous change in domestic institutions beneath and independent from the Europeanized arena of institutional change. This procedure allows us to differentiate between two modes of Europeanization: In Germany, Europeanization occurs as reform policies and politics; in Austria, Europeanization occurs more as institutional change by default, hence without strategically enacted reform initiatives shaped by the EU and as domestic institutional change that occurs anyway. The article combines the case-oriented method of difference with process tracing.