EU Air Transport Regulation – Multiple Streams Approach

• In Event: Poster Session: European Politics and Society & Presidents and Executive Politics
  In Poster Session: Poster Session: European Politics and Society

Abstract

The paper seeks to move beyond traditional explanations of the relatively limited impact of European model of integration on air transport as important part of European and global economy, and proposes an alternative framework of analysis, where external pressures and models are compared with more demanding expectations on the market side. Secondly, it claims that lack of economic incentives on the EU side is not necessarily a decisive stumbling block for fostering air transport regulation, but greater emphasis should be put on the political side of this process, analysed from the perspective of multiple streams analysis (MSA). Existing literature on MSA often overlooks the vast political projects, where economic benefits might come in the longer term, and are secondary to some other purposes as political unity or regional identity. The shape and scope of the very idea of air transport have been conditioned by EU internal variables , which has more importance for model’s recipients than economic forces. Last and finally, the proposed paper advances the idea of the EU as security and safety provider, where regulations adopted on the EU level are of crucial importance for global market.

Author

• Dominika Furtak, Jagiellonian University