Apart from facilitating the work of the group as a whole by organising meetings, interactions and external communication, the coordination project has two substantive tasks.
The first is to support the work on a competence-control theory of European integration. Work on theory-building will happen in close collaboration with the substantive projects in order to account for empirical trends and variance. For instance, if the group finds systematic differences in the competence-control tradeoffs between rules and resources, why is this the case? What explains potential differences between the competence-control tradeoffs in policy-making and in implementation? What explains the patterns of competence-control tradeoffs at a given point in time or their evolution over time into a competence-oriented, control-oriented or balanced pattern?
The second is to coordinate and orchestrate the creation of a dataset on the EU’s resources which draws on the results of the projects focussing mainly on resources. The goal is to create a theoretically meaningful, empirically interesting and truly common dataset for the wider scientific community. The project will also work on a common theoretical understanding of the type of resources included into the dataset.