This introduction offers a common analytical framework for the papers in the special issue that explore the economic and political crises of the EU from the perspective of the governance problems of market integration. These crises, we argue, can all be linked to the deficiencies in the management of the developmental consequences of market integration among economies at different levels of development. The deeper is economic integration and the more diverse are the starting endowments of participating actors, the less predictable are the developmental effects of integration, and the larger is the need for mechanisms that could help to anticipate and manage them in time. While economic integration offers new developmental opportunities for the less developed economies, the capacities of both national and supranational public actors to manage the developmental problems in Europe are inadequate. Weak EU capacities to get in sync the requirements of deepening economic integration and to manage its developmental consequences, we argue, can be attributed to the asymmetry of the European polity, where policymakers whose primary accountability lies at the national level govern the transnational market. Actors in charge of governing the common market have strong incentives to externalize the developmental consequences of integration, and they have limited room for making the common market a common good.

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管理市场整合与发展——欧洲东部和南部周边的教训：特刊简介

本介绍为特刊中从市场一体化治理问题的角度探讨欧盟经济和政治危机的论文提供了一个共同的分析框架。我们认为，这些危机都可能与不同发展水平的经济体之间市场一体化的发展后果管理方面的缺陷有关。经济一体化越深入，参与方的起始禀赋越多样化，一体化的发展影响就越难以预测，对有助于及时预测和管理这些影响的机制的需求就越大。虽然经济一体化为欠发达经济体提供了新的发展机会，国家和超国家公共行为者管理欧洲发展问题的能力不足。我们认为，欧盟在同步深化经济一体化的要求和管理其发展后果方面的能力薄弱，可归因于欧洲政体的不对称性，其主要责任在于国家层面的决策者管理跨国市场。负责管理共同市场的行为者有强烈的动机将一体化的发展后果外部化，他们将共同市场变成共同利益的空间有限。可以归因于欧洲政体的不对称性，其主要责任在于国家层面的决策者管理跨国市场。负责管理共同市场的行为者有强烈的动机将一体化的发展后果外部化，他们将共同市场变成共同利益的空间有限。可以归因于欧洲政体的不对称性，其主要责任在于国家层面的决策者管理跨国市场。负责管理共同市场的行为者有强烈的动机将一体化的发展后果外部化，他们将共同市场变成共同利益的空间有限。