By Andrew Jordan
The continued improvement of the eu Union (EU) is reworking coverage and politics in its member international locations, and doubtless in an excellent better variety of strength contributors. This ebook bargains an in depth research of the Europeanization of nationwide environmental coverage in ten western ecu nations when you consider that 1970.
By mixing state of the art theories with clean empirical fabric at the many manifestations of Europeanization, it sheds new gentle at the dynamics which are decisively reshaping nationwide environmental coverage. It additionally bargains an unique review of the way a long way Europeanization has produced better coverage convergence in western Europe.
Throughout, the procedure taken is certainly comparative, drawing at the insights supplied by way of top nation experts.
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And Ziller, J. (eds) (1988) Making European Policies Work, London: Sage. Wallace, H. (2000) ‘Europeanization and globalization’, New Political Economy, 5:3, 369–82. , Porter M. and Flynn, B. (2000) Environmental Governance in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wessels, W, Maurer, A. and Mittag, J. (eds) (2003) Fifteen into One? The European Union and Its Member States, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2 Europeanization and policy convergence A basis for comparative analysis Duncan Liefferink and Andrew Jordan Introduction In the previous chapter we outlined the two main aims of this book, which are: (1) to document empirically the Europeanization of ten national environmental policies in the period 1970–2000; and (2) to assess the extent to which Europeanization is causing these ten national policies to converge.
It must be kept in mind, however, that the EU did not start with a blank canvas. Fifteen different fabrics of national politics and policies were already in place when their respective governments decided to enter the EU. Institutional theories (broadly defined) tell us that the EU may be able to alter some aspects of national policy, but it cannot take away these different fabrics altogether and replace them with one single European ‘model’. e. no change) nor deep convergence, two obvious questions to ask are precisely which aspects of national policy are indeed changing and how far are they actually converging?
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