Moving beyond legal compliance: Innovative approaches to EU multilevel implementation
Thomann, E; Sager, F
Date: 1 August 2017
Journal
Journal of European Public Policy
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publisher DOI
Abstract
Research on implementation in the European Union (EU) is characterized by a strong focus on
legal conformance with EU policy. However, this focus has been criticized for insufficiently
accounting for the implications of the EU’s multilevel governance structure, thus providing an
incomplete picture of EU implementation, its diversity ...
Research on implementation in the European Union (EU) is characterized by a strong focus on
legal conformance with EU policy. However, this focus has been criticized for insufficiently
accounting for the implications of the EU’s multilevel governance structure, thus providing an
incomplete picture of EU implementation, its diversity and practice. The contributions of this
collection represent a shift toward a more performance-oriented perspective on EU
implementation as problem-solving. They approach implementation fundamentally as a
process of interpretation of superordinate law by actors who are embedded within multiple
contexts arising from the coexistence of dynamics of Europeanization, on the one hand, and
what has been termed ‘domestication’, on the other. Moving beyond legal compliance, the
contributions provide new evidence on the diversity of domestic responses to EU policy, the
roles and motivations of actors implementing EU policy, and the ‘black box’ of EU law in action
and its enforcement.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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