TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ollier, Lana
A1  - Metz, Florence
A1  - Nuñez-Jimenez, Alejandro
A1  - Späth, Leonhard
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
T1  - The European 2030 climate and energy package
BT  - do domestic strategy adaptations precede EU policy change?
JF  - Policy sciences
N2  - The European Union’s 2030 climate and energy package introduced fundamental changes compared to its 2020 predecessor. These changes included a stronger focus on the internal market and an increased emphasis on technology-neutral decarbonization while simultaneously de-emphasizing the renewables target. This article investigates whether changes in domestic policy strategies of leading member states in European climate policy preceded the observed changes in EU policy. Disaggregating strategic change into changes in different elements (goals, objectives, instrumental logic), allows us to go beyond analyzing the relative prioritization of different goals, and to analyze how policy requirements for reaching those goals were dynamically redefined over time. To this end, we introduce a new method, which based on insights from social network analysis, enables us to systematically trace those strategic chances. We find that shifts in national strategies of the investigated member states preceded the shift in EU policy. In particular, countries reframed their understanding of supply security, and pushed for the internal electricity market also as a security measure to balance fluctuating renewables. Hence, the increasing focus on markets and market integration in the European 2030 package echoed the increasingly central role of the internal market for electricity supply security in national strategies. These findings also highlight that countries dynamically redefined their goals relative to the different phases of the energy transition.
KW  - climate and energy policy
KW  - policy strategy
KW  - European Union
KW  - decarbonization
KW  - renewable energy
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-022-09447-5
SN  - 0032-2687
SN  - 1573-0891
VL  - 55
IS  - 1
SP  - 161
EP  - 184
PB  - Springer Science+Business Media LLC
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Paasch, Jana
T1  - Revisiting policy preferences and capacities in the EU
BT  - Multi-level policy implementation in the subnational authorities
JF  - Journal of common market studies : JCMS
N2  - Research on multi-level implementation of EU legislation has almost exclusively focused on the national level, while little is known about the role of subnational authorities. Nevertheless, it is a prerequisite for the functioning of the European Union that all member states and their subnational authorities apply and enforce EU legislation in due time. I address this research gap and take a closer look at the legal transposition process in the German regional states. Using a novel data set comprising detailed information on about 700 subnational measures, I show that state-level variables, such as political preferences and ministerial resources, account for variation in the timing of legal transposition and repeatedly lead to subnational delay. To conclude, the paper addresses the role of subnational authorities in the EU multi-level system and points to their interest in shaping legal transposition in order to counterbalance their loss of competences to the national level.
KW  - European Union
KW  - transposition
KW  - EU directives
KW  - implementation measures
KW  - subnational authorities
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13286
SN  - 0021-9886
SN  - 1468-5965
VL  - 60
IS  - 3
SP  - 783
EP  - 800
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -