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  -