Revisiting policy preferences and capacities in the EU
- 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.
Author details: | Jana PaaschORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13286 |
ISSN: | 0021-9886 |
ISSN: | 1468-5965 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of common market studies : JCMS |
Subtitle (English): | Multi-level policy implementation in the subnational authorities |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/12/08 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2022/11/07 |
Tag: | EU directives; European Union; implementation measures; subnational authorities; transposition |
Volume: | 60 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 18 |
First page: | 783 |
Last Page: | 800 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [STE 2353/1-1] |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |