Why there is no 'southern problem'. On environmental leaders and laggards in the European Union
By Tanja A. Börzel. 2000
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Non-compliance with EU (environmental) law is often considered to be a 'southern problem'. Because of specific features of their political systems, the four southern European member states are believed to lack the capacity for effectively implementing EU policies. In contrast, I argue in this article that, first, there is significant variation in compliance with EU environmental laws across the European member states which cannot be accommodated by a simple north-south divide. Second, the comparative study of the implementation of five different EU environmental policies in Spain and Germany shows that compliance may vary across different policies within one country. The article puts forward a model which allows us to explain variation across both member states and policies. It is argued that non-compliance is most likely if an EU policy causes a significant 'policy misfit' and if there is no mobilization of domestic actors pressurizing public authorities to bear the costs of implementing the 'misfitting'...
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change (2000, background): “European policies can challenge national policy goals, regulatory standards, the instruments or techniques used to achieve policy goals, and/or the underlying problem-solving approach (Héritier, Knill, and Mingers 1996; Börzel 2000c).”
- Conceptualizing the Domestic Impact of Europe (2009, background): “European policies can challenge national policy goals, regulatory standards, the instruments or techniques used to achieve policy goals, and/or the underlying problem-solving approach (Héritier et al. 1996; Börzel 2000).”
- Leaders and laggards in environmental policy: a quantitative analysis of domestic policy outputs (2009, background): “This may also help to explain why reputed environmental leaders such as Germany or the Netherlands sometimes have severe problems implementing (other) international and EU obligations (cf. Börzel 2000; Knill and Lenschow 2000; Knill 2001; Jordan and Liefferink 2004).”