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Accountability deficits in European ‘Comitology’ decision-making

Brandsma, Gijs Jan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 05

Comitology committees are often accused of not being accountable. This paper aims to provide building blocks to analyze the validity of this claim. After briefly discussing the meaning and aims of accountability, it is discussed where the actual accountability problems can be expected....

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From ‘talking the talk’ to ‘walking the walk’: Implementing the EU guidelines on employment through the European Social Fund

Sanchez Salgado, Rosa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 06

usages by Europe, and gives a more complete picture of the implementation process. Empirical evidence is drawn from …

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Compliance in the EU enlargement process: The limits of conditionality

Steunenberg, Bernard; Dimitrova, Antoaneta - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 06

In this article we analyze the effectiveness of EU conditionality. Viewing accession negotiations as a bargaining game, we find incentives to defect exist if the final date of accession is known, but conditions for cooperation prevail if the date is not known. Therefore we find that regardless...

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How Europe Matters. Different Mechanisms of Europeanization

Knill, Christoph; Lehmkuhl, Dirk - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 06

While much has been written about the European Union (EU), most of the scholarly work is concerned with the developments at the European level. It is only recently, that we observe increasing attempts to address this research deficit. Notwithstanding a growing number of studies explicitly...

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The power of norms in the transposition of EU directives

Dimitrova, Antoaneta; Rhinard, Mark - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 11

Transposition research provides an excellent opportunity to bring new data to bear on two of the most dominant theoretical approaches to European Union studies: rational choice institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. Yet the goal of comparable testing is hampered by the...

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Change as "Appropriate Adaptation": Administrative Adjustment to European Environmental Policy in Britain and Germany

Knill, Christoph; Lenschow, Andrea - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 04

investigates the conditions under which we see administrative change in the EU member states as a consequence of the implementation … of EU environmental policies. We adopt a comparative research design analyzing the impact of four environmental policies …

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An Alternative Route of Legal Integration: The Community's Railways Policy

Knill, Christoph; Lehmkuhl, Dirk - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 05

documented that with respect to the implementation of European legislation member states tend to do less than they are supposed … to do. On the other hand, it is striking that with respect to the implementation of the Council Directive 91/440 on the … argue that these differing evaluations of implementation success can be traced to different implementation approaches, which …

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Explaining Variations in Implementation of EU Directives

Versluis, Esther - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 11

Uneven implementation of Community law across the European Union is common practice. Differences in implementation of … implementation of the Seveso II and Safety Data Sheets Directives in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain shows …

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The Europeanization of Public Policies Understanding Idiosyncratic Mechanisms and Contingent Results

Töller, Annette Elisabeth - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

implementation of European policies. …

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The Europeanisation of Research and Higher Educational Policies Some Reflections

Trondal, Jarle - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 08

This study poses the following question: To what extent do EU policies affect national policies? In concrete, this article studies the europeanisation of policy in the field of Research and Higher Education (R&E). The field of R&E is largely neglected in the literature on European integration...

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