Environmental Politics in the European Union Policy-Making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-Level Governance

by Knill, Christoph; Liefferink, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780719075803
• ISBN10: 0719075807
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies.

Author Biography

Christoph Knill is Professor of Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Duncan Liefferink is Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Sciences of the Environment at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

List of boxes, tables and figures	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction and historical overview: the establishment of environmental policy as a European policy domain	p. 1
Patterns of regulation	p. 27
Central institutions and actors	p. 57
Political processes and decision-making procedures	p. 77
Typical interest constellations and patterns of interaction	p. 102
Making EU environmental policy in practice: three case studies	p. 121
Implementation effectiveness of EU environmental policy	p. 145
Strategies to improve implementation effectiveness: 'new' environmental policy instruments as a panacea?	p. 162
The implementation of EU environmental policy in the UK, France, Germany and Spain	p. 179
Taking stock: the environmental problem-solving capacity of the EU	p. 196
Conclusions	p. 214
References	p. 223
Index	p. 243
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