EU Environmental Policies in Subnational Regions: The Case of Scotland and Bavaria

EU Environmental Policies in Subnational Regions: The Case of Scotland and Bavaria
ISBN-10
1351787977
ISBN-13
9781351787970
Category
Political Science
Pages
259
Language
English
Published
2017-10-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Antje C.K. Brown

Description

This title was first published in 2001: Despite the fact that environmental directives are one of the strongest areas of policy decreed by the EU, it has a much poorer record when it comes to actual implementation of these policies. Instead of focusing on the traditional state-centrist accounts, this book compares two subnational regions within the EU, Scotland and Bavaria, and their role in the policy process. The author offers a multi-layered implementation map which highlights three main government ’layers’ involved in the filtering process and identifies various formal and informal determinants which shape EU environmental policies during the process. The book not only compares implementation performances between the two regions and their respective states, but also compares the region’s processes against the national processes, thereby exposing determinants that would otherwise remain undetected. In doing so, it confirms that subnational regions feature determinants which differ in many respects from national determinants and influence the effectiveness of EU environmental policies. The book contributes to a better understanding of the implementation deficit and presents a more refined picture of the EU environmental policy ’reality’.

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