Eva Thomann - Innovative Approaches to Eu Multilevel Implementation: Moving Beyond Legal Compliance

Multilevel governance systems like the European Union (EU) calibrate integration with member state discretion in order to implement common, yet context-sensitive solutions to shared policy problems. Research on implementation in the EU typically focuses on legal compliance with EU policy. However, this focus gives us an incomplete picture of EU implementation, its diversity and practice. The contributions of this collection represent a shift toward a more performance-oriented perspective on EU implementation as problem-solving. They approach implementation fundamentally as a process of interpretation of superordinate law by actors who are embedded within multiple contexts arising from the coexistence of dynamics of Europeanization, on the one hand, and what has been termed domestication, on the other. Moving beyond legal compliance, the contributions provide new evidence on the diversity of domestic responses to EU policy, the roles and motivations of actors implementing EU policy, and the black box of EU law in action and its enforcement. By reassessing the relative importance of EU policy and domestic factors and actors for the outcomes of EU implementation, the results give insight into on the nuanced interplay between Europeanization and domestication forces, useful for both EU researchers and practitioners.

The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Eva Thomann is a political scientist specialized in Public Policy and Public Administration. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research about the implementation of public policies in multilevel systems and at the frontline was published, amongst others, in the European Journal of Political Research, Policy Sciences, Public Administration, Governance, and the Journal of Public Policy. Her article Customizing Europe: transposition as bottom-up implementation appeared in the Journal of European Public Policy in 2015. A single-authored book about the customization of European Union (EU) food safety policy is forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillans International Series on Public Policy.

Fritz Sageris professor of Political Science and member of the Executive Board of the KPM Center for Public Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is specialized in policy research and evaluation, administrative studies and theory, organizational analysis, and Swiss politics. His research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, Public Administration Review, Governance, Public Administration, Journal of Public Policy, and the European Political Science Review, among others. His most recent books are The Political Economy of Capital Cities with Heike Mayer, David Kaufmann and Martin Warland (Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2017), Policy-Analyse in der Schweiz with Karin Ingold and Andreas Balthasar (NZZ libro, 2017) and Evaluation im politischen System der Schweiz edited with Thomas Widmer and Andreas Balthasar (NZZ libro, 2017). His research has won several awards.

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Jeremy Richardson, Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK, and National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Berthold Rittberger, International Relations, Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, University of Munich, Germany

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Innovative Approaches to EU Multilevel Implementation

Moving beyond legal compliance

Edited by Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager

Moving Beyond Legal Compliance

Edited by

Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager

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