Microfoundations of Policy Implementation: Towards European Best Practices

ISBN-13: 9789292030209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 130 str.

Phedon Nicolaides

Opis

The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states. This book examines how policy implementation may be improved. It explains the nature of policy mistakes, proceeds to consider how individual public authorities and organizations can avoid making policy mistakes and then, in the light of its findings, derives how the EU may induce its member states and their public authorities to improve their compliance with EU rules and policies.

Basically, this is a book about how the right incentives at national level can improve institutional performance and contribute towards more effective application of EU rules across member states without having to confer new competences to the EU. Its premise is that strengthening the capacity of organizations to learn should not only lead to better performance, but should also stimulate useful policy experimentation across the EU.

Although this volume focuses on the obligations of EU membership and how to strengthen compliance, the proposed solutions have broader applicability. Improved organizational capacity for policy implementation will also be beneficial in those areas where the EU has no formal competence. Just as member states can learn from each other, so can policy officials in different policy fields. Good practices can spread.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: The main issues 2 Problem defined: Policy errors 3 A bit of a theory 4 Anatomy of errors 5 Avoidable errors 6 Can organizations make mistakes? 7 Developing organizational capacity for error avoidance 8 Rules and norms in policy implementation 9 Incentives for error avoidance 10 Capacity for policy implementation 11 Obligations of EU membership 12 Synthesis and recommendations: Policy experimentation and ‘nudging’ public administrations 13 Concluding remarks

O autorze

Phedon Nicolaides