A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.
To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.
With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states, it is often assumed that there is an overall trend towards increasingly similar policies across countries. Comparative research on the domestic...
A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.
The Europeanisation of National Administrations analyzes the impact of European policies on national bureaucracies. Knill's study is a comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy demands in the member states, and contains a detailed account of the administrative impact of European Union environmental policy in Britain and Germany. This book will interest students and scholars of European studies, comparative politics, environmental politics, public administration and organizational studies.
The Europeanisation of National Administrations analyzes the impact of European policies on national bureaucracies. Knill's study is a comparative ass...
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.
This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clea...
This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the making, the development and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. The environmental policy of the European Union (EU) has made impressive progress during the last three decades. Starting off as little more than a by-product of economic integration, environmental policy developed into a central area of EU policy-making. This book explores the driving forces behind this development. It identifies the central areas and instruments of EU environmental policy. It analyses the factors influencing not only the...
This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the making, the development and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. The ...
The Europeanisation of National Administrations analyzes the impact of European policies on national bureaucracies. Knill's study is a comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy demands in the member states, and contains a detailed account of the administrative impact of European Union environmental policy in Britain and Germany. This book will interest students and scholars of European studies, comparative politics, environmental politics, public administration and organizational studies.
The Europeanisation of National Administrations analyzes the impact of European policies on national bureaucracies. Knill's study is a comparative ass...
In recent years, international organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This development has so far not been subject to systematic or comparative investigations. With Management Reforms in International Organizations, editors Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill open this black box. How can we explain the speed, acceptance, and scope of management reforms in international organizations? How important are Secretary Generals and members states? Do international organizations, often considered as crucial diffusion agents for...
In recent years, international organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This devel...
Has globalization led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies of nation states have converged over the last thirty years and whether this convergence has led to a strengthening or weakening of environmental standards (a race to the top, or a race to the bottom). It also analyses the factors that account for these developments. Based on a unique empirical data set, the study covers the development of a wide range of environmental policies in twenty-four OECD countries,...
Has globalization led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to wh...
Das zentrale Erkenntnisinteresse des Buches liegt auf der Analyse nationaler Auswirkungen des Bologna-Prozesses und der damit einhergehenden weichen Formen transnationalen Regierens. Es wird angenommen, dass transnationale Kommunikation im Rahmen des Bologna-Prozess zu landerubergreifender Politikkonvergenz fuhrt. Ausgangspunkt ist die Untersuchung nationaler Bedingungen (z.B. soziookonomischer Problemdruck, kulturelle und institutionelle Ahnlichkeit der Lander untereinander), welche die Wirkung des Kausalmechanismus transnationale Kommunikation konditionieren. Am Beispiel der Konvergenz im...
Das zentrale Erkenntnisinteresse des Buches liegt auf der Analyse nationaler Auswirkungen des Bologna-Prozesses und der damit einhergehenden weichen F...
The regulation of issues like abortion, euthanasia, gun control, same-sex unions, pornography, prostitution, drugs, or gambling is commonly referred to a special class of so called morality policies. The distinctive feature of these policies is that politics are shaped by conflicts over first principle: When does life end? When does it begin? Is gambling, drug consumption or prostitution inherently malignant? The regulation of these value conflicts entails decisions about "right" or "wrong" and hence the "validation of a particular set of basic values." Yet there is still a remarkable lack...
The regulation of issues like abortion, euthanasia, gun control, same-sex unions, pornography, prostitution, drugs, or gambling is commonly referre...
Das Buch analysiert Ursachen und Mechanismen des Wandels politischer Steuerung im Zeitablauf. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien werden zentrale Faktoren und Zusammenhange des Steuerungswandels herausgearbeitet. Dabei steht das Ziel im Vordergrund, die jeweiligen Faktoren und Ergebnisse des Wandels politischer Steuerung fur unterschiedliche historische, geographische, institutionelle und sektorale Konstellationen empirisch zu erfassen und Hypothesen uber allgemeine Zusammenhange zwischen dem Wandel von Steuerungsideen, Steuerungsbedingungen und Steuerungsmustern zu formulieren.
Das Buch analysiert Ursachen und Mechanismen des Wandels politischer Steuerung im Zeitablauf. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien werden zentrale Faktor...
