- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 The Single Market and the Environment: From Issue Linkage to Political Choice
- 2 Programmes, Principles, and Policies
- 3 Actors and Institutions in Environmental Governance
- 4 Patterns of Environmental Governance in the European Union
- Introduction to Part II
- 5 National Policies on the Environment: Evolution, Principles, and Style
- 6 The Institutionalization of Environmental Policy
- 7 Domestic Politics and Society-Related Variables
- 8 National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
- 9 Convergent and Divergent Trends in European Environmental Policy
- Introduction to Part III
- 10 Water Quality and European Environmental Governance
- 11 Air Pollution Control and Multi-Level Governance
- 12 Packaging and Packaging Waste
- Introduction to Part IV
- 13 Understanding European Environmental Governance
- 14 North and South in the European Union: From Diffusion to Learning?
- 15 Competing Models of European Environmental Governance
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
- Chapter:
- (p.295) 8 National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
- Source:
- Environmental Governance in Europe
- Author(s):
Albert Weale
Geoffrey Pridham
Michelle Cini
Dimitrios Konstadakopulos
Martin Porter
Brendan Flynn
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter places national systems in the context of European Union (EU) multi-level environmental governance. The role played by the EU in harmonising, or at least reducing the variation of, national policy strategies and practices, is discussed together with the problems raised by the implementation of EU environmental measures and their associated difficulties of compliance. Understanding of the extent to which international pressures make for convergence among national systems will begin if the circumstances under which countries find it easy or difficult to comply with EU environmental measures are identified. With the issue of compliance, the consideration is primarily with the direct effects of the EU's system of multi-level governance.
Keywords: European Union, national systems, environmental governance, environmental measures, compliance, implementation
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 The Single Market and the Environment: From Issue Linkage to Political Choice
- 2 Programmes, Principles, and Policies
- 3 Actors and Institutions in Environmental Governance
- 4 Patterns of Environmental Governance in the European Union
- Introduction to Part II
- 5 National Policies on the Environment: Evolution, Principles, and Style
- 6 The Institutionalization of Environmental Policy
- 7 Domestic Politics and Society-Related Variables
- 8 National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
- 9 Convergent and Divergent Trends in European Environmental Policy
- Introduction to Part III
- 10 Water Quality and European Environmental Governance
- 11 Air Pollution Control and Multi-Level Governance
- 12 Packaging and Packaging Waste
- Introduction to Part IV
- 13 Understanding European Environmental Governance
- 14 North and South in the European Union: From Diffusion to Learning?
- 15 Competing Models of European Environmental Governance
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
