- 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
Understanding European Environmental Governance
Understanding European Environmental Governance
- Chapter:
- (p.441) 13 Understanding European Environmental Governance
- Source:
- Environmental Governance in Europe
- Author(s):
Albert Weale
Geoffrey Pridham
Michelle Cini
Dimitrios Konstadakopulos
Martin Porter
Brendan Flynn
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
To say that institutions matter — whether in the light of domestic institutions, international regimes, or a unique set of institutions like those of the EU — is to treat them as variables that mediate between the preferences and interests of powerful actors and the policy choices that are made. Institutions matter because, so it is assumed, the same pattern of preferences and interests will give rise to different policy decisions in different institutional contexts. Clearly, the claim that there is a system of EU environmental governance implies that, in the making of EU environmental rules and policies, the process through which policy preferences pass is important. However, in order for it to even matter, institutions have first to be created.
Keywords: environmental governance, institutions, European Union, environmental policy, environmental rules
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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
