KOUTALAKIS, CHARALAM · Making european policies work in the south : explaining non-compliance in italy and greece.

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Цел на проекта

Both the European Commission and the academic literature have been denouncing a growing compliance deficit that is believed to threaten both the effectiveness and legitimacy of European policy making (see the White Book on Governance). Literature especially in the area of EU environmental policy tends to attribute compliance problems of the Southern member states to specific endemic characteristics of their domestic institutions that hinder effective implementation. the so-called Mediterranean Syndrome". This project argues that these conventional explanations suffer from two major explanatory problems. First. they cannot explain cross country variations in implementation performance since they assume that southern member states share homogeneous characteristics. Second, they fail to explain cross-sectoral variations within a single member state. Why does a member state fail to comply with some EU laws while it is more successful with others? The proposed project aims at developing an explanatory framework that departs from geographically bound causal explanations of the compliance problem in the EU. It seeks to integrate the interplay between EU -level requirements on the one hand, and policy traditions and patterns of policy making prevailing at the domestic level. on the other, Greece and Italy provide a critical sensing within hich the explanatory model will be tested since they both experience serious non-compliance problems. The comparative study will trace legal implementation. the practical application and the enforcement of EU environmental and procurement law. The post-doctoral proposal builds upon the work undertaken by the applicant in the course of his PhD research on the domestic impact of EU policies with particular focus on the factors that foster institutional change at the member state level in the implementation of EU structural policies in Greece. By extending the analysis to the compliance with two EU regulatory policies in Greece and Italy he will improve his theoretical knowledge about Europeanization mechanisms and implementation problems and broaden his empirical expertise by working on a second country and two different policy areas. Most importantly, he will complement his analytical skills with new statistical skills. The Humboldt-University, Berlin as the host institution is an excellent facility since it offers courses statistical analysis on non-linear models. Including ogit and probit. Moreover Social Science Institute hosts a research group which focuses on similar questions of member state non-compliance with EU Law. Since the Humboldt project mainly tocuses on northern European member states, the collaboration between the two projects will be mutually beneficial."

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Участници

• HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BERLINКоординаторГермания

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