Overview
- Provides the conceptual basis for systematic and cumulative comparative empirical research on the customization of EU policy
- Examines how multilevel implementation affects the practical solution of common problems in the EU
- Appeals to students and scholars of Public Policy, Political Science, and European Union Studies
Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
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“As a Journal Editor for over twenty-five years, I have read a lot about the European Union. I am often asked, 'what are the major gaps in EU research?' My answer is always 'implementation'. Eva Thomann's book makes a major contribution to EU implementation studies. She brings really fresh thinking to the field. This is an important book for all students of the EU and of policy implementation."
—Jeremy Richardson, Co-Editor of the Journal of European Public Policy
This book sheds light on the patterns, causes and consequences of the “customization” of European Union (EU) policies. Even if they comply, member states interpret and adapt EU rules in very diverse ways when putting them into practice. We can think of and measure this diversity as a phenomenon of regulatory change along the implementation chain. The book explores what explains customization, and what it means for providing policy solutions to shared problems. It studies the implementation of EU food safety policies in Austria, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland using innovative qualitative comparative techniques. After looking at the role of prominent compliance arguments and the “logics of action” for customization, the study assesses how differing degrees of customization affect the success of the implementation. The book provides a new, evidence-based perspective on “gold-plating” and better regulation in Europe for scholars, students and practitioners of policy implementation, European integration and Europeanization alike.
—Jeremy Richardson, Co-Editor of the Journal of European Public Policy
This book sheds light on the patterns, causes and consequences of the “customization” of European Union (EU) policies. Even if they comply, member states interpret and adapt EU rules in very diverse ways when putting them into practice. We can think of and measure this diversity as a phenomenon of regulatory change along the implementation chain. The book explores what explains customization, and what it means for providing policy solutions to shared problems. It studies the implementation of EU food safety policies in Austria, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland using innovative qualitative comparative techniques. After looking at the role of prominent compliance arguments and the “logics of action” for customization, the study assesses how differing degrees of customization affect the success of the implementation. The book provides a new, evidence-based perspective on “gold-plating” and better regulation in Europe for scholars, students and practitioners of policy implementation, European integration and Europeanization alike.
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Keywords
- customization
- discretion
- Europeanization
- policy implementation
- gold-plating
- regulatory change
- comparative research design
- set-theoretic methods
- compliance
- fuzzy-set
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- explanatory typologies
- logic of appropriateness
- logic of consequences
- implementation success
- pracital implementation
- adaptive implementation
- better regulation
- european union politics
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eva Thomann is a senior lecturer in politics at the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK. Her research about the implementation of public policies particularly focuses on member state implementation in the European Union and policy implementation by “street-level bureaucrats”. She specializes in set-theoretic comparative configurational research methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Customized Implementation of European Union Food Safety Policy
Book Subtitle: United in Diversity?
Authors: Eva Thomann
Series Title: International Series on Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92684-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92683-4Published: 29 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06490-7Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92684-1Published: 14 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-7301
Series E-ISSN: 2524-731X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Union Politics, Political Leadership, Comparative Politics, Food Science