The influence of state’s administrative tradition and administrative culture on the implementation of environmental policies in the European Union.
(2019) WPMM43 20191Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The implementation step of environmental policies has often been disregarded by researchers, who mainly focused on the policy-making process. Yet, implementation is crucial for the success of a policy. We looked at the influence of domestic factors in the implementation process to explain how countries members of the European Union that have similar administrative capacities yet obtain different implementation results. We combined two theoretical lenses: neo-institutionalism with rational choice and complexity theories, to address knowledge gaps in the literature concerning the influence of agent behavior on implementation and see how institutional designs influence these behaviors. Using mixed methods, we first run OLS regressions to... (More)
- The implementation step of environmental policies has often been disregarded by researchers, who mainly focused on the policy-making process. Yet, implementation is crucial for the success of a policy. We looked at the influence of domestic factors in the implementation process to explain how countries members of the European Union that have similar administrative capacities yet obtain different implementation results. We combined two theoretical lenses: neo-institutionalism with rational choice and complexity theories, to address knowledge gaps in the literature concerning the influence of agent behavior on implementation and see how institutional designs influence these behaviors. Using mixed methods, we first run OLS regressions to analyze correlations between administrative traditions, administrative culture, and implementation performances, for several EU directives and recommendations. While we found solid evidence that federalist states achieve better performances, results for the correlations concerning the cultural aspects, i.e. the systems of thougt and values of administrations were less consistent. To obtain more explanations, we undertook a qualitative analysis of nine interviews from public-agents working for the German, French and Swedish ministers of environment. Commitment to environmental issues is associated with better implementation performance, while compliance to the EU has a positive effect when this value is present at a very high degree, although it is the association of this factor with other cultural factors whose emergence is possibly favoured by a corporatist administrative tradition, that explains differences across countries, but not only. Studying the emergence and the articulation of these values in a specific institutional design is a complex process that could help to explain differences between EU countries. (Less)
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- author
- Krikorian, Victor LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- WPMM43 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- mplementation, Environmental policies, European Union, Neo-institutionalism with rational-choice, Complexity theories, Administrative traditions, Administrative culture, mix-methods.
- language
- English
- id
- 8976033
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- 2019-09-06 09:29:48
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- 2019-09-06 09:29:54
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abstract = {{The implementation step of environmental policies has often been disregarded by researchers, who mainly focused on the policy-making process. Yet, implementation is crucial for the success of a policy. We looked at the influence of domestic factors in the implementation process to explain how countries members of the European Union that have similar administrative capacities yet obtain different implementation results. We combined two theoretical lenses: neo-institutionalism with rational choice and complexity theories, to address knowledge gaps in the literature concerning the influence of agent behavior on implementation and see how institutional designs influence these behaviors. Using mixed methods, we first run OLS regressions to analyze correlations between administrative traditions, administrative culture, and implementation performances, for several EU directives and recommendations. While we found solid evidence that federalist states achieve better performances, results for the correlations concerning the cultural aspects, i.e. the systems of thougt and values of administrations were less consistent. To obtain more explanations, we undertook a qualitative analysis of nine interviews from public-agents working for the German, French and Swedish ministers of environment. Commitment to environmental issues is associated with better implementation performance, while compliance to the EU has a positive effect when this value is present at a very high degree, although it is the association of this factor with other cultural factors whose emergence is possibly favoured by a corporatist administrative tradition, that explains differences across countries, but not only. Studying the emergence and the articulation of these values in a specific institutional design is a complex process that could help to explain differences between EU countries.}},
author = {{Krikorian, Victor}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The influence of state’s administrative tradition and administrative culture on the implementation of environmental policies in the European Union.}},
year = {{2019}},
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