Comparing policy instruments employed in the European Union's environmental and social policy, this book develops a general theoretical framework to illustrate how policy-makers prefer different types of policy instruments depending on the respective effect they wish to have on …
A systematic comparison of the techniques used to implement policy goals in European environmental policy and European social policy. Holger Bähr argues that decisions made by political institutions and the politicization of policy problems both constrain political actors and pr…
"Policy instruments are techniques used to implement policy goals. Subject to political conflict, they address the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed. Why do political actors choose certain policy instruments to implement policy goals? Systematicall…
Today, the European environmental regime seems omnipresent. A rare beetle can stop a building project, the local water authorities have to make sure that the European Eel can reach his home waters after having travelled the Atlantic, European standards for air quality cause trou…
by Meurs, Wim P. van, Eckert, Astrid M., Coates, Peter A., Gross, Robert, Weber, Heike, Grift, Liesbeth van de, Wöbse, Anna-Katharina, Laakkonen, Simo, Kaijser, Arne, Meyer, Jan-Henrik, Seefried, Elke, Kupper, Patrick, Aschwanden, Romed, Bont, Raf de, Buck, Maria, Hasenöhrl, Ute, Hölzl, Richard, Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, Räsänen, Tuomas, Schmidt, Kira J., Ziemek, Hans-Peter, Šimková, Pavla Š, Oosthoek, Jan, Vetter-Schultheiss, Silke
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Today, the European environmental regime seems omnipresent. A rare beetle can stop a building project, the local water authorities have to make sure that the European Eel can reach his home waters after having travelled the Atlantic, European standards for air quality cause trou…
This is a fully edited text arising from a major European Commission research project - Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Mobility (POSSUM). New material has also been commissioned to produce a valuable publication for all those concerned with transport and in particular for thos…
Climate policy is today a significant area of EU governance, providing important framework conditions for many industries. But how has EU climate policy developed? This book offers structured, comparative case studies of the development of four central climate policies: emission…
