The Europeanisation of National Administrations analyzes the impact of European policies on national bureaucracies. Knill's study is a comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy demands in the member states, and contains a detailed account of the administrative impact of European Union environmental policy in Britain and Germany. This book will interest students and scholars of European studies, comparative politics, environmental politics, public administration and organizational studies.
Author(s): Christoph Knill
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
I Theoretical frame of reference and analytical approach......Page 23
1 The keywords: European integration, comparative administration and implementation......Page 25
1.1 Europeanisation and domestic change......Page 26
1.2 Comparative public administration......Page 30
1.3 Implementation research......Page 33
2 An institutional approach to administrative change......Page 36
Institution-based approaches......Page 37
Agency-based approaches......Page 39
2.2 Linking different perspectives on institutional change: a modified concept of historical institutionalism......Page 41
Restricting determinism: linking institution-based and agency-based approaches......Page 42
Different institutional approaches and their level of abstraction......Page 43
Complementary perspectives on institutional change: combining varying levels of analysis......Page 46
Avoiding conservatism: a dynamic perspective on institutional change......Page 48
2.3 Conclusion: institutions and institutional change......Page 49
European policies and national administrations......Page 51
The administrative impact of new regulatory policy......Page 52
Environmental policy as an empirical case......Page 54
Administrative style......Page 55
Administrative structure......Page 56
3.3 Explaining administrative change: the concept of adaptation pressure......Page 57
The institutional dimension of adaptation pressure......Page 59
The dynamic dimension of adaptation pressure......Page 61
Linking adaptation pressure and administrative change: three hypotheses......Page 62
Hypothesis 1: contradiction of the core: administrative resistance......Page 63
Hypothesis 3: confirmation of the core: compliance without change......Page 64
Administrative change across member states: convergence or divergence?......Page 65
3.4 Methodology and procedure......Page 67
Comparing public administrations......Page 71
Structure of the following chapters......Page 72
II Administrative traditions in Germany and Britain: opposing patterns and dynamics......Page 75
The German state tradition: semi-sovereign authority......Page 77
The legal system: binding the administration to the law......Page 80
The civil service: servants of the state......Page 83
The structure of the state and patterns of administrative organisation......Page 85
The British state tradition: government by civil society......Page 89
The legal system: law as mediating social development......Page 92
The civil service: servants of civil society......Page 94
The structure of the state and patterns of administrative organisation......Page 96
5 Administrative reform capacity in Germany and Britain: autonomous versus instrumental administration......Page 101
5.1 Germany: incremental self-adaptation of an autonomous bureaucracy......Page 102
Executive leadership in a fragmented system......Page 103
A rigid backbone: the stability of administrative structures and procedures......Page 106
Inevitable power: the political influence of the German bureaucracy......Page 108
Overlapping spheres: the interlinkage of politicians and bureaucrats......Page 109
The autonomy of a 'centrifugal' bureaucracy......Page 111
Administrative reforms in Germany: incremental changes within a static logic......Page 113
Executive leadership in an integrated system......Page 116
A missing backbone: the malleability of administrative structures and procedures......Page 120
Contingent power: the political influence of the British bureaucracy......Page 122
Separate spheres: the crucial difference between politics and bureaucracy......Page 123
The long shadow of the centre......Page 126
Administrative reform in Britain: innovation within a dynamic logic......Page 127
III Domestic change and persistence: the implementation of EU environmental policy......Page 133
Comprehensiveness and regulatory variety......Page 135
The supranational decision-making context......Page 138
Policy content and development......Page 142
Administrative implications for domestic adjustment......Page 148
7 Germany: the constraints of a static core......Page 151
Domestic arrangements and sectoral 'goodness of fit'......Page 152
Pattern of administrative adaptation: compliance without change......Page 156
The Information Directive......Page 157
The EIA Directive......Page 159
The Information Directive......Page 161
The EIA Directive......Page 163
The Information Directive......Page 164
The EIA Directive......Page 165
Drinking water: long resistance despite sectoral compatibility......Page 166
Domestic arrangements and sectoral 'goodness of fit'......Page 167
Pattern of administrative adaptation: resistance to change......Page 169
The institutional constraints for pragmatic compliance......Page 170
EMAS: accepted adaptation within the core......Page 173
Domestic arrangements and sectoral 'goodness of fit'......Page 174
Pattern of administrative adaptation: accepted adaptation......Page 175
Domestic support for change within the core......Page 176
7.4 Conclusion: a static scope for administrative adaptation......Page 178
8 Britain: the opportunities of a dynamic core......Page 180
Domestic arrangements and sectoral 'goodness of fit'......Page 181
Pattern of administrative adaptation: compliance without change......Page 183
8.2 Change within the core: neglected adaptation......Page 184
Domestic arrangements and sectoral 'goodness of fit'......Page 185
Pattern of administrative adaptation: neglected adaptation......Page 187
Lacking support for changes within the core......Page 189
The LCP Directive......Page 191
The Drinking Water Directive......Page 194
The Information Directive......Page 196
The LCP Directive......Page 197
The Drinking Water Directive......Page 200
The Information Directive......Page 202
Adaptation within a changing core......Page 204
The 'moving core'......Page 205
The reduction of adaptation pressure......Page 206
Promoting support for compliance......Page 208
New options for persistence......Page 209
8.4 Conclusion: a dynamic scope for administrative adaptation......Page 212
IV The Europeanisation of national administrations: comparative assessment and general conclusions......Page 215
9.1 European adaptation pressure and patterns of domestic change......Page 217
The inadequacy of a sectoral perspective......Page 218
Modification 1: different levels of institutional change......Page 220
Modification 2: a dynamic perspective on institutional change......Page 222
9.2 Convergence versus divergence......Page 223
10 Towards generalisation: different mechanisms of Europeanisation......Page 229
10.1 Europeanisation by institutional compliance......Page 230
10.2 Europeanisation by changing domestic opportunity structures......Page 231
10.3 Europeanisation by framing domestic beliefs and expectations......Page 237
10.4 Conclusion......Page 241
References......Page 244
Index......Page 266
