The Europeanisation of National Administrations: Patterns of Institutional Change and Persistence (Themes in European Governance)

273 Pages·2001·0.817 MB·English

by  Christoph Knill

The Europeanisation of
National
Administrations:
Patterns of Institutional
Change and Persistence
Christoph Knill
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TheEuropeanisationofNationalAdministrations
PatternsofInstitutionalChangeandPersistence
Christoph Knill’s book analyses the impact of European policies on
national administrations. Under which conditions can we expect
domestic change, particularly theconvergence of administrative styles
andstructures?Howcanweexplainnationalpatternsofadministrative
transformationinthecontextofEuropeanisation?
Knill’s study is a comparative assessment of the factors influencing
administrativeadjustmenttoEuropeanpolicydemandsinthemember
states. It addresses the topic from an innovative theoretical perspec-
tive, combining institution-based and agency-based approaches, and
includes a detailed account of the administrative impact of EU
environmental policy in Britain and Germany. The Europeanisation of
National Administrations will be of great interest to students, scholars
andpractitionersinthe fields ofEuropean studies, public administra-
tion and public policy, environmental politics and European adminis-
trativelaw.
christophknillisProfessorforEuropeanStudiesattheUniversityof
Jena.HispublicationsincludeRingingtheChangesinEurope:Regulatory
Competition and the Transformation of the State (1996; with A. He´ritier
and S. Mingers) and Implementing EU Environmental Policy: New
DirectionsandOldProblems(2000;withA.Lenschow).
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ThemesinEuropeanGovernance
SeriesEditors
AndreasFøllesdal
JohanP.Olsen
EditorialBoard
StefanoBartolini BeateKohler-Koch PercyLehning
AndrewMoravcsik UlrichPreuss ThomasRisse
FritzW.Scharpf PhilipSchlesinger HelenWallace
AlbertWeale J.H.H.Weiler
The evolving European systems of governance, in particular the European
Union, challenge and transform thestate, themost importantlocus of govern-
anceandpoliticalidentityandloyaltyoverthelast200years.TheseriesThemes
in European Governance aims to publish the best theoretical and analytical
scholarship on the impact of European governance on the core institutions,
policiesandidentitiesofnation-states.Itfocusesupontheimplicationsonissues
suchascitizenship,welfare,politicaldecision-making,andeconomic monetary
and fiscal policies. An initiative of Cambridge University Press and the Pro-
gramme on Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State
(ARENA), Norway, the series includes contributions in the social sciences,
humanities and law. The series aims to provide theoretically informed studies
analysing key issues both at the European level and within European states.
Volumes in the series will be of interest to scholars and students of Europe,
within Europe and worldwide It will be of particular relevance to those inter-
estedinthedevelopmentofsovereigntyandgovernanceofEuropeanstatesand
in the issues raised by multi-level governance and multi-national integration
throughouttheworld.
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The Europeanisation of
National Administrations
Patterns of Institutional Change and Persistence
ChristophKnill
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' Christoph Knill 2001
This edition ' Christoph Knill 2003
First published in printed format 2001
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Original ISBN 0 521 80632 1 hardback
Original ISBN 0 521 00092 0 paperback
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Contents
Listoftables page ix
Preface xi
Listofabbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
I Theoreticalframeofreferenceandanalytical
approach 7
1 Thekeywords:Europeanintegration,comparative
administrationandimplementation 9
2 Aninstitutionalapproachtoadministrativechange 20
3 Theanalyticalframework 35
II AdministrativetraditionsinGermanyandBritain:
opposingpatternsanddynamics 59
4 TheinstitutionalfoundationofGermanandBritish
administrativetraditions 61
5 AdministrativereformcapacityinGermanyandBritain:
autonomousversusinstrumentaladministration 85
III Domesticchangeandpersistence:the
implementationofEUenvironmentalpolicy 117
6 TheadministrativeimplicationsofEUenvironmental
policy 119
7 Germany:theconstraintsofastaticcore 135
8 Britain:theopportunitiesofadynamiccore 164
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viii Contents
IV TheEuropeanisationofnationaladministrations:
comparativeassessmentandgeneralconclusions 199
9 Comparativeassessment:theexplanatoryvalueof
institutions 201
10 Towardsgeneralisation:differentmechanismsof
Europeanisation 213
References 228
Index 250
Tables
3.1 Thedependentvariable:dimensionsofadministrative
change page 41
3.2 Theindependentvariable:dimensionsandlevelsof
adaptationpressure 47
3.3 Patternsofadministrativechangeacrossmemberstates 50
6.1 Administrativeimplicationsofthepoliciesunderstudy 134
9.1 Theexplanatoryvalueofa‘simple’institutional
perspectiveofsectoralfitandmisfit 203
9.2 Theexplanatoryvalueofadifferentiatedinstitutional
perspective 206
9.3 Administrativeconvergence/divergenceundertheimpact
ofEuropeanlegislation 211
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