Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: flexible EU governance in domestic practice
- 2 Theorising the domestic impact of EU law: the state of the art and beyond
- 3 EU social policy over time: the role of Directives
- 4 The Employment Contract Information Directive: a small but useful social complement to the internal market
- 5 The Pregnant Workers Directive: European social policy between protection and employability
- 6 The Working Time Directive: European standards taken hostage by domestic politics
- 7 The Young Workers Directive: a safety net with holes
- 8 The Parental Leave Directive: compulsory policy innovation and voluntary over-implementation
- 9 The Part-time Work Directive: a facilitator of national reforms
- 10 Voluntary reforms triggered by the Directives
- 11 The EU Commission and (non-)compliance in the member states
- 12 Beyond policy change: convergence of national public–private relations?
- 13 Implementation across countries and Directives
- 14 Why do member states fail to comply? Testing the hypotheses suggested in the literature
- 15 Three worlds of compliance: a typology
- 16 Conclusions: myth and reality of social Europe
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: flexible EU governance in domestic practice
- 2 Theorising the domestic impact of EU law: the state of the art and beyond
- 3 EU social policy over time: the role of Directives
- 4 The Employment Contract Information Directive: a small but useful social complement to the internal market
- 5 The Pregnant Workers Directive: European social policy between protection and employability
- 6 The Working Time Directive: European standards taken hostage by domestic politics
- 7 The Young Workers Directive: a safety net with holes
- 8 The Parental Leave Directive: compulsory policy innovation and voluntary over-implementation
- 9 The Part-time Work Directive: a facilitator of national reforms
- 10 Voluntary reforms triggered by the Directives
- 11 The EU Commission and (non-)compliance in the member states
- 12 Beyond policy change: convergence of national public–private relations?
- 13 Implementation across countries and Directives
- 14 Why do member states fail to comply? Testing the hypotheses suggested in the literature
- 15 Three worlds of compliance: a typology
- 16 Conclusions: myth and reality of social Europe
- References
- Index
Summary
This book is the result of intensive teamwork over a couple of years. Funded by the Max Planck Society, a research group on 'New Governance and Social Europe: Minimum Harmonisation and Soft Law in the European Multi–level System' was established at the Cologne-based Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. We are grateful to the Institute's Directors, Fritz W. Scharpf (until 2003) and Wolfgang Streeck, for their support of our work. From October1999 to September 2003, the research team collaborated face-to-face in Cologne. Co-operation has been continuing ever since then, with e-mails and phone calls serving to bridge the physical gap between the team members, who have all moved on to new jobs in different places all over Europe.
Directed by Gerda Falkner, the group of collaborators included three doctoral students who wrote their dissertation theses on specific aspects within the group's common theme. In his doctoral thesis, Oliver Treib examined the transposition of EU Directives. Focusing on Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK,he sought to establish the relative significance of the amount of policy misfit vis-à-vis other explanatory factors in determining domestic transposition performance (Treib 2004). After completing his thesis, he continued to work in the project team as a postdoctoral researcher. Miriam Hartlapp's dissertation analysed the transposition process and the enforcement structures in the southern and francophone member states, and the European Commission's enforcement policy (Hartlapp 2005).
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- Complying with EuropeEU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005