European Union Policy-Making : The Regulatory Shift in Natural Gas Market Policy

Herweg, Nicole

ISBN 10: 3319841548 / ISBN 13: 9783319841540

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2018-07, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: European Union Policy-Making : The Regulatory Shift in Natural Gas Market Policy
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2018-07
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319841548
• ISBN 13: 9783319841540
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes. It systematically defines and identifies functional equivalents for all of the framework’s core concepts at the EU level and extends the framework in order to explain agenda-setting and decision-making. Furthermore, the book derives a set of explicit hypotheses to empirically assess the extent to which the (modified) framework is able to explain timing, agenda prominence, and policy change (or a lack thereof) for the EU natural gas directives passed in 1998, 2003, and 2009. The analysis documents that the framework is well-suited to explain the EU policy process in general and reveals where additional theoretical refinements are required.

About the Author

Nicole Herweg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her primary field of interest is comparative public-policy analysis, in particular European Union energy policy. She has published in leading political science journals, including European Journal of Political Research, Policy Studies Journal, and Policy Sciences.