Explaining environmental compliance: Study on the relationship between Member State and directive-specific factors and transposition delay.
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2020-07-14
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This thesis tries to explain environmental compliance of Member States. It investigates the relationship between Member State and directive-specific factors and transposition delay. On the Member State level, the Member State power, left-wing party strength, constitutional autonomy , administrative capacities, corporatism, the degree for the support of the rule of law and degree for the support for the European Union (EU) are incorporated in the analysis. On the directive level, the degree of ambiguity and conflict are tested in relation with transposition delay. Transposition delay is the dependent variable and is a sufficient indicator for compliance because delays can be determined over a relatively large number of cases enabling generalizations to be tested in different time periods. As this research is concerned with the effects of variables measured at different levels, the Member State level and the directive level, it uses the fixed effects approach to control for differences between groups. It appears that a powerful Member State with a high share of left-wing parties in their national parliament, characterized with a low level of constitutional autonomy, a highly corporatist society who enjoys high levels of public support for the EU and needs to transpose a directive that is not ambiguous, is not likely to be compliant with environmental directives.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen