period from 1978 to 1999. Our results provide qualified support for the idea that benefits positively influence compliance …

Accession to the European Union (EU) demands the adoption of a vast body of legislation. This paper analyses compliance …

European compliance research has benefited greatly from both quantitative and qualitative studies. Scholars have raised … our awareness of potential country, policy sector and Directive-specific compliance patterns, while drawing on very …

We identify and explain significant differences between the compliance enforcement systems of three cap …. Because EU-ETS's compliance enforcement system is somewhat less potent than that of US S02, but vastly more potent than Kyoto …'s, it might be tempting to predict that EU-ETS will (I) not quite achieve the S02 programme's near-perfect compliance rates …

provision. The descriptive analysis shows that protracted non-compliance in national transposition is a rare event. The …

conditionality. Building upon previous theoretical accounts, the authors argue that candidates’ compliance behaviour can be …€™ compliance with EU law under accession conditionality from 1998 to 2009. …

sanctioning mechanism is warranted for safeguarding compliance with directives. …