Recent debates about the problem-solving capacity of supranational governance within the EU form the background of this paper, which explores the causal conditions for correct and timely transposition of EU directives. In this context, some scholars have pointed to the degree of fit or misfit...

Rationale Transportpolitik, die ökonomische und ökologische Aspekte berücksichtigt, ist aus theoretischer und institutioneller bzw. wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht eine besondere Herausforderung. Während traditionelle (US-dominierte) Ansätze die internationalen Dimensionen der Transportpolitik...

Im Beitrag werden, basierend auf den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels 1993, die Einflußfaktoren umweltorientierter Innovationen in Deutschland in einem multivariaten Kontext ökonometrisch untersucht. Ziel ist es, sowohl allgemeine Strukturen der Einflußfaktoren von Umweltinnovationen zu...

The main objective of the European Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control is to achieve an integrated approach of environmental protection by co-ordinating the authorization procedures of the competent authorities. However, by prescribing the permit...

Abstract Recent scholarship on the process of European integration emphasizes the struc-tural limits of positive integration. Against this background, the analysis of international environmental regimes promises to be illuminating. A closer look at three environmental regimes reveals that these...

The principle of subsidiarity can be seen as a way of generating constitutional law because it covers an essential part of procedural constitutional provisions, i. e. the allocation of competences between member states and Community. In particular it proves to be a standard of constitutional...