Community legislation is unquestionably a factor to be reckoned with in member-state policy making. But the extent and mode of its impact on domestic policies and administrative structures will depend on the existing policy practices and the political and institutional structures of the country...

This analysis focuses on the relationship between supranational regulatory policy and national administrative change. We argue that the potential for change and cross-national convergence varies with the particular governance pattern employed, namely coercion, competition and communication. We...

If one considers the different environmental action programs of the EU in which the strategic orientation of the EU environmental policy is defined for the mid-range, one can hardly avoid the impression that there has been a comprehensive transformation in the ideas about political governance....

There is no doubt about the political necessity of the Eastern enlargement of the European Union and corresponding reforms of its political institutions. By contrast, the shape and content of these reforms is a subject that is highly contested between the member states. In this context, when the...

1. Kapitel Staatlichkeit und staatlicher Wandel in Großbritannien -- 2. Kapitel Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen und analytischer Ansatz -- 3. Kapitel „Chumminess“ und „Secrecy“: die britische Luftreinhaltepolitik zu Beginn der achtziger Jahre -- 4. Kapitel Internationaler Druck und Britische...