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This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the nature of institutions, interdependence between trans-national and national jurisdictions and social systems, relate policy actors across geographical boundaries, identifying four basic types of EU policy transfer and learning: ‘uploading’– how member states compete to shape the EU agenda in line with their own institutional arrangements and policy preferences ‘downloading’– how states adapt to changing EU incentives and constraints ‘socialization’ – how EU policy norms are internalized in the belief systems of domestic actors ‘information exchange’ between national actors in the course of EU interactions leading to a horizontal diffusion of policy ideas. The authors use an institutionalist perspective to show how these forms of policy transfer operate across the diverse systems of governance found across the EU. Policy Transfer in European Union Governance will be of great interest to students and scholars of European Union politics and policy, comparative public policy and political economy.
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Policy Transfer in European Union Governance This new book presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding the transfer of policy ideas between EU states, together with an empirical study of regulatory change within European utilities. Policy transfer is a new instrument for understanding EU policy-making. This volume shows how the nature of institutions, interdependence between trans-national and national jurisdictions and social systems relate policy actors across geographical boundaries, identifying four basic types of EU policy transfer and learning: ‘uploading’ – how member states compete to shape the EU agenda in line with their own institutional arrangements and policy preferences; ‘downloading’ – how states adapt to changing EU incentives and constraints; ‘socialization’ – how EU policy norms are internalized in the belief systems of domestic actors; ‘information exchange’ between national actors in the course of EU interactions leading to a horizontal diffusion of policy ideas. The authors use an institutionalist perspective to show how these forms of policy transfer operate across the diverse systems of governance found in the EU. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of European Union politics and policy, comparative public policy and political economy. Simon Bulmer is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. David Dolowitz is Reader in the School of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. Peter Humphreys is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Stephen Padgett is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, UK. Routledge Advances in European Politics 1 Russian Messianism Third Rome, revolution, Communism and after Peter J.S. Duncan 8 Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans Nationalism and the destruction of tradition Cathie Carmichael 2 European Integration and the Postmodern Condition Governance, democracy, identity Peter van Ham 9 Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe The democratisation of the general public in fifteen Central and Eastern European countries, 1991–1998 Christian W. Haerpfer 3 Nationalism in Italian Politics The stories of the Northern League, 1980–2000 Damian Tambini 4 International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995 Edited by Peter Siani-Davies 5 Widening the European Union The politics of institutional change and reform Edited by Bernard Steunenberg 10 Private Sector Involvement in the Euro The power of ideas St