Law and Governance in Postnational Europe
Compliance Beyond the Nation-State
This 2005 book argues that Europeanization and globalization have led to
ever-more intensive legalization at transnational level. What accounts for compliance
beyond the nation-state?
The authors tackle this question by comparing compliance with regulations that
have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels of governance. They test
compliance with rules at the national level, at the regional level (EU), and at a global
level (WTO), finding that in fact the EU has higher levels of compliance than both
international and national rules.
The authors argue that this is because the EU has a higher level of
legalization, combined with effective monitoring mechanisms and sanctions. In this respect
it seems that the European Union has indeed achieved a high level of legalization and
compliance, though the authors add that this achievement does not settle the related
queries with the legitimacy of transnational governance and law.
• Provides multiple comparisons: policies, political levels, theoretical approaches
• Offers a perspective on the effects, on the output and outcomes of common institutions
rather than on their creation or decision-making
• Interdisciplinary analysis: political science and law
Table of Contents
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
1. Introduction: law and compliance at different levels Michael Zürn
2. The analysis of compliance with international rules: definitions, variables and
methodology Jürgen Neyer and Dieter Wolf
3. State aid control at the national, European and international level
Dieter Wolf
4. Domestic limits of supranational law: comparing compliance with European and
international foodstuffs regulations Jürgen Neyer
5. Politics of intergovernmental redistribution: comparing compliance with
European and federal redistributive regulations Jürgen Neyer
6. Conclusions - the conditions of compliance Michael Zürn and Jürgen
Neyer
7. Compliance research in legal perspectives Christian Joerges
References
Index.
312 pages,Paperback