This chapter examines the processes and outcomes of Europeanization in the German utilities' sectors. Employing an institutionalist perspective, it focuses on interaction between the institutional system of the EU and that of Germany. Adaptation pressures, it is argued, are reduced by Germany's ability to exert 'soft' power to ensure that EU policy is congruent with domestic governance. The tempo of EU reform is particularly significant. Incremental legislation in telecommunications permitted Germany to liberalize at its own pace in line with domestic policy style. In electricity, by contrast, the 1996 Directive created more acute adaptation pressures. Thus, in telecommunications Germany was activist in 'downloading' EU legislation in line ...
In David Levi-Faur and Eran Vigoda (eds.). International Public Policy and Management: Policy Learni...
Traditionally, the member states have been especially concerned with national sovereignty in matters...
Telecommunications in the past constituted a tightly regulated, nationally oriented policy field. In...
The European utilities sectors exemplify the transformation of regulatory capitalism, with far reach...
Characteristics of the German model of managed capitalism were particularly pronounced in highly reg...
After ten years of controversial negotiations, the European Union finally took action to liberalize ...
The introduction of market elements into monopolistic network industries has progressively gained po...
The creation of a European Union-level regulatory regime for telecommunications and electricity was ...
textabstractFor more than a decade, the European governments have focused their energy policies on c...
Concerns about climate change, diminishing social acceptance of traditional fuels, and technological...
This chapter considers the evolving institutional responses to the challenge of regulating telecoms ...
The present work aspires to provide a comprehensive analysis of the policy developments through whic...
The existing literature explains the emergence of European regulatory networks through the need for ...
Concerns about climate change, diminishing social acceptance of traditional fuels, and technological...
The objective of this paper is to examine the interaction between companies and the changing regulat...
In David Levi-Faur and Eran Vigoda (eds.). International Public Policy and Management: Policy Learni...
Traditionally, the member states have been especially concerned with national sovereignty in matters...
Telecommunications in the past constituted a tightly regulated, nationally oriented policy field. In...
The European utilities sectors exemplify the transformation of regulatory capitalism, with far reach...
Characteristics of the German model of managed capitalism were particularly pronounced in highly reg...
After ten years of controversial negotiations, the European Union finally took action to liberalize ...
The introduction of market elements into monopolistic network industries has progressively gained po...
The creation of a European Union-level regulatory regime for telecommunications and electricity was ...
textabstractFor more than a decade, the European governments have focused their energy policies on c...
Concerns about climate change, diminishing social acceptance of traditional fuels, and technological...
This chapter considers the evolving institutional responses to the challenge of regulating telecoms ...
The present work aspires to provide a comprehensive analysis of the policy developments through whic...
The existing literature explains the emergence of European regulatory networks through the need for ...
Concerns about climate change, diminishing social acceptance of traditional fuels, and technological...
The objective of this paper is to examine the interaction between companies and the changing regulat...
In David Levi-Faur and Eran Vigoda (eds.). International Public Policy and Management: Policy Learni...
Traditionally, the member states have been especially concerned with national sovereignty in matters...
Telecommunications in the past constituted a tightly regulated, nationally oriented policy field. In...