Adapting to EU multi-level governance. Regional and environmental policies in cohesion and CEE countries

The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularly in the regional and environmental policy areas. The work conceptualizes policy learning and institutional and policy adaptation within the EU system of governance and draws lessons from the experience of previous waves of enlargement-cohesion countries (Ireland, Portugal and Greece). In doing so, the book makes an important contribution to the literature on the transformation of domestic policy-making structures, as a result of the increasing Europeanization of public policy, as well as on the conceptual tools, explanatory variables and mechanisms determining this process.

Contents:

Theoretical Framework and Methodological Approach: EU enlargement and multi-level governance in European public policy-making: actors, institutions and learning - Christos J. Paraskevopoulos

Domestic Governance Structures in Regional and Environmental Policies: National Case Studies: Multi-level governance versus state centralization in Greece - Leeda Demetropoulou et al.

The challenge of multi-level governance and Europeanization in Ireland - Nicholas Rees et al.

Portugal: domestic patterns of governance, societal forces and the limits of Europeanization - Helena Rato et al.

Governance in regional and environmental policies in Hungary: challenges of Europeanization and adaptation - Péter Futó et al.

Between institutional legacies and the challenges of Europeanization: governance and learning in regional and environmental policies in Poland - Aleksandra Jewtuchowicz and Malgorzata Czernielewska-Rutkowska

Europeanization of policy-making and domestic governance structures in regional policy: cohesion and CEE countries - Nicholas Rees and Christos J. Paraskevopoulos

Europeanization of policy-making and domestic governance structures in environmental (waste management) policy: cohesion and CEE countries - Markantonis Vasillis et al.

Coping with multi-level governance: patterns of learning and adaptation in public policy-making in cohesion and CEE countries - Christos J. Paraskevopoulos

Domestic governance structures and policy learning East and West: the limits of Europeanization - Panagiotis Getimis et al.