The implementation of administrative burden reduction policy: Mechanisms and contexts in the study of Europeanization

Abstract:

The article analyzes how Administrative Burden Reduction has been implemented in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Using an institutional processualist approach we show how this policy instrument has been implemented differently in these countries depending on the concatenation of mechanisms activated by the interplay between agency and structure.

The article thus contributes both to the Europeanization literature and to the institutional processualist approach, which has so far only been applied to single country cases.