Managing compliance in a multi-level polity: the case of the european union

• Autores: Peter Clinton
• Directores de la Tesis: Javier Arregui Moreno (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2019
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Nuria Font Borràs (presid.), Carlos Closa Montero (secret.), Juan Antonio Mayoral Díaz-Asensio (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• Materias:
  • Ciencia política
    • Administración publica
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• Resumen

  • This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may not be achieved. Non-compliance may even undermine the stability of a political system in which over half a billion citizens reside. While an EU compliance literature has made important strides in understanding why MS non-compliance occurs, there are still important gaps in our knowledge. This thesis identifies and addresses three of these gaps. Firstly, I explore the determinants of sub-state non-compliance. Secondly, I explore the functioning of the EU enforcement mechanism (infringement proceedings) by testing for case-level explanations for why some infringements reach adjudication by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Thirdly, I investigate the Commission’s use of discretion during this infringement procedure, around the timing of when it refers an infringement case to the ECJ and the duration pre-trial settlement bargaining. The results of the three papers provide innovative and relevant insights to not only the EU compliance literature but also contributes to ongoing debates in international relations, judicial politics, public administration and wider governance literatures.