1st Edition
Microfoundations of Policy Implementation Towards European Best Practices
By Phedon Nicolaides
Copyright 2013
144 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
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The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states. This book examines how policy implementation may be improved. It explains the nature of policy mistakes, proceeds to consider how individual public authorities and organizations can avoid making policy mistakes and then, in the light of its findings,... Read more
1 Introduction: The main issues 2 Problem defined: Policy errors 3 A bit of a theory 4 Anatomy of errors 5 Avoidable errors 6 Can organizations make mistakes? 7 Developing organizational capacity for error avoidance 8 Rules and norms in policy implementation 9 Incentives for error avoidance 10 Capacity for policy implementation 11 Obligations of EU membership 12 Synthesis and recommendations: Policy experimentation and ‘nudging’ public administrations 13 Concluding remarks
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Phedon Nicolaides
