Compliance with EU directives: insights from international relations and comparative politics
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of European Public Policy
- Vol. 5 (1) , 17-37
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13501768880000021
Abstract
The European Union (EU) has issued hundreds if not thousands of directives and decisions over the last twenty-five years. Yet questions of compliance — to what extent do states comply, which states are likely to comply, what patterns of compliance exist within and across areas of regulation? — have not been extensively investigated and remain poorly understood. This article argues that compliance is a matter of state choice, and reviews current theoretical writings in international relations and comparative politics in order to better identify reasons for states' choices to comply with EU directives.Keywords
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