Who let the dogs out? The effect of parliamentary scrutiny on compliance with EU law

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ID6289944
AutoresDaniel Finke (0000-0002-9028-8188), Tanja Dannwolf
Ano2015
Volume22
Fascículo8
Páginas1127-1147
Data de publicação2015-09-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2014.1000364
OpenAlexW1969053466
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas38

Recently, it has been argued that the scrutiny of European law proposal by national parliaments contributes to speeding up the implementation of EU law. To test this argument, we study the effect of parliamentary scrutiny on Germany's compliance with all directives adopted between 1999 and 2012. The results are mixed: on the one hand, parliamentary scrutiny successfully transfers necessary deliberations from the implementation stage to the policy-making stage. As a consequence, we observe faster implementation of complex and controversial policies. On the other hand, parliamentary scrutiny carries the risk of triggering conflict and of forcing early commitments by actors who might otherwise have remained passive observers. As a consequence, parliamentary scrutiny may even delay implementation of EU law by waking the proverbial ‘sleeping dogs

Argument (complex analysis · Compliance (psychology · Law and economics · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · European and International Law Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Medicine · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology