Does institutional misfit trigger customisation instead of non-compliance

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6407560
AutoresViktoria Brendler (0000-0002-4309-3468, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany), Eva Thomann (0000-0001-6837-4787, University of Konstanz, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume47
Fascículo3
Páginas515-542
Data de publicação2024-04-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402382.2023.2166734
OpenAlexW4318985977
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas50

This article analyses the role of institutional misfit in why member states customise European Union (EU) renewable energy (RE) policies when implementing them. Institutional misfit theory posits that member states only adjust to EU policies when the adaptation pressure remains moderate and national actors’ policy preferences align. Conversely, this article tests the argument that member states manage institutional misfit by adjusting – customising – EU policies, that is, through vertical EU policy change rather than domestic change. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the article compares the customisation of EU Directive 2009/28/EC in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Surprisingly, results suggest that institutional misfit is not a necessary condition for customised implementation. Instead, when high institutional fit meets high salience, member states may issue substantively more ambitious policies than the EU requires. Conversely, when high institutional fit meets low salience, member states have no impetus to customise EU rules

Argument (complex analysis · Business · Directive · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · European union · Institutional change · Institutional theory · Management · Member state · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Salience (neuroscience · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research