The Greening of a Polity? The Europeanization of Environmental Policy-Making in Spain

In: South European society & politics, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 65-92

Abstract

Explores the conditions under which European policy making may change the domestic structures of member states. It is hypothesized that European policies are likely to trigger domestic change if (1) they do not fit corresponding national policies & (2) they provoke sufficient pressure for adaptation "from below & from above" to induce public authorities to make the necessary legal & administrative changes to effectively implement them. Such changes may lead to a redistribution of political resources among domestic actors, producing, in turn, new forms of relationship between different levels of government as well as between public & societal actors. The implementation of five European Union environmental policies in Spain is considered as a test case for this model of domestic structural change. 1 Figure, 25 References. Adapted from the source document.