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A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states, it is often assumed that there is an overall trend towards increasingly similar policies across countries. Comparative research on the domestic impact of globalization

Die Umweltpolitik, die zunächst als politisch unbedeutendes Anhängsel der wirtschaftlichen Integration betrachtet wurde, ist zu einem zentralen Politikbereich der EU geworden. Das Ziel des Buches ist es, den Zusammenhängen auf den Grund zu gehen. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei folgende Aspekte: Wie kann man sich die beachtliche Zunahme umweltpolitischer Aktivitäten auf europäischer Ebene erklären? Was sind die zentralen Inhalte und Steuerungsmuster der EU-Umweltpolitik? Wie ist es um ihre Leistungsfähigkeit und Wirksamkeit bestellt? Welche Faktoren beeinflussen ihre Formulierung und Implementation? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, die Umsetzung europäischer Vorgaben auf der nationalen Ebene zu verbessern?

"This book examines the rise and agency of International Organizations (IOs) and their bureaucratic bodies - the International Public Administrations (IPAs) - as a reflection of an ongoing transfer of political authority and power from the domestic to the international level. It shows that IPAs represent actors per se, with autonomy and resources that allow them to exert an independent influence on global policy-making processes and outputs. Providing a combination of novel conceptual lenses and research design to capture IPAs as an empirical phenomenon, the book takes an open, theoretically and methodologically diverse approach to show that IPAs are far from being negligible actors in global public policy and must be taken seriously as actors in policy-making beyond the nation state. This book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners in Public Policy and Public Administration, International Relations, International Political Economy, as well as Organizational Studies"--