Law and Governance in Postnational Europe: Compliance Beyond the Nation-State (Themes in European Governance)

Publisher's Description: Arguing That Legal Rules Can Be Implemented Beyond National Boundaries, This Volume Examines Compliance Beyond The Nation-state. Four Contributors Compare Compliance With Regulations That Have Been Formulated In A Very Similar Way At Different Levels Of Governance. They Demonstrate That Nation States Do Not Necessarily Display The Best Compliance Records And That A High Degree Of Legalization, Verification And Sanctioning Systems Seem To Be More Important. Introduction: Law And Compliance At Different Levels / Michael Zürn -- The Analysis Of Compliance With International Rules : Definitions, Variables, And Methodology / Jürgen Neyer And Dieter Wolf -- State Aid Control At The National, European, And International Level / Dieter Wolf -- Domestic Limits Of Supranational Law : Comparing Compliance With European And International Foodstuffs Regulations / Jürgen Neyer -- Politics Of Intergovernmental Redistribution : Comparing Compliance With European And Federal Redistributive Regulations / Jürgen Neyer -- Conclusions : The Conditions Of Compliance / Michael Zürn And Jürgen Neyer -- Compliance Research In Legal Perspectives / Christian Joerges. Edited By Michael Zürn, And Christian Joerges. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 262-292) And Index. This 2005 book argues that Europeanization and globalization have led to ever-more intensive legalization at transnational level. What accounts for compliance beyond the nation-state? The authors tackle this question by comparing compliance with regulations that have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels of governance. They test compliance with rules at the national level, at the regional level (EU), and at a global level (WTO), finding that in fact the EU has higher levels of compliance than both international and national rules. The authors argue that this is because the EU has a higher level of legalization, combined with effective monitoring mechanisms and sanctions. In this respect it seems that the European Union has indeed achieved a high level of legalization and compliance, though the authors add that this achievement does not settle the related queries with the legitimacy of transnational governance and law. What accounts for compliance beyond the nation-state? Comparing compliance with regulations that have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels of governance, the authors demonstrate that verification and sanctioning systems seem to be more important than the presence of an agent that is able to enforce rules