Subnational Authorities and the European Union

Dr. Stephan Lutzenberger has been working as a researcher and lecturer at the Center for European Integration, part of the Otto-Suhr-Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction: Noncompliance in a multilevel system.- Subnational authorities and compliance with EU legislation – a conceptual framework.- Politics beats polity: Self-rule, shared rule, and member states’ compliance.- Policy beats polity: Complexity, misfit, and subnational authorities’ compliance.- Conclusion: The need for multilevel cooperation.