Esther Versluis – författare

Compliance Promotion in the European Union offers a comprehensive and theory-driven analysis of policy implementation and compliance in the EU, addressing long-standing debates about how to close the gap between EU law on the books and the law in action. It starts out by providing an empirical diagnosis and conceptual synthesis of EU implementation research, a field marked by fragmented outlets, competing theoretical approaches, and methodological pluralism. By systematically reviewing and integrating quantitative and qualitative scholarship, the book clarifies why assessments of EU implementation and compliance have diverged so sharply and why cumulative knowledge has remained limited. In doing so, it guides readers through decades of scattered research and develops a more coherent understanding of the nature, causes, and evolution of the EU's implementation deficit.Based on this first diagnostic part, the book then maps and assesses the EU's compliance promotion architecture. It develops a multi-arena, multi-paradigm theoretical framework that brings together managerial, constructivist, and rationalist approaches to compliance promotion, and it analyses how these strategies interact through an extended escalation model operating in vertical, horizontal, and domestic arenas. Building on this framework, the book evaluates the EU's actual compliance promotion architecture, assessing the effectiveness, conditions, and interrelations of its instruments. Moving beyond a narrow focus on failure, it highlights what works in practice and why. The analysis culminates in practical policy recommendations and a forward-looking research agenda aimed at fostering more cumulative and policy-relevant scholarship on EU implementation and compliance.

Readers are provided with a practical insight into how to analyze policies and policy-making in the EU. Using case studies to deepen readers' understanding, this book examines the various stages of the policy process - from the moment the issue reaches the agenda through to drafting, implementation and evaluation.

Readers are provided with a practical insight into how to analyze policies and policy-making in the EU. Using case studies to deepen readers' understanding, this book examines the various stages of the policy process - from the moment the issue reaches the agenda through to drafting, implementation and evaluation.

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk regulation from across the world to explore risk regulation in a trade context. The interdisciplinary collaboration provided in this book is needed to address the trade versus risk balancing act both in empirical and theoretical terms.Although it is obvious that legal, social, cultural and political matters interfere with risk regulation, analyses in which these interferences are adequately considered are lacking. In one way or another, all chapters in this book address the issue of scientific uncertainty, the governance arrangements around expertise or both. Issues such as transparency, trust, legitimacy and precaution also become particularly important given the political, multi-actor and multi-level governance characteristics of the balancing act between trade and risk regulation. This book highlights and examines these concerns, going on to provide a critical assessment of the EU regulation of trade and risk both from external and internal perspectives. This book’s exploration of the balancing act between trade and risk regulation will be increasingly important to students of law and social sciences as they move to a shared, interdisciplinary understanding.