The Transposition of European Law in EU Member States: Between Process and Politics
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...Many studies use quantitative data on the transposition of EU directives as a compliance measure (e.g. Steunenberg and Rhinard 2010)....
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...We follow other research that measures public opinion as the percentage of respondents who believe that integration is ‘a good thing’ for their country (see Kaeding, 2006; Mbaye, 2001; Steunenberg and Rhinard, 2010) by only focusing on negative assessments...
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...We follow other research that measures public opinion as the percentage of respondents who believe that integration is ‘a good thing’ for their country (see Kaeding, 2006; Mbaye, 2001; Steunenberg and Rhinard, 2010) by only focusing on negative assessments toward the EU....
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...…opposition seem to be influential factors, but transposition studies continue to struggle with ‘inconclusive’, ‘contradictory’ or ‘inconsistent’ findings concerning the factors explaining timely and correct transposition (Steunenberg and Rhinard 2010; Toshkov 2010; Toshkov et al. 2010; Treib 2008)....
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...A lack of experience with transposition has already been identified as an explanatory factor for delayed and incorrect transposition (Berglund et al. 2006; Steunenberg and Rhinard 2010)....
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...Sensitivity to contextual specificities can provide firmer conclusions regarding timely and correct transposition (Steunenberg and Rhinard 2010)....
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...A misspecification of this hazard rate, however, has severe consequences for the estimates of the covariates (see Box-Steffensmeier and Jones, 2004: 47–48)....
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...A further examination based on Harrell’s rho for each covariate (Box-Steffensmeier and Jones, 2004: 135) confirms that there is no reason to expect that the assumption of proportionality is not satisfied....
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...A shared frailty model (see Box-Steffensmeier and Jones, 2004: 146–148) was used to test whether such effects occur....
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...Empirical work, however, shows that neither distinct domestic norms nor resistance from institutional ‘veto players’, as inspired the work of Tsebelis (2002), provide sufficient explanation for transposition delays....
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...Based on Tsebelis’ (2002) veto player theory, the number of ‘formal’ or legislative veto players has been used in several studies....
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...Those players are not limited to actors occupying ‘formal’ positions in national legislative processes, such as lawmakers or political parties, however (Tsebelis, 2002: 19)....
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...This perspective should give pause for thought as to the appropriateness of one widely used approach to explaining transposition: veto player theory (Tsebelis, 2002)....
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...Existing indices, such as the veto player index proposed by Schmidt (1996) and Tsebelis (2005), focus only on the legislative stage.5 The decision-making processes within ministries and cabinets work differently....
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