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LEGAL EUROPEANIZATION: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Author(s) -
MÜLLER WOLFGANG C.,
BOVENS MARK,
CHRISTENSEN JØRGEN GRØNNEGAARD,
JENNY MARCELO,
YESILKAGIT KUTSAL
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01817.x
Subject(s) - legislation , transposition (logic) , member states , political science , law , european union , economics , international trade , philosophy , linguistics
By mid‐2003, the legal orders (the entire bodies of legislation in force) of three EU member states – Austria , Denmark, and The Netherlands – contained between 10.5 and 14.2 per cent of rules devoted to the transposition of EU directives. Only a few ministerial jurisdictions contain more than 20 per cent of Europeanized rules. The member states show remarkable differences in the use of parliamentary versus delegated legislation as a means of transposition. The comparison of the three cases tentatively suggests that different legal traditions and the parliamentary involvement in EU affairs are important factors that account for cross‐national differences.