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Rhetoric or Reality? ‘New Governance’ in EU Environmental Policy
Author(s) -
Holzinger Katharina,
Knill Christoph,
Schäfer Ansgar
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0386.2006.00323.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , context (archaeology) , rhetoric , control (management) , core (optical fiber) , political science , public administration , political economy , sociology , economics , management , engineering , history , linguistics , telecommunications , philosophy , archaeology
When scrutinising the literature on EU environmental policy, it becomes apparent that there has been a comprehensive transition in underlying governance ideas during the last two decades. At the core of these changes is the abolition of traditional patterns of interventionist command‐and‐control regulation in favour of economic instruments and ‘context‐oriented’ governance. In view of these developments, this article has two objectives: first, it looks into which causes and factors initiated these discussions; second, it analyses the effects these reform ideas had on actual patterns of governance. As will be shown, changes in governance ideas are only partially expressed in changes in policy instruments.