Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States

ISBN: 9780521615136 出版年：2005 页码：420 Gerda Falkner Oliver Treib Miriam Hartlapp Simone Leiber Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Introduction: flexible EU governance in domestic practice 2. Theorising the domestic impact of EU law: the state of the art and beyond 3. EU social policy over time: the role of Directive 4. The Employment Contract Information Directive: a small but useful social complement to the internal market 5. The Pregnant Workers Directive: European social policy between protection and employability 6. The Working Time Directive: European standards taken hostage by domestic politics 7. The Young Workers Directive: a safety net with holes 8. The Parental Leave Directive: compulsory policy innovation and voluntary over-implementation 9. The Part-time Work Directive: a facilitator of national reforms 10. Voluntary reforms triggered by the Directives 11. The EU Commission and (non-)compliance in the Member States 12. Beyond policy change: convergence of national public-private relations? 13. Implementation across countries and Directive 14. Why do Member States fail to comply? Testing the hypotheses suggested in the literature 15. Making sense of compliance patterns: a typology 16. Conclusions: myth and reality of 'social Europe' References.