Differentiation through flexibility in implementation: Strategic and substantive uses of discretion in EU directives
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F23%3A00130442" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/23:00130442 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14651165221126072" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14651165221126072</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14651165221126072" target="_blank" >10.1177/14651165221126072</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Differentiation through flexibility in implementation: Strategic and substantive uses of discretion in EU directives
Original language description
This article analyses the extent to which European Union (EU) directives allow for variation in domestic implementation. Such flexibility in implementation may be used to deal with heterogeneity among member states. Based on an original dataset of 164 directives adopted between 2006 and 2015, we find that the use of flexibility is associated more with efforts to accommodate differences between national policies (substantive use of discretion) than with attempts to facilitate the decision-making process in and between EU legislative institutions (strategic use of discretion). Although flexibility may be used to address some of the same concerns that drive differentiated integration (DI), the situations in which each is most likely to be used are distinct because they approach the divergences between member states differently.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Union Politics
ISSN
1465-1165
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
102-120
UT code for WoS article
000859264500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85139162095