Pincers and Prestige: Explaining the Implementation of EU Gender Equality Legislation

Vleuten, J.M. van der

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“…Indeed, such patterns could be found in individual cases, although it already transpired in the original studies that there are cases where other, more actor-related variables had to be added to the parsimonious misfit model (Duina 1997(Duina , 1999Duina and Blithe 1999;Lenschow 1998, 2000a;Knill 2001;Börzel 2000Börzel , 2003a. Some other studies also found evidence that conformed to this original specification of the misfit argument (Bailey 2002;Dimitrova and Rhinard 2005;van der Vleuten 2005;Di Lucia and Kronsell 2010;Siegel 2011). However, several studies from the qualitative camp presented evidence that placed doubt on the misfit argument (Falkner et al 2002(Falkner et al , 2005Treib 2003aTreib ,b, 2004Treib , 2008Bähr 2006;Mastenbroek and Kaeding 2006;Mastenbroek and van Keulen 2006;Liefferink et al 2011;Bourblanc et al 2013).…”

Section: Domestic Factors Related To Member States' Willingness To Comentioning

confidence: 93%

“…However, there is wide disagreement on whether interest group activities are beneLiving Reviews in European Governance http://www.livingreviews.org/lreg-2014-1 ficial or detrimental to timely and correct transposition, or whether they are irrelevant altogether. Several qualitative studies have shown that groups whose members profit from a particular piece of EU legislation can help overcome the resistance of unwilling governments or administrations by means of lobbying, public shaming, litigation, or lodging complaints with the European Commission (Börzel 2000(Börzel , 2003a(Börzel , 2006van der Vleuten 2005;Panke 2007;Slepcevic 2009). Conversely, other qualitative studies have argued that interest groups whose members are affected negatively by a given EU directive may also hamper domestic adaptation to EU policies (Risse et al 2001;Héritier 2001;Treib 2004;Falkner et al 2005: 303-309).…”

Section: Domestic Factors Related To Member States' Willingness To Comentioning

confidence: 99%

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Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs

Treib¹

2014

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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This essay takes stock of the literature on how European Union policies are being put into practice by the member states. It first provides an overview of the historical evolution of the field. After a relatively late start in the mid-1980s, the field has meanwhile developed into one of the growth industries within EU research. The paper identifies four waves of EU implementation scholarship, each with its own theoretical, empirical and methodological focus. In the second part, the review discusses the most important theoretical, empirical and methodological lessons to be drawn from existing studies. Four conclusions emanate from the analysis of existing EU implementation research. First, the literature has focused heavily on the transposition of EU directives, while comparatively little is known about issues of enforcement and application of both directives and regulations or about member states' reactions to negative integration. Second, scholars studying the transposition of directives seem to agree that we need to address factors that influence member states' willingness and capacities to comply. The main task to be accomplished by future research is to establish under what conditions which configurations of factors prevail, especially with regard to sectoral differences. Third, more energy needs to be devoted to systematic research on the phase of practical implementation, and this research should make more use of theoretical insights from domestic implementation research as well as from management and enforcement approaches. Fourth, quantitative transposition research will have to improve the data it uses to measure the dependent variable. Scholars should explore better data sources and invest more energy in collecting their own data on transposition timing and correctness. Research on application and enforcement, on the other hand, needs to go beyond case studies and instead search for or produce data with which the practical phase of implementation can be analysed on a broader, more comparative scale.

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Section: Domestic Factors Related To Member States' Willingness To Comentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Domestic Factors Related To Member States' Willingness To Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs

Treib¹

2014

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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“…have shown how adding a level 'beyond the state' makes it possible to put pressure on unwilling states from above and below simultaneously and to overcome the blockage at national level by a boomerang action. This same mechanism is applicable at the regional level, where a regional organization and domestic groups can put double pressure on a state (see also the idea of 'pincers'; Van der Vleuten 2005.…”

Section: Introducing Gender At the Regional Levelmentioning

confidence: 89%

Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

Vleuten¹,

Eerdewijk²,

Roggeband³

2014

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Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UKThis timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics.The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women's movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality.Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the series editors: Johanna Kantola (johanna.kantola@helsinki.fi) and Judith Squires (judith.squires@bristol. ac.uk).

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“…National "gender regimes" -constructed through state preferences, values, institutions, and political dynamics -can have a significant impact on compliance with regional-level statutes (Macrae 2006, 529;van der Vleuten 2007;Zippel 2006). 3 The complexity of national contexts and the ideological reframing required by feminist demands make policies challenging gender relations difficult to achieve (van der Vleuten 2005).…”

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Re(gion)alizing Women's Human Rights in Latin America

Friedman

2009

Pol & Gen

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Between 1993 and 2000, nearly every democracy in Latin America passed a law prohibiting domestic violence. Between 2001 and 2006, five countries strengthened their legislation, and Brazil passed its first law. What explains these advances with respect to women's rights? While other work has focused on domestic or international factors, this article brings to light the role of the region. It reveals that the two inter-American women's rights organizations have been active in both establishing regional norms and promoting their national adoption and implementation. While this suggests that regional governance can promote women's social rights, there is no automatic institutionalization of these norms. Case studies on Chile and Brazil illustrate the impact of national context.

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Pincers and Prestige: Explaining the Implementation of EU Gender Equality Legislation

Cited by 32 publications

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Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs

Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs

Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

Re(gion)alizing Women's Human Rights in Latin America

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