Replication Data for: The transposition of European law in EU member states: between process and politics

In this project we focused on the transposition of EU directives in which we focused on the role of various concepts of veto players and their impact on the speed of transposition processes. The results of this project were published as Bernard Steunenberg and Mark Rhinard (2010) The transposition of European Law in EU member states: Between process and politics, European Political Science Review 2(3): 495-520. The results of the project can be summarized based on the abstract of our article in EPSR: This paper illuminates a critical stage of the implementation of European law: the transposition of European Union (EU) directives. Directives must be transposed into national policies in order to give effect to European law, yet most national authorities experience considerable transposition difficulties. For this reason, the study of transposition has become a focal point within the broader research agenda on non-compliance in the European Union. Highlighting several popular explanatory variables but noting the sometimes contradictory results that follow from empirical testing, this paper outlines an approach that views transposition as a process taking place largely within ministerial agencies rather than across government systems. By using variables related to these domestic processes in our empirical analysis, the paper shows how such an approach can help to explain the way in which member states transpose EU directives.