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.

本研究聚焦欧盟（EU）指令的国内转化（transposition）议题，重点探讨否决权参与者（veto players）的各类概念及其对转化进程速度的影响。本项目的研究成果已发表于Bernard Steunenberg与Mark Rhinard（2010）的《欧盟成员国欧洲法的国内转化：程序与政治之间》，刊载于《欧洲政治学评论（European Political Science Review, EPSR）》2卷第3期，页码范围为495至520。我们可基于该刊论文的摘要对本项目的研究成果进行归纳：本文阐明了欧洲法实施的关键阶段——欧盟（EU）指令的国内转化环节。指令必须被转化为国内政策方能落实欧洲法的要求，但多数国家主管机构均面临显著的转化难题。正因如此，在欧盟非合规性相关的整体研究议程中，指令转化研究已成为核心关注点。本文梳理了若干主流解释变量，同时指出现有实证检验所得结果有时存在矛盾，并提出了一种将指令转化视为主要发生在部委机构内部而非跨政府体系的进程的分析路径。通过在实证分析中引入与这类国内进程相关的变量，本文展示了该分析路径如何助力解释成员国转化欧盟（EU）指令的具体方式。