
European Union Policy-Making
The Regulatory Shift in Natural Gas Market Policy
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About this book
This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes. It systematically defines and identifies functional equivalents for all of the framework's core concepts at the EU level and extends the framework in order to explain agenda-setting and decision-making. Furthermore, the book derives a set of explicit hypotheses to empirically assess the extent to which the (modified) framework is able to explain timing, agenda prominence, and policy change (or a lack thereof) for the EU natural gas directives passed in 1998, 2003, and 2009. The analysis documents that the framework is well-suited to explain the EU policy process in general and reveals where additional theoretical refinements are required.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Theoretical Approach to the Policy Process: The Multiple Streams Framework
- Chapter 3: The European Natural Gas Market and Its Regulation
- Chapter 4: The First Gas Directive Process
- Chapter 5: The Second Gas Directive Process
- Chapter 6: The Third Gas Directive Process
- Chapter 7: Conclusion
- Annex I: Structure of the Gas Directives
- Annex II: Articles of the Gas Directives
- Annex III: Contributors to Meetings of the European Gas Regulatory Forum
- Index