International Series on Public Policy: The Regulatory Shift in Natural Gas Market Policy

Herweg, Nicole

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-03-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319493992

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49400-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 264