172 research outputs found
Replication Data for Thomann, Eva (2018). Customized implementation of European Union food safety policy: United in diversity? Palgrave Macmillan, International Series on Public Policy.
No full textThis is the online appendix for Thomann, Eva (2018). Customized implementation of European Union food safety policy: United in diversity? Palgrave Macmillan, International Series on Public Policy.
It contains:
1. The raw material (reports) containing the qualitative evidence that built the basis for coding
2. Replication files (datasets and R codes) for chapters 4, 5 and 6
3. A PDF file containing supplementary tables and figures
Replication Data for Thomann, Eva (2018). Customized implementation of European Union food safety policy: United in diversity? Palgrave Macmillan, International Series on Public Policy.
No full textThis is the online appendix for Thomann, Eva (2018). Customized implementation of European Union food safety policy: United in diversity? Palgrave Macmillan, International Series on Public Policy.
It contains:
1. The raw material (reports) containing the qualitative evidence that built the basis for coding
2. Replication files (datasets and R codes) for chapters 4, 5 and 6
3. A PDF file containing supplementary tables and figures
Replication Data for: Thomann, Eva, van Engen, Nadine and Lars Tummers. 2018. The necessity of discretion: a behavioral evaluation of bottom-up implementation theory. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
No full textSupplementary online appendix
Raw dataset 1 (healthcare) and raw dataset 2 (teachers)
R replication codes for 2 datasets and 2 calibration strategies for each datase
Replication Data for: Thomann, Eva, van Engen, Nadine and Lars Tummers. 2018. The necessity of discretion: a behavioral evaluation of bottom-up implementation theory. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
No full textSupplementary online appendix
Raw dataset 1 (healthcare) and raw dataset 2 (teachers)
R replication codes for 2 datasets and 2 calibration strategies for each datase
Supplemental Material, SMR-16-0043_Supplementary_material_R2 - Designing Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Approaches, Challenges, and Tools
No full text Supplemental Material, SMR-16-0043_Supplementary_material_R2 for Designing Research With
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Approaches, Challenges, and Tools by Eva Thomann
and Martino Maggetti in Sociological Methods & Research </p
Moving beyond legal compliance: Innovative approaches to EU multilevel implementation
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Research on implementation in the European Union (EU) is characterized by a strong focus on
legal conformance with EU policy. However, this focus has been criticized for insufficiently
accounting for the implications of the EU’s multilevel governance structure, thus providing an
incomplete picture of EU implementation, its diversity and practice. The contributions of this
collection represent a shift toward a more performance-oriented perspective on EU
implementation as problem-solving. They approach implementation fundamentally as a
process of interpretation of superordinate law by actors who are embedded within multiple
contexts arising from the coexistence of dynamics of Europeanization, on the one hand, and
what has been termed ‘domestication’, on the other. Moving beyond legal compliance, the
contributions provide new evidence on the diversity of domestic responses to EU policy, the
roles and motivations of actors implementing EU policy, and the ‘black box’ of EU law in action
and its enforcement.Eva Thomann gratefully acknowledges financial support by the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [grant numbers P2BEP1-162077 and P300P1_171479]
The long and winding road to fiscal adjustment: how the IMF judges austerity programmes
No full textIMF judgements on whether government austerity programmes can be successfully implemented are carefully followed by international financial markets. Markus Hinterleitner, Fritz Sager and Eva Thomann analyse the way the organisation has judged the credibility of austerity programmes in 14 European countries. They find that the IMF considers implementation credibility in its evaluations of austerity programs, and uses these to push its own agenda
Accountability of Public Servants at the Street Level
No full textPublic servants are accountable to the public – as their name suggests. However, the question of accountability is not as clear as it seems. Public servants working at the street level of government bureaucracy enjoy discretion in the implementation of public policies (Thomann, van Engen and Tummers, J Public Adm Res Theory 28(4):583–601, 2018a). In the context of regulatory governance, policy implementers more often than not enforce regulation and hence are regulators at the street level. They use discretion to make decisions that ultimately define policies and regulation; and they do so along different reference systems (Thomann, Hupe, and Sager F, Governance 31:299–319, 2018b). Lipsky (Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1980, 2010) famously conceptualized the resulting dilemmas for this stratum of public servants. Maynard-Moody and Musheno (J Public Adm Res Theory 10:329–358, 2000) capture the core dilemma of those public servants’ accountability when interacting with clients with the distinction between “state agents” primarily following the law and “citizen agents” first of all addressing clients’ needs. In their accountability regimes framework, Hupe and Hill (Public Adm 85:85–102, 2007) introduce profession as third key reference institution, alongside state and society. In the course of new modes of governance, in particular contexts, private actors have gained an additional role as implementation agents. Sager et al. (Public Manage Rev 16:481–502, 2014) and Thomann et al. (2018) therefore extend the accountability regimes framework with market as central in the fourth accountability regime at the street level. The chapter presents the extended accountability regimes framework, illustrates it with empirical cases, and discusses regulatory and policy implications of the accountability dilemmas of street-level implementers
Innovative Approaches to EU Multilevel Implementation: Moving beyond legal compliance
No full textMulti-level governance systems like the European Union (EU) calibrate integration with member state discretion in order to implement common, yet context-sensitive solutions to shared policy problems. Research on implementation in the EU typically focuses on legal compliance with EU policy. However, this focus gives us an incomplete picture of EU implementation, its diversity and practice. The contributions of this collection represent a shift toward a more performance-oriented perspective on EU implementation as problem-solving. They approach implementation fundamentally as a process of interpretation of superordinate law by actors who are embedded within multiple contexts arising from the coexistence of dynamics of Europeanization, on the one hand, and what has been termed ‘domestication’, on the other. Moving beyond legal compliance, the contributions provide new evidence on the diversity of domestic responses to EU policy, the roles and motivations of actors implementing EU policy, and the ‘black box’ of EU law in action and its enforcement. By reassessing the relative importance of EU policy and domestic factors and actors for the outcomes of EU implementation, the results give insight into on the nuanced interplay between Europeanization and domestication forces, useful for both EU researchers and practitioners
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