Environmental governance in Croatia and Macedonia: institutional creation and evolution

Andrew Taylor

Environment and Planning C, 2015, vol. 33, issue 5, 969-985

Abstract: The environment acquis are, by common consent, amongst the most technically and politically demanding that a state aspiring to EU membership must transpose. SEE states confront a major ‘gap’ between the policies and institutions they have and what they must achieve. Transposition requires the creation of policy networks involving a broad range of state and non-state actors. This paper examines the efforts of Croatia and Macedonia to adapt to EU environmental policy. Using social network analysis the paper focuses on institutional creation and evolution and argues that effective governance depends on the prior creation of effective hierarchies. Networks exist but capacities and capabilities are in short supply and this reinforces the centre and government over civil society.

Keywords: environmental governance; environmental politics; Europeanisation; European Union; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15605924

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