Explaining implementation deficits through multi-level governance in the EU's new member states: EU limits for arsenic in drinking water in Hungary

Julia Leventon

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2015, vol. 58, issue 7, 1137-1153

Abstract: This paper uses a multi-level governance lens to explore a case of non-compliance with EU legislation in Hungary and expands historical institutionalist explanations of EU laggards. Despite adopting the European Union's (EU's) limit of 10 ppb arsenic in drinking water, parts of Hungary do not comply. To explain this deficit, the paper examines the match between discourse incorporated into policy and held by policy actors in Hungary. Multiple points of mismatch are found that influence implementation because of governance structures, adding specificity to explanations of 'goodness of fit' between EU and national policy.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.916611

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