Adoption of EU Business and Human Rights Policy - The Use of Discretion in the National Transposition of EU Directives

This book explores how and why the transposition of EU directives in the new and contentious policy area 'Business and Human Rights' differs between member states. It reveals the extent to which individual member states are pursuing diverging approaches in dealing with the 'discretionary space' in EU directives, and highlights theoretical and political explanations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and rational choice institutionalism, the book establishes a link between the degree of corporatism in a given political economy and government behaviour in terms of Business and Human Rights policy. Moreover, it identifies political salience within the policy subsystem as a pertinent factor for explaining national transposition outcomes. 

List of contents

Introduction.- Business and Human Rights: A New and Contentious EU Policy Area.- Theoretical Explanations for the Domestic Impact of EU Law 54.- Research Design.- Empirical Analysis I: Transposition of the Directives.- Empirical Analysis II: Explanation of Transposition Variation 183.- Conclusion. 

About the author

Peter Drahn, Ph.D., is a political scientist at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research chiefly focuses on EU compliance in the field of corporate responsibility regulation.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Drahn
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2021
• EAN: 9783030469375
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3046937-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XIX, 266 p. 14 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Series: Contributions to Political Science
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system