Subjects:

EU Law

Contents:

1. Introduction: law and compliance at different levels Michael Zurn

2. The analysis of compliance with international rules: definitions, variables and methodology Jurgen Neyer and Dieter Wolf

3. State aid control at the national, European and international level Dieter Wolf

4. Domestic limits of supranational law comparing compliance with European and international foodstuffs regulations Jurgen Neyer

5. Politics of intergovernmental redistribution: comparing compliance with European and federal redistributive regulations Jurgen Neyer

6. Conclusions: the conditions of compliance Michael Zurn and Jurgen Neyer

7. Compliance research in legal perspectives Christian Joerges.

This book argues that Europeanization and globalization have led to ever-more intensive legalization at transnational level. What accounts for compliance beyond the nation-state? The authors tackle this question by comparing compliance with regulations that have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels of governance. They test compliance with rules at the national level, at the regional level (EU), and at a global level (WTO), finding that in fact the EU has higher levels of compliance than both international and national rules. The authors argue that this is because the EU has a higher level of legalization, combined with effective monitoring mechanisms and sanctions. In this respect it seems that the European Union has indeed achieved a high level of legalization and compliance, though the authors add that this achievement does not settle the related queries with the legitimacy of transnational governance and law.