The hard impact of soft co-ordination: emulation, learning, and the convergence of collective labour standards in the EU

Closer than they look at first glance: A systematic review and a research agenda regarding measurement practices for policy learning

“…Similarly, changes in institutional designs and in rule configurations also indicated that learning occurred in policy change processes, as exemplified in a study focusing on urban flood mitigation in Colorado (Witting, 2017; see also Howlett et al, 2017;Panke, 2010, p. 810). In the research stream on policy interdependency, several successful policy adoptions across geographical entities were regularly used as proxies for policy learning (e.g., Kahn-Nisser, 2015;Shipan & Volden, 2014).…”

“…Montpetit and Lachapelle (2017) also explicitly distinguished between the individual-level and subsystem-level analyses of policy learning regarding gas development in British Columbia and Quebec. Third, the methodological implications of the social nature of learning were relatively strong in the reviewed research, with some of the studies explicitly using dyadic data to account for social learning at the meso level (e.g., Howlett et al, 2017) or policy interdependency at the aggregate level (e.g., Kahn-Nisser, 2015;Lundin et al, 2015;Shipan & Volden, 2014).…”

Revisiting patterns in EU regulatory social policy: (still) supporting the market or social goals in their own right?

“…However, coordination does not seem well suited to assess the nature of EU social policy. Research demonstrates increasing skepticism on the OMCs capacity to steer policy (Copeland /Haar 2013;Kahn-Nisser 2015;Kröger 2009). Moreover, the OMCs have been criticized for their focus on market support (Copeland/Daly 2018; Crespy/Vanheuverzwijn 2017; De La Porte/Heins 2015).…”

Beyond legal transposition: regulatory agencies and de facto convergence of EU rail liberalization

“…Following Börzel and Risse (2000: 3), we conceptualize Europeanization as 'a process of institution-building at the European level' that 'impacts upon the member states' by inducing substantial policy change, and ultimately policy convergence, if the researcher is able to observe among EU member states an increased similarity over time (Holzinger 2006, Kahn-Nisser 2015, Paezold and Van Vliet 2014.…”