Productive farms – polluted water? Party political conflict about the implementation of the nitrates directive in Germany
| Titel: | Productive farms – polluted water? Party political conflict about the implementation of the nitrates directive in Germany |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Freiburg : Universität, 2020 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Hochschulschrift: | Masterarbeit, Universität Freiburg, 2020 |
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This empirical observation forms the starting point of my research. The following thesis investigates why the German political decision-makers have repeatedly failed to produce timely and sufficient pol-icy outputs to comply with the European Nitrates Directives. Existing scientific literature points to the importance of party politics for policy responses to aquatic nitrate contamination. On that account, my thesis traces the German transposition of the Nitrates Directive between 1991 and 2018 with a focus on the policy process within the formal decision-making bodies of the national state, and the political parties operating within these decision-making bodies.
In terms of theoretical framework, this research combines insights from cleavage theory, the Punctu-ated Equilibrium Framework and the EU implementation literature. Methodologically, it consists of a case study and analyses a variety of official documents (inter alia accounts of legislative debates, mo-tions, interpellations, bills and court judgments) with the aid of both qualitative and quantitative tech-niques of data analysis.
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