TY - CHAP

T1 - A common European asylum system? How variation in Member States’ administrative capacity undermines EU asylum harmonisation

AU - Zaun, Natascha

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Agnieszka Weinar, Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhyznomirska; individual chapters, the contributors.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - This chapter gives an overview over the research on EU asylum policy harmonisation and explains why attempts to harmonise EU asylum policies to date have had little success in practice. It argues that only a group of Member States, the so-called strong regulators, has been effective in shaping EU asylum policies. These states include countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden and have a long regulatory tradition in asylum policies as well as effectively working administrations that allow them to build credible expertise and strong positions for the negotiations. Weak regulators such as Italy and Greece, on the other hand, do not have any of these resources and hence remain rather passive in the negotiations. They subsequently face high levels of misfit between EU and domestic policies. Given their low administrative capacity, these states are unable to implement EU asylum policies.

AB - This chapter gives an overview over the research on EU asylum policy harmonisation and explains why attempts to harmonise EU asylum policies to date have had little success in practice. It argues that only a group of Member States, the so-called strong regulators, has been effective in shaping EU asylum policies. These states include countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden and have a long regulatory tradition in asylum policies as well as effectively working administrations that allow them to build credible expertise and strong positions for the negotiations. Weak regulators such as Italy and Greece, on the other hand, do not have any of these resources and hence remain rather passive in the negotiations. They subsequently face high levels of misfit between EU and domestic policies. Given their low administrative capacity, these states are unable to implement EU asylum policies.

KW - Politics

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U2 - 10.4324/9781315512853-30

DO - 10.4324/9781315512853-30

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85139698730

SN - 9781315512853

SP - 315

EP - 329

BT - The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe

A2 - Weinar, Agnieszka

A2 - Bonjour, Saskia

A2 - Zhyznomirska, Lyubov

PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.

ER -