Explaining implementation deficits through multi-level governance in the EU's new member states: EU limits for arsenic in drinking water in Hungary

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title = "Explaining implementation deficits through multi-level governance in the EU's new member states: EU limits for arsenic in drinking water in Hungary",
abstract = "This paper uses a multi-level governance lens to explore a case of non-compliance with EU legislation in Hungary and expands historical institutionalist explanations of EU laggards. Despite adopting the European Union's (EU's) limit of 10 ppb arsenic in drinking water, parts of Hungary do not comply. To explain this deficit, the paper examines the match between discourse incorporated into policy and held by policy actors in Hungary. Multiple points of mismatch are found that influence implementation because of governance structures, adding specificity to explanations of 'goodness of fit' between EU and national policy.",
keywords = "Sustainability Science, environmental health, Europeanisation, geogenic arsenic, historical institutionalism, policy analysis",
author = "Julia Leventon",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/09640568.2014.916611",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "1137--1153",
journal = "Journal of Environmental Planning and Management",
issn = "0964-0568",
publisher = "Routledge Taylor & Francis Group",
number = "7",

}

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Explaining implementation deficits through multi-level governance in the EU's new member states

T2 - EU limits for arsenic in drinking water in Hungary

AU - Leventon, Julia

PY - 2015/7/3

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N2 - This paper uses a multi-level governance lens to explore a case of non-compliance with EU legislation in Hungary and expands historical institutionalist explanations of EU laggards. Despite adopting the European Union's (EU's) limit of 10 ppb arsenic in drinking water, parts of Hungary do not comply. To explain this deficit, the paper examines the match between discourse incorporated into policy and held by policy actors in Hungary. Multiple points of mismatch are found that influence implementation because of governance structures, adding specificity to explanations of 'goodness of fit' between EU and national policy.

AB - This paper uses a multi-level governance lens to explore a case of non-compliance with EU legislation in Hungary and expands historical institutionalist explanations of EU laggards. Despite adopting the European Union's (EU's) limit of 10 ppb arsenic in drinking water, parts of Hungary do not comply. To explain this deficit, the paper examines the match between discourse incorporated into policy and held by policy actors in Hungary. Multiple points of mismatch are found that influence implementation because of governance structures, adding specificity to explanations of 'goodness of fit' between EU and national policy.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - environmental health

KW - Europeanisation

KW - geogenic arsenic

KW - historical institutionalism

KW - policy analysis

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U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2014.916611

DO - 10.1080/09640568.2014.916611

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 58

SP - 1137

EP - 1153

JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

SN - 0964-0568

IS - 7

ER -

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