CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Munro, Sarah Magdalene Tahirih |
|---|---|
| Title | Diverging Paths? Challenges to EU Environmental Policy Implementation in Italy and Poland |
| Summary | This paper aims to investigate the challenges faced by member states in meeting the EUs increasingly ambitious environmental policy legislation, by conducting a comparative study of two choice cases: the rich and old member state Italy, notorious or being a laggard, and the relatively poor and new member state Poland. I aim to identify whether, almost ten years after its accession date, Poland has been able to emerge from the laggard role it was immediately placed into at its date of accession, or if it has fallen victim to similar political and economic challenges as those faced by Italy, despite differences in the two states’ level of industrialization and duration of membership. After analyzing the historical evolution of environmental policy within the EU, Poland and Italy, the three main hypotheses of this thesis emerge: 1) the EU will become increasingly more important for the development of environmental policy within its member states; 2) new member states will likely overperform to meet the EU’s environmental policy ; 3) the shape of the internal polity of a state will be a larger determinant for the progressiveness of a state’s environmental policy, than will its level of income. All three hypotheses are shown to be valid through an in depth analysis of Italy’s and Poland’s performance in the field of environmental policy, using directive notification rates, infringement cases, ruling coalition party platforms, Eurobarometer surveys and data on state expenditures into environmental protection. |
| Supervisor | Csaba, Laszlo |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/munro_sarah.pdf |
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