Implementing EU Policies: Institutions, Actors, and Value Conflicts

Abstract

This panel focuses on the implementation phase of EU policymaking, highlighting how institutional complexity, administrative structures, and value-based conflicts shape policy outcomes. Contributions address the distributive effects of legislative complexity, the role of target groups, organizational adaptation within national governments, value divides during implementation, and the composition of EU agency staff. The panel advances implementation research by linking administrative capacity, institutional design, and normative conflict in the multi-level governance of the EU.

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Understanding how value divides shape EU policy implementation	View Paper Details
Who Works in EU Agencies and Why Does it Matter: Staff Backgrounds, Profiles and National Stereotypes	View Paper Details
Reorganizing for Europe? Structural choices in European governments	View Paper Details
Target groups: An overlooked actor in EU implementation research	View Paper Details
Who Bears the Burden of Complexity? Implications of policy complexity for who is targeted and how rules are mediated	View Paper Details