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| Author: | Jordan, A. |
| Title: | European Community water policy standards: locked in or watered down? |
| Journal: | Journal of Common Market Studies
1999 : MAR, VOL. 37:1, p. 13-38 |
| Index terms: | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY POLICY STANDARDS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | By any measure, European Community (EC) water policy has been very poorly implemented by the Member States, and lacks self-consistency in some key respects and a sound scientific foundation. The conventional wisdom is that policies decided collectively tend towards the lowest common denominator of state preferences. But recent experience in the water sector suggests that directives decided by unanimity are nonetheless extremely difficult to reform once they become embedded in national political systems. |
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