The Transposition of EU Law: ‘Post-Decisional Politics’ and Institutional Autonomy

The Transposition of EU Law: ‘Post-Decisional Politics’ and Institutional Autonomy

The transposition of EU law into national law is a significant part of the EU policy process. However, political scientists haven’t devoted to it the attention that it deserves. The author, a political scientist, construes transposition as a part of the wider process of policy implementation. Following implementation theory from the field of public policy, the article outlines three sets of fac...

Post-accession transposition of EU law in the new member states: a cross-country comparison

In this paper we examine the transposition of European Union (EU) legislation in the twelve ‘new’ member states during the post-accession stage. To this end, we scrutinize the number of formal notice letters received by the new member states in the period from 2004 to 2007. Our analysis shows that there is considerable variation in the transposition behaviour. While Lithuania, Hungary as well a...

Decisional autonomy of planetary rovers

To achieve the ever increasing demand for science return, planetary exploration rovers require more autonomy to successfully perform their missions. Indeed, the communication delays are such that teleoperation is unrealistic. Although the current rovers (such as MER) demonstrate a limited navigation autonomy, and mostly rely on ground mission planning, the next generation (e.g. NASA Mars Scienc...

Medical law and ethics in the post-autonomy age.

a comparative move analysis of the introduction sections of ma theses by iranian and native post-graduate students

since esp received universal attention to smooth the path for academic studies and productions, a great deal of research and studies have been directed towards this area. swales’ (1990) model of ra introduction move analysis has served a pioneering role of guiding many relevant studies and has proven to be productive in terms of helpful guidelines that are the outcome of voluminous productions ...