How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision‐Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive*
研究了国家政策实施如何影响欧盟层面的政策修订，发现成员国偏好异质性和现状同质性使得修订更难，并以《派遣工人指令》的修订谈判为例说明。
Abstract In this paper, I focus on how national policy implementation affects policy revision at the EU level. The main argument is that when policy is implemented in a decentralized manner, it affects the current situation or status quo in member states. This affects the possibilities of any further legislative change at the EU level. The analyses suggests that heterogeneity in national preferences and homogeneity in national status quo points make it less easy to adopt a revised policy. This result is illustrated by the recent discussion on revising the Posting of Workers Directive. Having rather different views on this policy while faced with limited possibilities to shape this policy nationally, makes it difficult to change the Posting Directive. The rather long and difficult negotiations, especially among the member states, about its revision support this implication.