Revisiting Policy Preferences and Capacities in the EU: Multi‐level policy implementation in the subnational authorities
研究了欧盟立法在德国各州（次国家级）的转化过程，发现州级政治偏好和资源差异导致转化时间不同，并常造成延迟，对理解欧盟多层级治理有参考价值。
Abstract Research on multi‐level implementation of EU legislation has almost exclusively focused on the national level, while little is known about the role of subnational authorities. Nevertheless, it is a prerequisite for the functioning of the European Union that all member states and their subnational authorities apply and enforce EU legislation in due time. I address this research gap and take a closer look at the legal transposition process in the German regional states. Using a novel data set comprising detailed information on about 700 subnational measures, I show that state‐level variables, such as political preferences and ministerial resources, account for variation in the timing of legal transposition and repeatedly lead to subnational delay. To conclude, the paper addresses the role of subnational authorities in the EU multi‐level system and points to their interest in shaping legal transposition in order to counterbalance their loss of competences to the national level.