Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The differential impact of Europe: Resource dependency versus institution dependency -- Contributions to the field -- The structure of the book -- Part I Europeanization and domestic institutional change: A historical institutionalist approach -- 1 Europeanization as a process of institutionalization and institutional change -- 2 Conceptualizing the domestic impact of Europe: Resource dependency versus institutional adaptation -- The domestic impact of Europe as a resource-dependent process -- Europeanization as a new political opportunity structure: Strengthening, weakening, or transformation of the state? -- The domestic impact of Europe as a process of institutional adaptation -- Europeanization as an emerging set of new institutions: Convergence or divergence? -- 3 The domestic impact of Europe as an "institution-dependent" process -- Actors' behavior: Purposeful but socially constrained -- Institutions: Formal and informal rule structures which constitute actors and regulate their behavior -- Formal institutions -- Informal institutions -- Europeanization as a challenge to domestic institutions: Facilitating or prohibiting adaptation? -- Adaptational strategies -- Strategy choice -- Adaptability -- Institutional change -- Part II Reinforcing cooperative federalism: Institutional adaptation to Europeanization in Germany -- 4 The Federal Republic of Germany as a model of cooperative federalism -- Functional division of labor, strong bicameralism, and fiscal equalization as the major formal institutions of German... -- Marble-cake federalism and the problem of centralization -- Interlocking politics and executive federalism -- Fiscal solidarity: Vertical and horizontal equalization.

Multilateral bargaining and consensus-seeking as the dominant institutional culture of German federalism -- Adapting to centralization: The Länder strategy of cooperation and cost-sharing -- Centralization and its compensation-through-participation -- "Gemeinsam sind wir stark": Regional coalition building vis-à-vis the federal government -- 5 The rinascimento of cooperative federalism: The impact of Europeanization on the territorial institutions of Germany -- The double loss of competencies and the uneven distribution of "say and pay" -- The erosion of the federal state? -- "The Länder strike back" -- "Rein in" versus "Roll back": The compensation-through-participation strategy -- 1951-1986: The dominance of the Bund in European policy-making -- 1986-87: Starting to get even -- 1992-93: Redressing the territorial balance of power -- Post-1993: Resting on the laurels of success -- Extrastate channels of influence: Complementary to rather than a substitute for intrastate participation -- Redressing the territorial balance of power through sharing the costs of adaptation -- Substituting self-determination for co-determination: The loss of state quality? -- Multilevel interlocking politics: A dual joint decision trap? -- Sharing the burden of implementation? -- Reinforcement through flexible adjustment: The Europeanization of cooperative federalism -- 6 Conclusion -- Part III Transforming competitive regionalism: Institutional adaptation to Europeanization in Spain -- 7 The Spanish State of Autonomies as a form of competitive regionalism -- Political autonomy, fiscal centralization, and weak intergovernmental cooperation as the major formal institutions of the… -- Layer-cake federalism and the problem of conflict over competencies -- Marble-cake fiscal federalism and the problem of fiscal centralization.

Asymmetrical bicameralism and the problem of intergovernmental cooperation -- Bilateralism, confrontation, and regional competition as the dominant institutional culture of Spanish regionalism -- Confronting centralization: The CCAA strategy of confrontation and cost-shifting -- Confronting centralization by extending and ring-fencing regional competencies -- 'Cada una por su cuenta': The refusal of regional coalition-building -- 8 Toward a framework of joint decision-making: The impact of Europeanization on the territorial institutions of Spain -- The centralization of implementation and the uneven distribution of "say and pay" -- The Comunidades Autonomas fight centralization -- Cooperating versus bypassing: The strategy of confronting and circumventing the state -- 1985-87: The failure of intergovernmental cooperation -- Confronting the state: Ring-fencing autonomous competencies through constitutional conflict -- Circumventing the state: Extrastate channels of influence -- A new strategy of cooperation and the emergence of institutional change -- The pitfalls of confronting and circumventing the state -- 1989-92: The piecemeal approach to multilateral intergovernmental cooperation -- Post-1993: Toward the German model? -- The transformation of Spanish competitive regionalism: Europeanization or institutional consolidation? -- El Senado -- Las Conferencias Sectoriales -- 9 Conclusion -- Part IV Sharing versus shifting the costs of adaptation: The Europeanization of environmental policy-making in Germany and... -- 10 The "blooming" of cooperative federalism: Institutional adaptation to the Europeanization of environmental… -- The uneven distribution of "say and pay" in European environmental policy-making -- The loss of environmental co-decision powers -- The centralization of administrative competencies -- Bearing the costs of implementation.

Sharing the costs of adaptation: Joint cooperation and joint non-implementation -- "Reining in" European environmental policy-making -- Shifting and sharing implementation costs together with the central state -- Pulling all possible strings: Extrastate channels of influence -- Flexible adjustment through the joint shifting and joint sharing of adaptational costs: "Fertilizing" cooperative federalism -- The Bundesrat and the Umweltministerkonferenz as the major axes of Bund-Länder cooperation -- Sectorization and deparliamentarization: Two sides of the same coin -- 11 The "greening" of competitive regionalism: Institutional adaptation to the Europeanization of environmental… -- The uneven distribution of "say and pay" in European environmental policy-making -- The centralization of environmental competencies at the national level -- Bearing the costs of implementation at the regional level -- Shifting the costs of adaptation: Confrontation, non-implementation, and non-cooperation -- Ring-fencing regional competencies by constitutional conflict -- Reducing and shifting implementation costs by lax application and enforcement -- Intergovernmental cooperation: Cost-sharing versus cost-shifting -- The increasing failure of cost-shifting in reducing adaptational costs -- The rising costs of non-implementation -- From cost-shifting to cost-sharing -- Making implementation work: mutual consultation and pragmatic collaboration -- Europeanization and the emergence of multilateral intergovernmental cooperation -- Toward a spill-over from European to domestic policy-making? -- 12 Conclusion -- Conclusions: Toward convergence in Europe? -- The domestic impact of Europe: Transformation versus reinforcement -- Cooperative regionalism on the rise? -- Institutional dependency and beyond: Some suggestions for future research.

Europe of the regions: Europe of the citizens? -- Appendix: The major EU environmental policies of the policy study -- The directive on the quality of water on human consumption (drinking water directive) (80/778/EEC) -- The directive on the combating of air pollution from industrial plant (84/360/EEC) and the directive on the limitation… -- The directive on environmental impact assessment (85/337/EEC) -- The directive on freedom of access to information on the environment (90/313/EEC) -- The directive concerning urban waste water treatment (91/271/EEC) -- The eco-audit management and audit system regulation (1836/93/EC) -- The directive concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (96/61/EC) -- References -- Index.