Abstract
The European Union (EU) has established a major role in directing policy change, both internally and beyond its borders: a phenomenon known as ‘Europeanisation’. This article examines the Europeanisation of water policy in Turkey in relation to implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Although some principles of EU water policy have been adopted in Turkey, the WFD has also been subject to significant domestic modification, prompting questions about how and why such patterns of partial implementation occur. In this respect, learning and socialisation within transnational ‘instrument constituencies’ (ICs) is shown to be an important explanatory factor. It follows that diffusion of the EU’s water policy and the WFD beyond its borders may be enhanced by promoting the capacity for instrument constituency learning (or the ‘cognitive environment’) in non-EU countries.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 205-224 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Water Alternatives |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 1 Aug 2020 |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
Keywords
- Water Framework Directive; instrument constituencies; policy diffusion; Turkey; social learning; Europeanisation
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Jenny Fairbrass
- Norwich Business School - Emeritus Associate Professor
- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Member
- Responsible Business Regulation Group - Member
- ClimateUEA - Member
Person: Honorary, Member, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member