{"product_id":"9783319841540","title":"European Union Policy-Making : The Regulatory Shift in Natural Gas Market Policy (International Series on Public Policy)","description":"This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes. It systematically defines and identifies functional equivalents for all of the framework's core concepts at the EU level and extends the framework in order to explain agenda-setting and decision-making. Furthermore, the book derives a set of explicit hypotheses to empirically assess the extent to which the (modified) framework is able to explain timing, agenda prominence, and policy change (or a lack thereof) for the EU natural gas directives passed in 1998, 2003, and 2009. The analysis documents that the framework is well-suited to explain the EU policy process in general and reveals where additional theoretical refinements are required. Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Theoretical approach to the policy process: the multiple streams framework.- Chapter 3. The European natural gas market and its regulation.- Chapter 4. The first gas directive process.- Chapter 5. The second gas directive process.- Chapter 6. The third gas directive process.- Chapter 7. Conclusion. Nicole Herweg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her primary field of interest is comparative public-policy analysis, in particular European Union energy policy. She has published in leading political science journals, including \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Political Research\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolicy Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePolicy Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42605455999051,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3921.51,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9783319841540","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}