The Europeanization of British Environmental Policy
The Europeanization of British Environmental Policy
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英国环境政策的欧洲化
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2002
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A. Jordan
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[引言]。当英国第一次考虑加入当时被称为欧洲经济共同体的理由时，环境考虑充其量只是次要的，而不是被广泛视为更紧迫的国家利益，如贸易、农业和议会主权。1972年，当最终决定加入欧盟时，英国国内仍有一种普遍的观点，即--套用本书的标题--作为一个正式的成员国，英国的环境政策此后将正式成为“在欧洲”，但可以想象，欧洲的环境政策永远不会是“在英国”。或者，稍微换一种说法，加入欧盟将为英国提供一个与其他成员国分享其处理环境问题的长期经验的机会，但英国的政策不会--对于包括国家环境部在内的许多主要参与者来说，也不应该--被欧洲系统性地欧洲化。在采用自上而下的方法来理解欧盟成员国身份对英国政治的影响时，贝奇和乔丹(即将提出)将欧洲化定义为“通过欧盟倡议和决定推进的，以反映欧洲层面参与者的政策、做法和偏好的方式，对国内政治方面的重新定位或重塑”。这一定义为本讨论提供了起点。
[Introduction]. When Britain first considered the case for joining what was then know as the EEC, environmental considerations were at best secondary to what were widely perceived to be more pressing national interests, such as trade, agriculture and the sovereignty of parliament. When the decision to join was finally taken in 1972, there was still a widespread view in Britain, that - to paraphrase the title of this book – as a full member state, British environmental policy would thereafter formally be ‘in Europe’, but European environmental policy would not conceivably ever be ‘in Britain’. Or, to put it slightly differently, membership would offer Britain an opportunity to share its long experience of dealing with environmental problems with other member states, but British policy would not - and for many dominant actors including the national environment ministry, should not - be systematically Europeanized by Europe. In adopting a top-down approach for understanding the impact of EU membership on British politics, Bache and Jordan (forthcoming) define Europeanisation as ‘the reorientation or reshaping of aspects of politics in the domestic arena in ways that reflect the policies, practices and preferences of European level actors, as advanced through EU initiatives and decisions’. This definition provides the starting point for this discussion.