Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560530.013.0012
Abstract
This article discusses the concept of the so-called experimentalist governance. It explains that the experimentalist architecture in regulation is well illustrated by the European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its Common Implementation Strategy. The article suggests that experimentalism appears particularly well suited to transnational domains, where there is no overarching sovereign with the authority to set common goals even in theory, and where the diversity of local conditions and practices makes the adoption and enforcement of uniform fixed rules even less feasible than in domestic settings.
Disciplines
Law | Law and Politics | Public Policy
Recommended Citation
Charles F. Sabel & Jonathan Zeitlin,
Experimentalist Governance,
The Oxford Handbook of Governance, David Levi-Faur (Ed.), Oxford University Press
(2012).
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