Environmental policy evaluation in the EU: between learning, accountability, and political opportunities?

Schoenefeld, Jonas and Jordan, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7678-1024 (2019) Environmental policy evaluation in the EU: between learning, accountability, and political opportunities? Environmental Politics, 28 (2). pp. 365-384. ISSN 0964-4016

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Abstract

Policy evaluation has grown significantly in the EU environmental sector since the 1990s. In identifying and exploring the putative drivers behind its rise – a desire to learn, a quest for greater accountability, and a wish to manipulate political opportunity structures – new ground is broken by examining how and why the existing literatures on these drivers have largely studied them in isolation. The complementarities and potential tensions between the three drivers are then addressed in order to advance existing research, drawing on emerging empirical examples in climate policy, a very dynamic area of evaluation activity in the EU. The conclusions suggest that future studies should explore the interactions between the three drivers to open up new and exciting research opportunities in order to comprehend contemporary environmental policy and politics in the EU.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	evaluation,accountability,learning,environmental policy,evaluation governance,eu,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Jan 2019 09:30
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69640
DOI:	10.1080/09644016.2019.1549782

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