The Importance of Small Differences: European integration and road haulage associations in Germany and the Netherlands
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Amsterdam : Thela Thesis, 1999, Regulation and markets
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LEHMKUHL, Dirk, The Importance of Small Differences: European integration and road haulage associations in Germany and the Netherlands, Amsterdam : Thela Thesis, 1999, Regulation and markets - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22336
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--1 INTRODUCTION: OUTLINE AND MAJOR FINDINGS 1
--2 THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INTEREST INTERMEDIATION 11
--2.1 General Considerations About State-Society Relations 14
--2.2 European Integration and the Organisation of Interests 18
--2.3 The Analytical Framework: The Adjustment of Structures and Strategies 22
--3 TRANSPORT POLICY IN EUROPE: THE LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS 35
--3.1 European Transport Policy: Legal, Institutional and Political Developments 36
--3.1.1 Legal Framework 37
--3.1.2 Institutional Framewoik 38
--3.1.3 European Transport Policy-Making 41
--3.1.4 The Common European Transport Policy: Its Making and Its Impact on the Member States 49
--3.2 The General Economic Environment 54
--3.2.1 The Transport Demand Side 55
--3.2.2 The Transport Supply Side 64
--3.3 Conclusion: The Impact of Political And Economic Integration on the Domestic Level 75
--4 GERMANY: CORPORATIST IMMOBILITY 79
--Introduction 79
--4.1 General Description: Considerable Potential for Collective Action 80
--4.2 Institutional Framework of the Transport Sector 84
--4.2.1 The Institutional and Regulatory Framework 85-
--4.2.2 The Structure of the Transport Sector 90
--4.3 The Structure of State-Industry Relations in Road Transport 96
--4.3.2 Synopsis: The Organisation of Interests in German Road Transport 110
--4.3.3 Institutionalised Forms of Interaction 116
--4,4 Patterns of Interest Intermediation 119
--4.5 Summary: An Associational System Under Stress 122
--5 THE NETHERLANDS: NEO-CORPORATISM ALIVE AND KICKING 127
--Introduction 127
--5.1 General Description: A Decentralised Unitary State 128
--5.2 Institutional Framework of the Transport Sector 134
--5.2.1 The Institutional Framework 134
--5.2.2 The Regulatory Framework 136
--5.3 The Structure of the Transport Sector 142
--5.4 Structure of State-Industry
--Relations in Road Transport 146
--5.4.1 The Organisation of Interests 146
--5.4.2 Patterns of Interest Intermediation 158
--5.5 Summary: The Associational System—Recovery by Concentration 163
--6 THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONAL SYSTEMS COMPARED 167
--6,1 Economic and Political Integration in Europe 169
--6.2 European Integration and National Associational Systems 171
--6.2.1 Logic of Membership Variables: The Sector Structure 171
--6.2,2 The Organisation of Interests 176
--6.2,3 Logic of Influence Variables: The External Environment 179
--6.3 Structural Convergence of Associational Systems? 186
--6.4 Europe's Differential Impact on Public-Private Exchange Mechanisms 195
--6.4,1 On Technical and Institutional Environments 196
--6.4.2 The Micropolitics of Associations 204
--7 CONCLUSION 211
--REFERENCES 215
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1998