Domestic Governance Structures and Policy Learning East and West: The Limits of Europeanization1

This book has focused on the role of the policy learning capacity of the institutional structures at the domestic level of governance, as a crucial intervening variable between the Europeanization of public policy and domestic institutional and policy change and adaptation in public policy in general and regional and environmental policies in particular. The main hypothesis, established in chapter one, is that, although the Europeanization process plays a key role in the transformation of the domestic systems of governance in general and public policymaking structures in particular, domestic institutions and especially specific features of the pre-existing institutional infrastructure at the national and subnational levels of government matter for adaptation.