TY - JOUR

T1 - Swift, brokered and broad-based information exchange

T2 - How network structure facilitates stakeholders monitoring EU policy implementation

AU - Schrama, Reini Margriet

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - Monitoring the implementation process in domestic settings of multi-level policies like the EU gender directives is dependent on interactions among a diverse set of policy stakeholders. However, there is no clear understanding what factors determine the structure of these monitoring networks and what benefits effective exchange. Drawing on insights from social network theory, literature on information politics in transnational networks and policy network analysis, this study analyses what drives information exchange among actors in the monitoring network of women’s groups in the Netherlands. Using Exponential Random Graph Models, the analysis reveals distinctive structural features facilitating efficient information exchange and significant brokerage in the monitoring network. Moreover, the results demonstrate that interactions that serve the purpose of monitoring EU policy implementation occur among a diverse set of actors in a multi-level structure. These findings indicate that effective monitoring requires resourceful and broad-based information exchange to increase transparency in the implementation process.

AB - Monitoring the implementation process in domestic settings of multi-level policies like the EU gender directives is dependent on interactions among a diverse set of policy stakeholders. However, there is no clear understanding what factors determine the structure of these monitoring networks and what benefits effective exchange. Drawing on insights from social network theory, literature on information politics in transnational networks and policy network analysis, this study analyses what drives information exchange among actors in the monitoring network of women’s groups in the Netherlands. Using Exponential Random Graph Models, the analysis reveals distinctive structural features facilitating efficient information exchange and significant brokerage in the monitoring network. Moreover, the results demonstrate that interactions that serve the purpose of monitoring EU policy implementation occur among a diverse set of actors in a multi-level structure. These findings indicate that effective monitoring requires resourceful and broad-based information exchange to increase transparency in the implementation process.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - EU policy implementation – gender equality

KW - Exponential random graph models

KW - Information exchange

KW - Mmonitoring network

KW - Social network analysis

U2 - 10.1017/S0143814X1800017X

DO - 10.1017/S0143814X1800017X

M3 - Journal article

VL - 39

SP - 565

EP - 585

JO - Journal of Public Policy

JF - Journal of Public Policy

SN - 0143-814X

IS - 4

ER -