Complying with Europe: Eu Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States Book

1	Introduction : flexible EU governance in domestic practice	1
2	Theorising the domestic impact of EU law : the state of the art and beyond	11
3	EU social policy over time : the role of directives	41
4	The employment contract information directive : a small but useful social complement to the internal market	56
5	The pregnant workers directive : European social policy between protection and employability	73
6	The working time directive : European standards taken hostage by domestic politics	94
7	The young workers directive : a safety net with holes	118
8	The parental leave directive : compulsory policy innovation and voluntary over-implementation	140
9	The part-time work directive : a facilitator of national reforms	159
10	Voluntary reforms triggered by the directives	178
11	The EU Commission and (non-)compliance in the member states	201
12	Beyond policy change : convergence of national public-private relations?	229
13	Implementation across countries and directives	260
14	Why do member states fail to comply? : testing the hypotheses suggested in the literature	277
15	Three worlds of compliance : a typology	317
16	Conclusions : myth and reality of social Europe	342