ABSTRACT
Harmonisation and legal convergence are core tasks of the EU. This paper explores the question about the determinants for national convergence of EU law, specifically applied to the ever-growing body of European consumer sales law. The measurement of national convergence is based on a unique coding of five directives in seven Member States. Using the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method, the paper finds that differences in national convergence can partly be explained by favourable features of the corresponding directives; however, mainly, they are the result of a combination of domestic political factors and, to a lesser extent, the country characteristics. This has important policy implications, for instance, on the need to ‘bring in politics’ in the debate about convergence, harmonisation and consumer sales law.
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Catalina Goanta and Mathias Siems, What determines national convergence of EU law? Measuring the implementation of consumer sales law, Legal Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2019.8. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 6 September 2019.
First posted 2019-09-09 06:12:11
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