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The Europeanization of America: What Every American Should Know About the European Union

The Europeanization of America: What Every American Should Know About the European Union 1997] BOOK REVIEWS 625 of th e American system instead. Apart from the fact tha t her sugges­ tions in this respect remain rather vague, one may question Prof. Rose-Ackerman's position on the grounds that its perspective is too narrow: Rather than exclusively scrutinizing the issue of legitimacy and accountability one should also address the problem of "perform­ ance", i.e., of substantiv e adequacy of environmental policy, and then th e question arises whether institutions really matter. Prof. Rose- Ackerman goes some way in this direction but, after not having been able to discover a clear superiority of American substantive perform­ ance over tha t of Germany, abandons this path for lack of sufficient data. This is a pity because Prof. Rose-Ackerman's arguments would have been much more convincing if she could have shown tha t the substantive results the United States has achieved by relying on its traditional system of legitimacy and accountability of th e policy-mak­ ing process are by far superior to those of the German system with its, as the author sees it, inferior institutional equipment. Perhaps institutions do in fact not matter as much as Prof. Rose-Ackerman believes, an d then it ma y http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Comparative Law Oxford University Press

The Europeanization of America: What Every American Should Know About the European Union

Lundmark, Thomas
American Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 45 (3) – Jul 1, 1997
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Oxford University Press
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© 1997 by The American Society of Comparative Law, Inc.
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0002-919X
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1997] BOOK REVIEWS 625 of th e American system instead. Apart from the fact tha t her sugges­ tions in this respect remain rather vague, one may question Prof. Rose-Ackerman's position on the grounds that its perspective is too narrow: Rather than exclusively scrutinizing the issue of legitimacy and accountability one should also address the problem of "perform­ ance", i.e., of substantiv e adequacy of environmental policy, and then th e question arises whether institutions really matter. Prof. Rose- Ackerman goes some way in this direction but, after not having been able to discover a clear superiority of American substantive perform­ ance over tha t of Germany, abandons this path for lack of sufficient data. This is a pity because Prof. Rose-Ackerman's arguments would have been much more convincing if she could have shown tha t the substantive results the United States has achieved by relying on its traditional system of legitimacy and accountability of th e policy-mak­ ing process are by far superior to those of the German system with its, as the author sees it, inferior institutional equipment. Perhaps institutions do in fact not matter as much as Prof. Rose-Ackerman believes, an d then it ma y

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