1st Edition

Agency Governance in the EU

Edited By Berthold Rittberger, Arndt Wonka Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The rapid proliferation of EU agencies represents one of the most significant changes to the EU’s organisational set-up in past decades. At the same time, this development has significantly affected regulatory policy-making in the EU. This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to address the key themes and challenges that agency governance in the EU poses to effective... Read more

Berthold Rittberger (University of Mannheim) and Arndt Wonka (University of Bremen)

Introduction: agency governance in the European Union

Mark Thatcher (London School of Economics and Political Science)

The creation of European regulatory agencies and its limits: a comparative analysis of European delegation

David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Regulatory networks and regulatory agencification: toward a Single European Regulatory Space

Martino Maggetti (University of Zurich) and Fabrizio Gilardi (University of Zurich)

The policy-making structure of European Regulatory Networks and the domestic adoption of standards

Madalina Busuioc (University of Amsterdam), Deirdre Curtin (University of Amsterdam) and Martijn Groenleer (Delft University of technology)

Agency growth between autonomy and accountability: the European Police Office as a ‘living institution’

Morten Egeberg (ARENA, University of Oslo) and Jarle Trondal (Agder University)

EU-level agencies: new executive centre formation or vehicles for national control?

Arndt Wonka (University of Bremen) and Berthold Rittberger (University of Mannheim)

Perspectives on EU governance: an empirical assessment of the political attitudes of EU agency professionals

Christopher Lord (ARENA, University of Oslo)

The European Parliament and the legitimation of agencification

Biography

Berthold Rittberger is Professor and Chair of political science and contemporary history at the University of Mannheim, project director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), and adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (NZ).

Arndt Wonka is field coordinator and postdoctoral researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and external fellow and project director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).