Researching European Union Agencies: What Have We Learnt (and Where Do We Go from Here)?

Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle

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“…And what explains the diversity of stakeholder mobilisation across a large set of consultations? While most research on EU agencies looks at agency autonomy, the establishment of agencies and how agencies relate to their political principals, few scholars have systematically investigated how agencies interact with stakeholders (Rittberger and Wonka 2011;Egeberg and Trondal 2017). Moreover, existing studies focus on only one or two policy domains, limiting generalisability (Borrás et al 2007;Thiel 2014;Chalmers 2015).…”

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Who feeds information to regulators? Stakeholder diversity in European Union regulatory agency consultations

Beyers

Arras

2019

J. Pub. Pol.

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To design regulatory policies, agencies depend on information from the industries they are tasked to regulate. Therefore, agencies can organise consultations with the aim of obtaining information from different perspectives. This article focuses on stakeholder diversity in agency public consultations. We ask to what extent is information provided by stakeholders other than the regulated sector, such as other business interests, experts or nonbusiness interests? Stakeholder diversity is relevant as it may prevent agencies to become exposed to one-sided information and capture by specialised interests. Are there consultation design factors that foster consultation diversity? Or, is (a lack of) consultation diversity structurally shaped by the context in which an agency operates? Analysing a wide range of public consultations organised by European Union regulatory agencies indicates that most information agencies receive via consultations comes from regulated interests and that the limited participation of nonregulated interests is highly tenacious.

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Who feeds information to regulators? Stakeholder diversity in European Union regulatory agency consultations

Beyers

Arras

2019

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“…This finding reflects the 'agencification' wave in Norway, as in most OECD countries, during the same time period (e.g. Verhoest et al 2010) and the parallel ´agencification´ of the EU administration (Egeberg and Trondal 2017). Whilst Table 3 revealed decreasing contacts between sector ministries and EU agencies, Table 7 shows a corresponding decrease in perceived importance of EU agencies.…”

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“…The inherent state prerogative of preparing policy-making and getting things done has been challenged by the rise of independent and integrated administrative capacities at the EU level. The supply of organizational capacities inside the European Commission -together with the rise of EU agencies -has enabled an emergent EU-level executive order to act independently of domestic government institutions (Egeberg and Trondal 2017). Moreover, organizational capacities of EU-level administrative actors supply them with a capacity to influence nonmajoritarian institutions (agencies) at domestic level (e.g.…”

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European integration and the administrative state. A longitudinal study on self-reinforcing administrative bias

Kühn

Trondal

2018

Journal of European Public Policy

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The study demonstrates how the EU contributes to a self-reinforcing administrative bias due to domestic-level organizational factors. Strong European integration without membership reinforces a politico-administrative gap and this gap expands over time. The paper applies an extreme case of high integration without formal EU membership represented by Norway. The findings suggest that the EU contributes to reinforce the administrative state through strong unintended assimilation effects. The findings are probed by a novel and comprehensive longitudinal data-set consisting of a large-N single case

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“…Chamon, 2016;Simoncini, 2018). The latter two are concerns which legal scholars share with their political science and public administration colleagues (Egeberg and Trondal, 2017). The fact that EU agencies have mostly instrumental powers, and have final decision-making powers only in individual decision-making is largely attributed to the long-lasting influence of two early judgments.…”

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The EU Administrative Institutions, Their Law and Legal Scholarship

Mendes

2019

SSRN Journal

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The chapter approaches the EU administrative institutions as catalysts of the development of administrative law of the European Union. As a chapter of the Oxford Handbook on Comparative Administrative Law, it explains the main traits of those institutions, how legal scholarship has portrayed them and how it has addressed the core aspects of their legal regimes. Furthermore, it traces the emergence and current state of EU administrative law, characterising the different roles comparative administrative law has had at different stages. It highlights the initial dissonance between the specificities of the EU administrative institutions and the statematrix of general principles that were developed on the basis of functional comparison; the role of legal scholarship in shaping EU administrative law, in its efforts to give effect to an "utopia" (Chiti, 2007) of an integrated administration constitutionally framed by general principles and fundamental rights; the limits of resorting to comparative administrative law in the context of EU integration and, briefly, the crossroads at which EU administrative law currently stands.The dominance of administrative institutions in regional and global governance is a truism in many important areas of social and economic life. Food quality, pharmaceuticals, product safety, environment, technology and communications are only a few examples. In all these areas, regulation relies on specialised knowledge, discourses and legal acts developed within and adopted by international, regional and national administrative institutions, which, thereby, and by force of the powers allocated to them, have become central to modern government. At the same time, the proliferation of administrative institutions beyond the state challenged the role and functions of their national counter-parts. They have emerged largely detached from constitutionally framed or stable procedural and substantive rules that, within a state-setting, had provided safer ground for the protection of rights and the legitimacy of democratic processes (Sand, 1998, 274), and they evolved as those rules were being framed. As they progressively changed the governing conditions within the state, the challenges they have posed to democratic government and to rights' protection soon became those of national administrative institutions too (Sand, 1998, 276). From this perspective, the 'level' image, whereby supranational and transnational administrative institutions operate 'beyond the state' is as deceptive as it is descriptively appealing. This chapter will focus on the administrative institutions of the EU. It is hoped that the Eurocentric-bias of the analysis can nevertheless be useful as a reference point for the study of 1 I would like to acknowledge helpful suggestions by Peter Cane and Filipe Brito Bastos.

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Researching European Union Agencies: What Have We Learnt (and Where Do We Go from Here)?

Cited by 99 publications

References 72 publications

Who feeds information to regulators? Stakeholder diversity in European Union regulatory agency consultations

Who feeds information to regulators? Stakeholder diversity in European Union regulatory agency consultations

European integration and the administrative state. A longitudinal study on self-reinforcing administrative bias

The EU Administrative Institutions, Their Law and Legal Scholarship

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