The Practice and Discourse of Legislative Evaluation in Portugal

Vilaça, Guilherme Vasconcelos; Garoupa, Nuno

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“…Stakeholders press for more economic analysis, better RIAs, information and transparency. The latter variable, administrative capacity, exposes a truth that is neglected in official rhetoric as Garoupa and Vasconcelos Vilaça (2007) show for the Portuguese case of the implementation of RIA. Advocates of regulatory innovations often make arguments about the quality, transparency, participation and openness of rule-making, but forget to consider that all these desirable aspects of governance are very demanding in terms of administrative capacity and bureaucratic efficiency -a point noted by Schout and Jordan (2008).…”

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Implementing regulatory innovations in Europe: the case of impact assessment

Francesco¹,

Radaelli²,

Troeger³

2012

Journal of European Public Policy

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Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) has become a major tool on the agenda of regulatory reform across Europe. Although the literature on RIA is burgeoning, the comparative analysis of implementation has been neglected. This article draws on implementation theory to formulate expectations about the political costs and benefits of different degrees of implementation. Implementation ranges from political endorsement to the creation of central units in charge of regulatory quality and the production and publication of RIA results and methods. Our findings show that economic integration, the characteristics of the political system, economic resources, bureaucratic efficiency and pressure group activities play different roles in the various stages of implementation. We discuss the policy implications of these findings in terms of priorities given to different processes of regulatory reform and the demands that innovations like RIA pose on administrative capacity and stakeholders' participation.

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“…For instance, there is no oversight body in Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia (Staranova, 2010), as well as in Greece (Hatizis and Nalpantidou, 2007) and Portugal (Garoupa and Vasconcelos Vilaça, 2007). Furthermore, the number of people employed in the central oversight units varies greatly across countries.…”

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Implementing regulatory innovations in Europe: the case of impact assessment

Francesco¹,

Radaelli²,

Troeger³

2012

Journal of European Public Policy

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The Development of RIA in the European Union: An Overview

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The European Commission has successfully managed to adopt and implement ex ante impact assessment procedures since 2003, and available data show that the IA documented are of increasingly good quality. Even though margins for improving the European Commission IA system persist, other EU institutions and almost all EU member states significantly lag behind in terms of IA implementation. The experience of past research projects, including the European Network for Better Regulation and the recent OECD EU15 project confirmed that at national level IA features a high adoption-implementation gap. This paper draws on EU and international experience to draw some recommendations, which include the need for more sophisticated legal and economic analysis in RIA, to make it a more credible instrument for ex ante policy appraisal; and the need for gradually introduced, carefully designed RIA system which take advantage of the enormous success obtained by other, simpler models, such as the Standard Cost Model for the measurement and reduction of administrative burdens.

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The Practice and Discourse of Legislative Evaluation in Portugal

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Implementing regulatory innovations in Europe: the case of impact assessment

Implementing regulatory innovations in Europe: the case of impact assessment

The Development of RIA in the European Union: An Overview

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