This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. The volume traces the varied roots of and routes to agency emergence and institutionalisation. It also analyses everyday decision-making processes within EU-level agencies, notably the management of such agencies, their role in the creation of network structures in European executive governance and in the implementation of EU legislation at the member state level, and the varied sources of agency accountability. The ambition of this volume is to offer an even-handed assessment and explanation of agency creation, design, and evolution at the EU level. The volume is targeted to academics, post-graduate students and practitioners. Chapter authors include Deirdre Curtin, Renaud Dehousse, Morten Egeberg and Thomas Gehring.
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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process.
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Part I Introduction1. Introducing the phenomenon of European Union agencies Madalina Busuioc, Martijn Groenleer and Jarle TrondalPart II The emergence and institutionalisation of EU agencies2. Building executive power at the European level: on the role of EU-level agencies Morten Egeberg, Maria Martens and Jarle Trondal3. Executive power in the making: the establishment of the European Chemicals Agency Maria Martens4. Changing the EU’s institutional landscape? The added value of an agencyAdriaan Schout5. Hybrid agencification in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and its inherent tensions: the case of Frontex Jorrit RijpmaPart III Everyday decision-making in EU agencies: networks, management, accountability and implementation6. Deliberative regulation through European agencies and other network structures?Thomas Gehring7. Wielders of supranational power? The administrative behaviour of the heads of European Union agencies Madalina Busuioc and Martijn Groenleer8. The parliamentary accountability of European Union and national agenciesTobias Bach and Julia Fleischer9. Catalysts of compliance? The role of European Union agencies in the implementation of European legislation in Poland and BulgariaEsther VersluisPart IV Epilogue10. EU agencies: Tipping the balance? Deirdre Curtin and Renaud Dehousse
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This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. With this in mind, the volume first of all traces the varied roots of and routes to agency emergence and institutionalisation. Going beyond general trends and developments, it also studies the specifics of everyday decision-making processes within EU-level agencies, notably the management of such agencies, their role in the creation of network structures in European executive governance and in the implementation of EU legislation at the member state level, and the varied sources of agency accountability. The ambition of the volume is to offer an even-handed assessment and explanation of agency creation, design, and evolution at the EU level. EU-level agencies in some circumstances seem to be capable of expanding their role beyond the levels mandated by formal design. Simultaneously, the role and behaviour displayed by agencies’ institutional principals and/or account-holders often diverge from formal expectations and complex dynamics arise between EU agencies as ‘newcomers’ and existing institutional structures. The volume thus not merely examines the formal, de jure design of EU agencies but also studies the real-life, de facto role of EU-level agencies and actual institutional dynamics. As such, it contributes to the debate about the role and place of agencies in the governance of the EU, fuelling theoretical and practical discussions with substantiated arguments rather than a priori normative assumptions. This book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners interested in the politics, governance and everyday functioning of the European Union.
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"Each chapter is informative, well-written and offeres convincing arguements. What is innovative and interesting is that this volume seeks to tie together different approaches, and thereby contribute to a broader and more nuanced understanding of the agency phenomenon. This is an important endeavour, and the book is likely to appeal to a wide range of readers interested in EU governance"(Helena Ekelund, Political Studies Review, May 2014)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780719085543
Publisert
2012-05-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Manchester University Press
Vekt
494 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Biographical note

Jarle Trondal is Professor in public administration at University of Agder, and Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo Madalina Busuioc is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam Martijn Groenleer is Assistant Professor in public administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University