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Jour Fixe with David Levi-Faur, 15 November 2010
11/11/2010
We are glad to invite you to the Jour Fixe presentation by Prof. David Levi-Faur on: "REGULATORY NETWORKS AND REGULATORY AGENCIFICATION: TOWARD A SINGLE EUROPEAN REGULATORY SPACE". Torben Heinze will be discussant.
The Jour Fixe begins at 4.15 pm (16.15 Uhr) and takes place at Ihnestr. 26, Room 202.
Abstract
The European regulatory space has been expanding rapidly since the 1990s, and the idea of the single market is increasingly assessed against the idea and emergence of a Single European Regulatory Space (SERS). Both markets and regulatory regimes in Europe are split and divided across nations and regions; but the double movement toward a single market and a single European regulatory space is evident almost everywhere. In order to shed some light on the characteristics and the driving forces of regulatory governance in the EU, this paper explores the role of political actors and processes of institutionalization and administrative rationalization at the EU level. It raises the question, what explains institutional choice in favor of agencification when compared with network organization? An updated survey of the institutional landscape in 36 regulatory regimes of the EU’s regulatory space and a comparative analysis of agencification in aviation safety and failed agencification in telecoms shed some light on the dialectical relations between agencies and networks in the making of the European regulatory space.
