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Delegation to independent regulatory agencies: pressures, functions and contextual mediation
No full text“The National Politics of European Regulation: Institutional Reform in Telecommunications”
Full text linkThe article begins by briefly setting out the national institutional structures that existed before the mid-1980s in telecommunications and the main pressures for change, before looking at the key features and requirements of EC regulation most relevant to institutional reform (sections I and II); the purpose is not to explain the development of national institutional arrangements or EC regulation, but to set them out in order to allow analysis of the impact of the latter on the former. The paper then compares alteration of two key institutional arrangements: competition; organisational structures, including ownership and regulatory bodies and power (sections III and IV). The concluding section seeks to link the findings to more general arguments about the impacts of EC regulation and the factors that influence those impacts
Reforming National Regulatory Institutions: the EU and Cross-National Variety in European Network Industries
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Analysing regulatory reform in Europe
No full textThe volume examines changes in regulatory rules, organizations and
policies across several European countries and policy domains, why these changes have taken place and their consequences. The ‘regulatory state’ hypothesis suggests
that regulatory reforms involve a new mode of governance in Europe, with
alterations in state functions, political arenas, institutions, actors and policy styles. The volume nds that although several features put forward by the ‘regulatory state’ model have spread, they remain limited and there is great diversity across countries and domains. It analyses the reasons for this, notably variation in internationa l
pressures for change and mediation by national factors. It looks at the effects of
regulatory reform on participation in regulatory politics, relationships among
actors, economic, social and market outcomes. An analytical framework based on
different ‘regulatory regimes’ offers the best route forward to analyse regulatory
reform across countries and sectors. (Copyright © 2018 Informa UK Limited
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