Research note by Stéphanie De Somer. An increasing number of EU legislative documents oblige or strongly encourage Member States to entrust the implementation of substantive rules of EU law to administrative bodies that enjoy a certain…
Research note by Eric L. Windholz Regulation has come of age as a primary tool of governance. Regulation today is the expanding part of governance, and the policy preference of government in many areas of state…
Research note by Miroslava Scholten Under the auspices of RENFORCE, an international team of researchers has recently concluded a report on the ‘Investigatory powers and procedural safeguards: Improving OLAF’s legislative framework through a comparison with…
Research note by Mattia Guidi This book is about how competition policy is enforced in the member states of the European Union, and it is a book focused on a particular feature of competition policy…
Research note by Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford We make four observations in this book. First, government is integral for long-term economic growth and stability in markets. Second, given time-inconsistent preferences, politicians’ promises are often…
Research note by Pieter Zwaan, Stijn van Voorst and Ellen Mastenbroek based on the paper: Pieter Zwaan, Stijn van Voorst and Ellen Mastenbroek. Ex post legislative evaluation in the European Union. Questioning the use of evaluation as…
Research note by Gianluca Sgueo This volume (“Beyond Networks – Interlocutory Coalitions, the European and Global Legal Orders” – Springer, 2016) has an admitted affinity with the works of leading scholars on globalisation of administrative…
Controlling Capital: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets, a new book edited by Nicholas Dorn (Routledge, March 2016), looks at contemporary tendencies in public regulation, private regulation and relations between them. Part I of…
Research note by Christoph Ossege Reflecting a global ‘rise of the unelected’ (Vibert, 2007), European Regulatory Agencies (ERAs) have become increasingly important features of regulatory decision-making in the EU. Whether we eat food, purchase medication in…
Research note by Carolyn J. Heinrich Political leaders and the public have long disparaged the “wearing friction” or costs of interacting with government and have called for the public sector “to make its business less unbusinesslike”…