Building EU Regulatory Capacity: The Work of Under-Resourced Agencies in the European Union

by Eva Heims

Overview

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these EU bodies. This raises the puzzle of why national regulators are willing to provide ‘life support’ to potentially rival organisations. The book is devoted to answering this question in order to understand how EU regulatory capacity is created in the absence of a full supranational regulatory bureaucracy. To do so, the book studies to what extent national regulators from two countries (the UK and Germany) support EU agencies in their work across four policy sectors (drug safety, food safety, maritime safety and banking supervision). The book makes a significant contribution by developing a bureaucratic politics perspective that highlights the importance of national regulators for EU regulatorycapacity building.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319975771
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/29/2018
Series:	Executive Politics and Governance
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	533 KB

About the Author

Eva Heims is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of York, UK. She is also a research associate at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, LSE, UK. Dr Heims’ research in the field of public policy and administration focuses on the politics of (transnational) regulation.

Table of Contents

1. Regulatory Capacity Building.- 2. An Organisational Perspective on Regulatory Capacity Building in the EU.- 3. Building EU Capacity to Monitor the Safety of Drugs.- 4. Building EU Maritime Safety Regulatory Capacity.- 5. Food Safety: Building EU Regulatory Capacity through the Backdoor.- 6. Building an Integrated Banking Market while Containing Cross-Border Risks.- 7. The Future of Regulatory Capacity Building in the EU.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book develops a compelling theoretical account of multilevel regulatory governance in the European Union. Why do national agencies contribute to some EU agencies’ task fulfilment, while having strained relationships with others? The book’s comprehensive empirical analysis spells out the conditions for effective multi-level coordination and provides significant insights for the design of regulatory institutions.” (Tobias Bach, University of Oslo, Norway)

“This book provides an excellent analysis of the complex relationship between national and European administrative actors and draws a nuanced picture of the conditions influencing European regulatory capacity building. Comparing four policy domains in two different countries, it delivers rich empirical evidence for its argument.” (Eva Ruffing, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)

“A valuable and insightful contribution on regulatory capacity building in the EU. The book’s persuasive argument and evidence underscore theimportance of adopting a bureaucratic politics perspective to studying co-operation dilemmas in the EU, as well as the value of studying this system in its multiple composite layers, rather than zooming in on EU-level regulators alone.” (Madalina Busuioc, Leiden University, The Netherlands)