The World of Regulatory Agencies: Institutional Varieties and Administrative Traditions
26 Pages
Posted: 19 Jul 2013
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals - IBEI; Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
ESADE Business School
Universitat Pompeu Fabra; IBEI
Date Written: June 15, 2013
Abstract
The paper introduces a dataset of de jure institutional characteristics of regulatory agencies in more than 100 countries and 16 sectors. By doing so it discusses up to which degree countries with different administrative traditions have shaped the incorporation of such institutions into their own administrative culture. The paper shows that there are differences in the role that society plays in the agencies, in their political autonomy and in their bureaucratic autonomy by administrative tradition.
Keywords: regulatory agencies, administrative traditions, role of society, political autonomy, bureaucratic autonomy, independence, agencification, Bayesian comparison of means
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Bianculli, Andrea C. and Fernández-i-Marín, Xavier and Jordana, Jacint, The World of Regulatory Agencies: Institutional Varieties and Administrative Traditions (June 15, 2013). EPSA 2013 Annual General Conference Paper 786. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2225138
