The Principal Agent Model And The European Union

Author : Tom Delreux,Johan Adriaensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319551371

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The Principal Agent Model and the European Union by Tom Delreux,Johan Adriaensen Pdf

This book assesses the use and limitations of the principal-agent model in a context of increasingly complex political systems such as the European Union. Whilst a number of conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges need to be addressed, the authors show that the principal-agent model can still provide deeper insights into a wide range of political phenomena. Through an empirical analysis of multiple principal-agent relations in the EU, covering a variety of policy fields and political actors, the volume refines our theoretical understanding of the politics of delegation and discretion in the EU. It will appeal to scholars in interested in EU politics and policy, public administration and governance, and international organisations. The chapter ‘Multiple principals preferences, different types of oversight mechanisms, and agent’s discretion in trade negotiations’ is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Author : A. Geeraert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137517784

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The EU in International Sports Governance by A. Geeraert Pdf

This book demonstrates that the European Union (EU) can curtail the autonomy of FIFA and UEFA by building upon insights from the principal-agent model. The author argues that EU institutional features complicate control, but do not render the EU powerless, and that FIFA and UEFA can deploy a variety of strategies to mitigate control.

Author : Andreas Dür,Manfred Elsig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317985044

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The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies by Andreas Dür,Manfred Elsig Pdf

The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. In particular, the contributions to this volume analyze delegation, control, and agent strategies in a variety of principal-agent relationships shaping the EU’s foreign economic policies: mainly those involving interest groups and governments; governments and the European Commission; and the European Union and international organizations. The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, offer empirically-rich studies of various areas of the EU’s external economic relations including trade, financial regulation, accounting standards and global regulation through the G7/G8. The book is aimed at researchers and advanced students interested in the EU, international economic relations, and principal-agent theory. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Fabrizio Colimberti
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783668903029

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Frontex. A principal-agent perspective by Fabrizio Colimberti Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 67, University College London (School of Public Policy), language: English, abstract: The purpose of this research focuses on one of the latest and most significant development of Justice, Freedom and Security policies of the EU: the creation of FRONTEX, the Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union, established in 2004 and operational since 2005. In particular, this paper will utilise a principal-agent perspective in an attempt to explain why Frontex has been established, what roles the various institutions played in the process of, and the context behind, its creation. The paper argues that Member States established an agency borne out of the need to enhance the Area of Justice, Freedom and Security in the context of the Schengen agreements. Consequently, the paper highlights the deficiencies of the structure, especially regarding its independence from its principals, and its current funding regulation limits, that result in a wide range of tasks and a high dependence from the resources of Member States. However, even if primarily only used in the context of counter-illegal immigration operations, the paper highlights how the agency has been growing steadily in power and resources, and represents a first fundamental step towards an effective communitarisation of border management that could lead, in the long term, to the establishment of a European Border Police.

Author : Darren G. Hawkins,David A. Lake,Daniel L. Nielson,Michael J. Tierney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139458818

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Delegation and Agency in International Organizations by Darren G. Hawkins,David A. Lake,Daniel L. Nielson,Michael J. Tierney Pdf

Why do states delegate certain tasks and responsibilities to international organizations rather than acting unilaterally or cooperating directly? Furthermore, to what extent do states continue to control IOs once authority has been delegated? Examining a variety of different institutions including the World Trade Organization, the United Nations and the European Commission, this book explores the different methods that states employ to ensure their interests are being served, and identifies the problems involved with monitoring and managing IOs. The contributors suggest that it is not inherently more difficult to design effective delegation mechanisms at international level than at domestic level and, drawing on principal-agent theory, help explain the variations that exist in the extent to which states are willing to delegate to IOs. They argue that IOs are neither all evil nor all virtuous, but are better understood as bureaucracies that can be controlled to varying degrees by their political masters.

Author : Mark A. Pollack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199251186

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The Engines of European Integration by Mark A. Pollack Pdf

This study of delegation and agency in the European Union, examines the role of supranational actors like the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament in the process of European integration and in contemporary EU governance.

Author : Robert W. Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783266759

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Applications of Principal-agent Theory to Agricultural Land Use Policy by Robert W. Fraser Pdf

This book is a collection of the author's published research which analyses and evaluates the EU's agricultural land use policy. This policy has evolved over the last two decades from voluntary set-aside to "compliance" set-aside to environmental stewardship, and this research is based on using the principal-agent methodology as a consistent framework of economic analysis. In addition, the book contains an introduction to the principal-agent methodology and to the historical development of agricultural land use policy in the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy). There are also literature-based introductions to each major part of the book (Parts A and B), as well as some reflections and forward-looking comments on policy design lessons from this research, which will be of use to students, academics and policymakers.

Author : Erik Jones,Amy Verdun
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415340632

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The Political Economy of European Integration by Erik Jones,Amy Verdun Pdf

This book provides an accessible introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration. It presents a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration.

Author : Arnout Geeraert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137517794

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The EU in International Sports Governance by Arnout Geeraert Pdf

Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont,David Martimort
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400829453

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The Theory of Incentives by Jean-Jacques Laffont,David Martimort Pdf

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking. In this book, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort present the most thorough yet accessible introduction to incentives theory to date. Central to this theory is a simple question as pivotal to modern-day management as it is to economics research: What makes people act in a particular way in an economic or business situation? In seeking an answer, the authors provide the methodological tools to design institutions that can ensure good incentives for economic agents. This book focuses on the principal-agent model, the "simple" situation where a principal, or company, delegates a task to a single agent through a contract--the essence of management and contract theory. How does the owner or manager of a firm align the objectives of its various members to maximize profits? Following a brief historical overview showing how the problem of incentives has come to the fore in the past two centuries, the authors devote the bulk of their work to exploring principal-agent models and various extensions thereof in light of three types of information problems: adverse selection, moral hazard, and non-verifiability. Offering an unprecedented look at a subject vital to industrial organization, labor economics, and behavioral economics, this book is set to become the definitive resource for students, researchers, and others who might find themselves pondering what contracts, and the incentives they embody, are really all about.

Author : JOHANN ROBERT. BASEDOW
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 0367890577

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The Eu in the Global Investment Regime by JOHANN ROBERT. BASEDOW Pdf

This book provides an accessible introduction to international investment policy and seeks to explain how the EU became an actor in the global investment regime.

Author : Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199572496

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Experimentalist Governance in the European Union by Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin Pdf

This book brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of European and American scholars to analyze the core theoretical features of the EU's new experimentalist governance architecture and explore its empirical development across a series of key policy domains.

Author : Sieglinde Gstöhl,Simon Schunz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350928824

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The External Action of the European Union by Sieglinde Gstöhl,Simon Schunz Pdf

This groundbreaking new textbook offers extensive coverage of EU External Action studies, from its major concepts to the key theories in the field. Over the past decades, the European Union has progressively developed into a significant global actor in an increasing number of policy fields. This long-awaited volume looks into different ways of conceptualizing the EU as a global actor, the processes and impact of EU external action, explanations offered by IR and integration theories, the discursive, normative, practice and gender 'turns', and the 'decentring agenda' for EU external action. The book offers a reader-friendly guidance on these various ways in which to study the EU as a global actor: each chapter introduces one concept, approach or theory and illustrates its application by a case study of EU external action. In drawing the different perspectives together, the book underscores that 'EU External Action Studies' is becoming an academic speciality in its own right. Written by leading experts, the volume will make essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners of EU external action. EU External Action Studies nowadays attract attention from scholars and students in International Relations (IR), Foreign Policy Analysis and (interdisciplinary) EU Studies, as well as from practitioners.

Author : Mark A. Pollack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191530647

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The Engines of European Integration by Mark A. Pollack Pdf

The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament. In The Engines of European Integration, the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics, Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation, agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents, and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration. In the first part of the book, Pollack analyses the historical and functional patterns of delegation to the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the Parliament, suggesting that delegation to the first two is motivated by a desire to reduce the transaction costs of EU policymaking, as predicted by principal-agent models, while delegation of powers to the Parliament fits poorly with such models, and primarily reflects a concern by member governments to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the Union. The second part of the book focuses on the role of supranational agents in both the liberalization and the re-regulation of the European market, and suggests that the Commission, Court, and Parliament have indeed played a causally important role alongside member governments as "the engines of integration," but that their ability to do so has varied historically and across issue-areas as a function of the discretion delegated to them by the member governments.

Author : Mark Bovens,Robert E. Goodin,Thomas Schillemans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199641253

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The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability by Mark Bovens,Robert E. Goodin,Thomas Schillemans Pdf

Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.