Wood, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-2972 (2018) Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs. European Journal of Political Research, 57 (2). pp. 404-426. ISSN 0304-4130
Abstract
European Union (EU) agencies are ‘integral in ensuring that regulatory policies can be implemented coherently and consistently throughout the EU’ (Rittberger and Wonka 2012, 3). However, they do not have direct legal power to implement regulations (Busuioc 2013), but usually must rely on fostering their reputation and image among competent member state authorities, businesses, professionals, consumer groups and the media to gain authority. As Gehring and Krapohl (2007, 28) argue, agencies ‘Operate in highly politicized environments and the extent to which they manage to establish themselves as credible regulators will often be dependent on the manner in which they manage their relations with, and competing expectations from, the multiple political actors within their environment’. In short, agencies have to become political entrepreneurs.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. European Journal of Political Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | EU agencies; entrepreneurship; stakeholders; transnational public administration |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/L010925/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2017 11:33 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2023 12:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1475-6765.12232 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117501 |
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