Mark Thatcher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3979649 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Thatcher |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Thatcher |
| FIRMA | THATCHER M |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1089 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Re-politicising merger policy
Populism and cultural heritage policies
Cultural heritage is a central domain for key populist themes of threats to national identity and protection of 'the majority' against cosmopolitan, 'wokist' elites. The article explores how differing government discursive strategies towards populism influence heritage policies. It takes the case of contested public statues. In France, the government has adopted a discursive strategy of 'patriotic Republicanism' that reduced the discursive space …
Thucydides, Segesta and Leontini
Modern accounts of Sicilian history in the late fifth century b.c.e . and its relations with Athens often follow Thucydides’ Athenocentric narrative closely, largely ignoring the Sicilian background. This article instead foregrounds the actions and concerns of two important Sicilian cities, Segesta and Leontini, whose perspectives Thucydides chose to leave out or downplay. In particular, Segesta was involved in the complex cross-cultural dynamics…
Differentiated implementation and European integration
The article examines how differentiated national implementation of EU policies affects later European integration – whether it leads to renewed unified vertical integration, differentiated integration, the status quo or renationalisation. It examines the case of geographical indications (GIs), an EU labelling system for food and drink based on place of origin and processes of production. Despite features such as diverse national interests and gas…
National de‐delegation in multi‐level settings
National politicians in Europe have created independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) with significant powers over markets such as communications and energy. After delegation, they have engaged in institutional politicization of IRAs and undertaken numerous attempted or actual de‐delegations. Yet overall de‐delegation over the period 2000–2020 has been limited, as many de‐delegations have been abandoned, temporary or reversed, and also counterbalanc…
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions
Elected governments and states have delegated extensive powers to non‐majoritarian institutions (NMIs) such as independent central banks and regulatory agencies, courts, and international trade and investment organizations, which have become central actors in governance. But, far from having resolved the balance between political control and governing competence or removed certain issues from political debate, NMIs have faced challenges to their …
Constructing the EU's Political Identity
Constructing the EU's Political Identity
The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
This book offers the first sustained analysis of the politics of collective identity in Greek Sicily and southern Italy during the period c. 600–200 BCE. It advances two main arguments. First, the western Greeks constructed multiple identities, including a separate polis identity for each city-state, sub-Hellenic ethnicities such as Dorian and Ionian, regional identities, and an overarching sense of Greekness. The book untangles the many overlapp…
Continuity and Change in the Third Century
This chapter uses two case studies to explore how identities both changed and stayed the same under the changing conditions of the Hellenistic period. First, in southern Italy, Hellenic identity gained increasing prominence, especially at Taras, which understood the growing presence of non-Greeks (including Rome) as a barbarian invasion and invited Pyrrhus to assist it in support of Greekness. This discourse was not universal, however, since othe…
Shifting Identities in Thucydides’s Sicily
This chapter explores the politics of identity in the Sicilian theater of the Peloponnesian War. Initially, most poleis in Sicily formed alliances based on ethnicity (either Dorian or Ionian), a form of kinship diplomacy that was typical in Greek politics. Camarina, however, allied with the Ionians despite being Dorian due to its unique polis identity, which had been shaped by hostility toward its mother city, Syracuse. Political decisions were t…
Conclusion
The conclusion uses the Second Punic War as a test case for the results reached throughout the book. Hannibal attempted to insert himself into Croton’s polis identity by associating himself with Hera Lacinia, even as Croton itself asserted its Greekness in opposition to the Bruttians. Multiple identities thus impacted the politics of the city and the region, just as they had for centuries. The remainder of the conclusion recapitulates the main ar…
Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics
This chapter looks at how tyrants of Syracuse—the Deinomenids, Gelon and Hieron, in the fifth century and Dionysius I in the fourth—manipulated and reshaped three different identities to create legitimacy for their positions: Syracusan polis identity, Dorian ethnicity, and Greekness. Hieron emphasized Dorian ethnicity as a way of unifying his expansive domains. He also reoriented Syracusan polis identity to focus on the city’s urban landscape, es…
Becoming Achaean in Italy
This chapter examines the Achaeans of southern Italy through case studies of two communities, Croton and Metapontion. It first examines the creation of Achaean ethnicity, which occurred not through a single shared process but rather through a series of conflicts between different Greek communities in Italy. Croton articulated its ethnic and polis identities in intertwining ways, through a series of foundation myths, coins, and a prominent cult of…
Constructing the EU’s political identity in policy making
Direct and market governance paths for the creation of an EU political identity
EU political identity, integration and top-down analyses
Contestants, profiteers, and the political dynamics of marketization
State production of cultural nationalism
Although cultural and political nationalism have often been treated as separate, recent studies argue that they are linked because the state produces policies such as promotion of cultural heritage to further nation building. The article examines the conditions that favour national political leaders adopting policies to protect historic buildings for aims of political nationalism. It compares France and Italy, focusing on the period after 1870. I…
Introduction
Historic buildings are important in nationalism through their roles in building and reinforcing national identity. As part of the expanding ‘heritage industry’, they are also of growing economic and political importance. Despite their physical existence, historic buildings are ‘created’ – they must be constructed as ‘historic’ through processes of choice and the attachment of significance. The state can perform these functions through policies th…
Overseas state outsiders as new sources of patient capital
Strong debates in the varieties of capitalism literature as to whether financial liberalization and internationalization undermine ‘insider’ corporate governance systems based on patient capital in coordinated and state-led market economies have focused on ‘impatient’ overseas private capital. However, cross-border state investment has also grown. We examine government policies towards a prominent type of state investment-equity purchases by sove…
Issue Networks
Why are neoliberal ideas so resilient in Europe’s political economy
Despite the economic crisis that hit full force in 2008 in the US and Europe, political leaders have made little attempt to rethink the neoliberal ideas that are in large part responsible for the boom and bust, let alone to come to terms with how immoderate the ‘Great Moderation’ really was. Much the contrary, neoliberal ideas seem to continue to constitute the ruling ideas. In the financial markets, where the crisis began, reregulation remains w…
Les réseaux de politique publique
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism
Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, first elaboarted in detail in the book Varieties of Capitalism (OUP, 2001), this book critically analyzes these developments in the European political economy and their effects on the…
Theory and Practice of Delegation to Non-Majoritarian Institutions
A transformation in governance has swept across Western Europe. During the past half-century, states, executives, and parliaments have empowered an increasing number of non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) to make public policy. In the fields of utility regulation, telecommunications, antitrust, and media pluralism, and even in the provision of health and welfare benefits, myriad independent regulatory bodies have been created and become the loci…
Network Governance and Multi-level Delegation
European networks of regulators in industries such as telecommunications, securities, energy and transport have been cited as important examples of the growth of network governance in Europe. Using a principal-agent perspective as a starting point, the article examines why a double delegation to networks of regulators has taken place. It looks at how and why the European Commission, national governments and independent regulatory agencies have dr…
Delegation to Independent Regulatory Agencies
Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) have spread across many domains in Western Europe. The article examines selected examples in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. A functionalist analysis of the pressures on elected officials and the functions that IRAs perform provide a valuable starting point for analysis. Nevertheless, it confronts cross-national and cross-domain variations in the timing of the creation of IRAs, their spread and their in…
Regulation after delegation
Three aspects of the life of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) after delegation are examined: their independence from elected ofcials, their relationship with regulatees; their decision-making processes. The article suggests that IRAs enjoy considerable insulation from elected politicians in terms of party politicization and tenure. The evidence for relations between IRAs and business regulatees is more mixed: the two have been relatively se…
Reshaping european regulatory space
The article examines European institutions for implementing EU regulation. It assesses their development using seven different models that have been introduced or discussed for organising implementation. It argues that the development of European regulatory space has followed an evolutionary pattern involving gradual reshaping through a series of steps, with previous stages influencing later stages and institutions being built on existing structu…
The Development of Policy Network Analyses
From modest origins as specific types of state-interest group relations, policy network approaches have developed in a series of phases, with the appearance of network typologies, interorganizational analyses and diversified frameworks. To understand and judge network approaches, it is necessary to analyse their achievements relative to their ambitions. Such an analysis shows that each phase has seen expansion of the scope and ambitions, as appro…
The Third Force? Independent Regulatory Agencies and Elected Politicians in Europe
Governments and legislatures in Europe have created or greatly strengthened independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). Yet they also retain many formal controls over those agencies. The article analyzes whether elected politicians have used their powers to create IRAs in their own image and kept IRAs under tight control or whether they have allowed IRAs to become a distinct set of actors, hence a "third force" in regulation. Principal?agent (PA) the…
The New Governance of Markets and Non-Majoritarian Regulators
The creation of European regulatory agencies and its limits
Agency creation at the European Union (EU) level differs from that at the national one. European regulatory agencies (ERAs) have limited formal powers and separation from other actors, resembling networks rather than stand-alone agencies. ERAs for economic regulation have been created later and in smaller numbers than for social regulation. Using a historical rational analysis, this paper argues that past delegations to other non-majoritarian ins…
Analysing regulatory reform in Europe
The volume examines changes in regulatory rules, organizations and policies across several European countries and policy domains, why these changes have taken place and their consequences. The 'regulatory state' hypothesis suggests that regulatory reforms involve a new mode of governance in Europe, with alterations in state functions, political arenas, institutions, actors and policy styles. The volume finds that although several features put for…
Varieties of Capitalism in an Internationalized World
This article examines how internationalization affects domestic decisions about the reform of market institutions. A developing literature argues that nations maintain different “varieties of capitalism” in the face of economic globalization because of diverse domestic settings. However, in an internationalized world, powerful forces for change applying across border scan affect decision making within domestic arenas. The article therefore analyz…
Reversing delegation? Politicization, de‐delegation, and non‐majoritarian institutions
Elected governments and states have delegated extensive powers to non‐majoritarian institutions (NMIs) such as independent central banks and regulatory agencies, courts, and international trade and investment organizations, which have become central actors in governance. But, far from having resolved the balance between political control and governing competence or removed certain issues from political debate, NMIs have faced challenges to their …
Winners and Losers in Europeanisation
2004). Winners and Losers in Europeanisation: Reforming the National Regulation of Telecommunications. West European Politics: Vol. 27, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe, pp. 284-309
The Commission and national governments as partners
General integrationist models underline conicts between the Com- mission and national governments. They cite telecommunications as an exemplar of the Commission imposing its choices on unwilling member states. However, a close examination of the development of substantive EC regulation in telecommunica- tions shows that the Commission and national governments acted in partnership. Major conicts concerned constitutional issues rather than substant…
Regulatory agencies, the state and markets
The article compares independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for markets in France and Britain. It relates the case to broader debates about the extent to which one regulatory state has spread across Europe, breaking sharply with previous institutions and policies, or whether different countries representing different 'varieties of capitalism' have followed distinct adjustment paths with strong continuities with the past. Looking at network indust…
EuropeanCommission merger control
The article examines theEuropeanCommission's use of its legal powers over mergers. It discusses and tests two views. One is that the ‘neoliberal’Commission has ended previous industrial policies of aiding ‘national champion’ firms to grow through mergers and instead pursues a ‘merger‐constraining’ policy of vigorously using its legal powers to block mergers. The other is that theCommission follows an ‘integrationist policy’ of seeking the develop…
Why are neoliberal ideas so resilient in Europe’s political economy
Despite the economic crisis that hit full force in 2008 in the US and Europe, political leaders have made little attempt to rethink the neoliberal ideas that are in large part responsible for the boom and bust, let alone to come to terms with how immoderate the ‘Great Moderation’ really was. Much the contrary, neoliberal ideas seem to continue to constitute the ruling ideas. In the financial markets, where the crisis began, reregulation remains w…
Introduction
Historic buildings are important in nationalism through their roles in building and reinforcing national identity. As part of the expanding ‘heritage industry’, they are also of growing economic and political importance. Despite their physical existence, historic buildings are ‘created’ – they must be constructed as ‘historic’ through processes of choice and the attachment of significance. The state can perform these functions through policies th…
Institutions, regulation, and change
1998). Institutions, regulation, and change: New regulatory agencies in the British privatised utilities. West European Politics: Vol. 21, Britain in the Nineties the Politics of Paradox, pp. 120-147
National de‐delegation in multi‐level settings
National politicians in Europe have created independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) with significant powers over markets such as communications and energy. After delegation, they have engaged in institutional politicization of IRAs and undertaken numerous attempted or actual de‐delegations. Yet overall de‐delegation over the period 2000–2020 has been limited, as many de‐delegations have been abandoned, temporary or reversed, and also counterbalanc…
State production of cultural nationalism
Although cultural and political nationalism have often been treated as separate, recent studies argue that they are linked because the state produces policies such as promotion of cultural heritage to further nation building. The article examines the conditions that favour national political leaders adopting policies to protect historic buildings for aims of political nationalism. It compares France and Italy, focusing on the period after 1870. I…
Overseas state outsiders as new sources of patient capital
Strong debates in the varieties of capitalism literature as to whether financial liberalization and internationalization undermine ‘insider’ corporate governance systems based on patient capital in coordinated and state-led market economies have focused on ‘impatient’ overseas private capital. However, cross-border state investment has also grown. We examine government policies towards a prominent type of state investment-equity purchases by sove…
Regulating the Regulators
Journal Article Regulating the Regulators: The Regulatory Regime for the British Privatised Utilities Get access MARK THATCHER MARK THATCHER *Lecturer in Public Administration and Public Policy, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 209–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028785 Published: 01 April 1998
Populism and cultural heritage policies
Cultural heritage is a central domain for key populist themes of threats to national identity and protection of 'the majority' against cosmopolitan, 'wokist' elites. The article explores how differing government discursive strategies towards populism influence heritage policies. It takes the case of contested public statues. In France, the government has adopted a discursive strategy of 'patriotic Republicanism' that reduced the discursive space …
Syracusan Identity Between Tyranny and Democracy
The city of Syracuse saw enormous social changes in the first half of the fifth century BCE, as the Deinomenid tyranny gave way to a more democratic constitution. In particular, the tyrants' extension of citizenship to some 10,000 former mercenaries was accompanied by shifting conceptions of Syracusan civic identity. The ideological program of Hieron, found in Pindar and on coinage, promoted a version of civic identity that focused on the city's …
Regulatory reform in Britain and France
The article examines the empirical validity of ‘new’ or ‘historical’ explanations of policy‐making by looking at regulatory reform, and in particular the effects of differing organizational structures in Britain and France on the extension of competition in the telecommunications sector during the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that the nature of the widening of competition differed between the two countries, in terms of the processes of policy forma…
Institutions, regulation, and change
1998). Institutions, regulation, and change: New regulatory agencies in the British privatised utilities. West European Politics: Vol. 21, Britain in the Nineties the Politics of Paradox, pp. 120-147
Regulating the Regulators
Journal Article Regulating the Regulators: The Regulatory Regime for the British Privatised Utilities Get access MARK THATCHER MARK THATCHER *Lecturer in Public Administration and Public Policy, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 209–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028785 Published: 01 April 1998
The Development of Policy Network Analyses
From modest origins as specific types of state-interest group relations, policy network approaches have developed in a series of phases, with the appearance of network typologies, interorganizational analyses and diversified frameworks. To understand and judge network approaches, it is necessary to analyse their achievements relative to their ambitions. Such an analysis shows that each phase has seen expansion of the scope and ambitions, as appro…
National Institutions, Policy, and Change
This chapter summarizes the findings of the book. It relates the empirical findings of the case study to the claims made for national institutions and to national institutionalist analyses of policy making examined in Chapter 1. It argues that several central tenets of ‘national institutionalism’ are supported by the evidence of the case of telecommunication in Britain and France between 1969 and 1997, notably by the existence of different instit…
The Politics of Telecommunications
This book confronts some of the most important questions related to liberalization, regulation, and the role of the nation state in an increasingly international economy. In the face of powerful transnational pressure for change, to what extent are states able to maintain stable institutional frameworks? Do different domestic structures generate dissimilar patterns of policy making and economic performance? How important are past institutional ch…
The Commission and national governments as partners
General integrationist models underline conicts between the Com- mission and national governments. They cite telecommunications as an exemplar of the Commission imposing its choices on unwilling member states. However, a close examination of the development of substantive EC regulation in telecommunica- tions shows that the Commission and national governments acted in partnership. Major conicts concerned constitutional issues rather than substant…
Regulation after delegation
Three aspects of the life of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) after delegation are examined: their independence from elected ofcials, their relationship with regulatees; their decision-making processes. The article suggests that IRAs enjoy considerable insulation from elected politicians in terms of party politicization and tenure. The evidence for relations between IRAs and business regulatees is more mixed: the two have been relatively se…
Analysing regulatory reform in Europe
The volume examines changes in regulatory rules, organizations and policies across several European countries and policy domains, why these changes have taken place and their consequences. The 'regulatory state' hypothesis suggests that regulatory reforms involve a new mode of governance in Europe, with alterations in state functions, political arenas, institutions, actors and policy styles. The volume finds that although several features put for…
Theory and Practice of Delegation to Non-Majoritarian Institutions
A transformation in governance has swept across Western Europe. During the past half-century, states, executives, and parliaments have empowered an increasing number of non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) to make public policy. In the fields of utility regulation, telecommunications, antitrust, and media pluralism, and even in the provision of health and welfare benefits, myriad independent regulatory bodies have been created and become the loci…
Delegation to Independent Regulatory Agencies
Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) have spread across many domains in Western Europe. The article examines selected examples in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. A functionalist analysis of the pressures on elected officials and the functions that IRAs perform provide a valuable starting point for analysis. Nevertheless, it confronts cross-national and cross-domain variations in the timing of the creation of IRAs, their spread and their in…
Concurrence ou complémentarité
Competition or Complementarity ? About Delegation of Responsibility Governments have a personal interest in delegating power to a regulation authority: they thus place certain rules out of the reach of changing majorities, deal with the technicity inherent in certain areas, have decisions accepted which they do not wish to take. New modes of regulation thus supplement government more than compete with it
L'impact de la Lolf
The Impact of the Act on Public Finance Laws (LOLF) : Key Issues in the Strategic Round table organised at ENA on September 30,2003 The Act on public finance laws (LOLF) not only provides for a new set of budgetary rules. It introduces a change of considerable amplitude, to the extent that it will give rise to a new type of management and a new concept of the administration, based on piloting through results. This deep transformation raises a cer…
Winners and Losers in Europeanisation
2004). Winners and Losers in Europeanisation: Reforming the National Regulation of Telecommunications. West European Politics: Vol. 27, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe, pp. 284-309
Varieties of Capitalism in an Internationalized World
This article examines how internationalization affects domestic decisions about the reform of market institutions. A developing literature argues that nations maintain different “varieties of capitalism” in the face of economic globalization because of diverse domestic settings. However, in an internationalized world, powerful forces for change applying across border scan affect decision making within domestic arenas. The article therefore analyz…
Regulatory Innovation
The Third Force? Independent Regulatory Agencies and Elected Politicians in Europe
Governments and legislatures in Europe have created or greatly strengthened independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). Yet they also retain many formal controls over those agencies. The article analyzes whether elected politicians have used their powers to create IRAs in their own image and kept IRAs under tight control or whether they have allowed IRAs to become a distinct set of actors, hence a "third force" in regulation. Principal?agent (PA) the…
The New Governance of Markets and Non-Majoritarian Regulators
Internationalisation and Economic Institutions
The book examines when, how, and why internationalisation affects decisions about national economic institutions. It confronts questions at the heart of debates in political economy and comparative politics. What does internationalisation of markets mean? Who are its carriers in domestic arenas? Through which mechanisms does it operate? What are its effects on institutional reform? To respond to these questions, the book develops a ‘policy analys…
Beyond Varieties of Capitalism
Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the 1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement, and monetary unification. Building on the influential Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) perspective, this book critically analyses these developments in the European political economy and their effects on the continental European economies. The chapters include debate about how …
Introduction
This introductory chapter ties together themes running through all the chapters in this volume. It discusses critiques of the Varieties of Capitalism or VoC approach in four areas in which it has proven most vulnerable to criticism, and proposes a framework to address these. First, the chapter analyses the role of political and distributive struggles in generating change and adjustment. Second, it reconsiders the nature and function of complement…
Reforming National Regulatory Institutions
Regulatory institutions offer a powerful means to coordinate firms with other actors, notably state actors, and hence create institutional advantages. Until the mid-1980s, changes in institutions for the regulation of network industries such as telecommunications, energy and transport followed the predictions of the Varieties of capitalism model. Thus, Britain privatised and liberalised, France followed a grands projets strategy, and Germany one …
The European Union and the Regulation of Media Markets ‐ by Alison Harcourt
Regulatory agencies, the state and markets
The article compares independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) for markets in France and Britain. It relates the case to broader debates about the extent to which one regulatory state has spread across Europe, breaking sharply with previous institutions and policies, or whether different countries representing different 'varieties of capitalism' have followed distinct adjustment paths with strong continuities with the past. Looking at network indust…
Reshaping european regulatory space
The article examines European institutions for implementing EU regulation. It assesses their development using seven different models that have been introduced or discussed for organising implementation. It argues that the development of European regulatory space has followed an evolutionary pattern involving gradual reshaping through a series of steps, with previous stages influencing later stages and institutions being built on existing structu…
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