Michelle Egan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Egan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Egan |
| SIGNATURE | EGAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0946-9175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Single markets, federalism and governance in the US and EU
There is often a disconnect between the EU and US single markets, as the US is often touted as a model for the EU to emulate. While the political achievement of the European single market reflects a deep commitment to address internal market barriers, the United States maintains many interstate barriers that the EU has consciously tried to alleviate over the last half century. This article highlights two explanations to address this puzzle. First…
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of Etsi
Standards are the foundation of global trade facilitating the compatibility and interoperability of goods and services through institutional coordination to reduce transaction costs, shape technological choices, and market access. Such private transnational rulemaking has faced increased competition in key technological sectors. In Europe, ETSI has been critical for the European telecommunications market in the aftermath of liberalization of nati…
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU
While scholarship on paradiplomacy vis-à-vis the European Union has primarily focused on European regions, this article analyses third-country subnational engagement with the EU and assesses the paradiplomatic strategies of two US states: California and Illinois. Although both states engage with the EU for economic reasons rather than for interest representation, Illinois prioritises market access, whilst California focuses on regulatory issues. …
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: Role adaptation and contestation in trade policy
Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered by the perceived constraints of European membership. This …
Trade contestation and regional politics: The case of Belgium and Germany
In developing an extensive network of trade agreements, the European Union has pushed for liberalization commitments that impinge on the competencies of subnational jurisdictions. This raises new challenges in federal systems as the emerging multilevel character of trade politics means subnational authorities could increasingly demand a say in the negotiation or ratification of these trade agreements. To address the tension between subnational re…
EU Single Market(s) after Brexit
This article focuses on the European single market, which has been one of the central issues in terms of the impacts of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. As the aim of the single market project is to open the internal borders of the EU to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor to create cross-jurisdictional markets, the economic and political effects of Brexit will be widespread, if not yet fully understood, outside the British …
The dynamics of federalism, subnational markets and trade policy-making in Canada and the US
Preferential trade agreements are now the dominant trend in the international trading regime. Unlike earlier ‘first generation’ agreements, the new agreements became more comprehensive in their coverage, impinging on areas that are subject to subnational jurisdiction of federal systems. Given constitutionally-prescribed competences allocated to subnational governments, the diversity of interests and sensitivities of subnational entities bring dee…
The Single Market: Trade Barriers and Trade Remedies
In this article we investigate how well the single market functions in practice by examining barriers to trade in goods markets and we discuss efforts to improve the governance of the single market. We use two unique datasets of specific trade obstacles to empirically examine which barriers continue to undermine EU cross‐border trade, and whether non‐judicial remedies have provided some degree of effective informal market governance in tackling t…
Narratives, norms and governability in the European Union: An Introduction
This collection highlights the challenges of policy co-ordination at both the national and European level. Several contributions highlight efforts to improve overall performance under the guise of efficiency and economy of legislative outcomes that can generate some of the same problems of accountability, transparency and legitimacy facing governing coalitions. Given the increasing importance of global governance, additional contributions also il…
Governance and learning in the post-Maastricht era
There has been an expansion of research on policy learning in different subfields. The methodological and empirical work continues to face challenges in determining the constitutive elements that foster such transformations in governance through learning. Careful attention needs to be paid to the regularities and patterns, as well as the limits, contingencies and incongruities that shape or hinder the diffusion of cross-national and cross-tempora…
Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective – Edited by A. Menon and M. Schain
Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s
Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the Institute's series on trade protection in major countries (which already includes the United States, Japan, Korea, and China), this study by Patrick A. Messerlin is the first attempt to measure the impact of all types of protection in the European Union.Messerlin uses partial…
Constructing a European Market: Standards, Regulation, and Governance
The European Union's effort to create a single market involves the removal of trade barriers created by divergent national standards and regulations, which need to be reconciled to promote market access and inter‐state commerce. This book provides a comprehensive account of the regulatory strategies and institutional arrangements adopted by the European Union in promoting the single market. It provides a historical overview and detailed case stud…
Transnational market governance and regional policy externality: Why Recognize Foreign Standards
Addressing non-discriminatory barriers to trade in the form of national standards and regulations has become central to global trade diplomacy.As a result, we increasingly observe a combined delegation of regulatory authority across borders and from the public to the private sectors through the norms of mutual recognition and standardization. This paper asks what the conditions are for such transnational market governance and seeks to explain var…
Between German and Anglo‐Saxon capitalism: The Czech financial markets in transition
Gendered Integration: Social Policies and the European Market
This paper examines the role of the European Union (EU) in advancing the position of women in the European policy arena. While the European Commission and the European Court of Justice have fostered the rights of working women, forcing major revisions in national practice, the EU has defined women's issues narrowly in terms of equal pay and sex discrimination. The EU is unlikely to address some of the major indirect forms of discrimination, such …
Rush to Union: Understanding the European Federal Bargain . David McKay
Gendered integration: Social policies and the European market
Regulatory strategies, delegation and European market integration
The shift in regulatory strategy that accompanied the single market program has enabled the EU to delegate responsibility for setting the rules governing market access to standard-setting bodies. In doing so, the new regulatory regime resulting from this delegation has enabled firms to become dominant players in the policy-making process. This article demonstrates that the resulting regulatory regime has not produced the expected outcomes since f…
Environmental management standards, corporate strategies and policy networks
The establishment of environmental management systems is part of the shift away from command and control policies to more flexible policy instruments, giving firms more scope to decide for themselves what the best practicable options are. As a result of this ‘shared responsibility’ between public and private actors in environmental issues, the development of environmental management systems is a good example of a policy network with a core group …
Modes of business governance: European management styles and corporate cultures
This article examines the role of corporate culture. It highlights the impact that cultural norms and institutional values may play in shaping managerial decision making in German, French, Swedish and British companies. It is argued that corporate culture is crucial to the ability of such organisations to respond to a more integrated, competitive European economy. Rather than assume, as many economics studies have, that businesses are simply 'bla…
Regulatory strategies, delegation and European market integration
The shift in regulatory strategy that accompanied the single market program has enabled the EU to delegate responsibility for setting the rules governing market access to standard-setting bodies. In doing so, the new regulatory regime resulting from this delegation has enabled firms to become dominant players in the policy-making process. This article demonstrates that the resulting regulatory regime has not produced the expected outcomes since f…
Transnational market governance and regional policy externality: Why Recognize Foreign Standards
Addressing non-discriminatory barriers to trade in the form of national standards and regulations has become central to global trade diplomacy.As a result, we increasingly observe a combined delegation of regulatory authority across borders and from the public to the private sectors through the norms of mutual recognition and standardization. This paper asks what the conditions are for such transnational market governance and seeks to explain var…
The Single Market: Trade Barriers and Trade Remedies
In this article we investigate how well the single market functions in practice by examining barriers to trade in goods markets and we discuss efforts to improve the governance of the single market. We use two unique datasets of specific trade obstacles to empirically examine which barriers continue to undermine EU cross‐border trade, and whether non‐judicial remedies have provided some degree of effective informal market governance in tackling t…
Governance and learning in the post-Maastricht era
There has been an expansion of research on policy learning in different subfields. The methodological and empirical work continues to face challenges in determining the constitutive elements that foster such transformations in governance through learning. Careful attention needs to be paid to the regularities and patterns, as well as the limits, contingencies and incongruities that shape or hinder the diffusion of cross-national and cross-tempora…
Narratives, norms and governability in the European Union: An Introduction
This collection highlights the challenges of policy co-ordination at both the national and European level. Several contributions highlight efforts to improve overall performance under the guise of efficiency and economy of legislative outcomes that can generate some of the same problems of accountability, transparency and legitimacy facing governing coalitions. Given the increasing importance of global governance, additional contributions also il…
Modes of business governance: European management styles and corporate cultures
This article examines the role of corporate culture. It highlights the impact that cultural norms and institutional values may play in shaping managerial decision making in German, French, Swedish and British companies. It is argued that corporate culture is crucial to the ability of such organisations to respond to a more integrated, competitive European economy. Rather than assume, as many economics studies have, that businesses are simply 'bla…
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of Etsi
Standards are the foundation of global trade facilitating the compatibility and interoperability of goods and services through institutional coordination to reduce transaction costs, shape technological choices, and market access. Such private transnational rulemaking has faced increased competition in key technological sectors. In Europe, ETSI has been critical for the European telecommunications market in the aftermath of liberalization of nati…
The dynamics of federalism, subnational markets and trade policy-making in Canada and the US
Preferential trade agreements are now the dominant trend in the international trading regime. Unlike earlier ‘first generation’ agreements, the new agreements became more comprehensive in their coverage, impinging on areas that are subject to subnational jurisdiction of federal systems. Given constitutionally-prescribed competences allocated to subnational governments, the diversity of interests and sensitivities of subnational entities bring dee…
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU
While scholarship on paradiplomacy vis-à-vis the European Union has primarily focused on European regions, this article analyses third-country subnational engagement with the EU and assesses the paradiplomatic strategies of two US states: California and Illinois. Although both states engage with the EU for economic reasons rather than for interest representation, Illinois prioritises market access, whilst California focuses on regulatory issues. …
Trade contestation and regional politics: The case of Belgium and Germany
In developing an extensive network of trade agreements, the European Union has pushed for liberalization commitments that impinge on the competencies of subnational jurisdictions. This raises new challenges in federal systems as the emerging multilevel character of trade politics means subnational authorities could increasingly demand a say in the negotiation or ratification of these trade agreements. To address the tension between subnational re…
EU Single Market(s) after Brexit
This article focuses on the European single market, which has been one of the central issues in terms of the impacts of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. As the aim of the single market project is to open the internal borders of the EU to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor to create cross-jurisdictional markets, the economic and political effects of Brexit will be widespread, if not yet fully understood, outside the British …
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: Role adaptation and contestation in trade policy
Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered by the perceived constraints of European membership. This …
Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective – Edited by A. Menon and M. Schain
Between German and Anglo‐Saxon capitalism: The Czech financial markets in transition
Modes of business governance: European management styles and corporate cultures
This article examines the role of corporate culture. It highlights the impact that cultural norms and institutional values may play in shaping managerial decision making in German, French, Swedish and British companies. It is argued that corporate culture is crucial to the ability of such organisations to respond to a more integrated, competitive European economy. Rather than assume, as many economics studies have, that businesses are simply 'bla…
Gendered Integration: Social Policies and the European Market
This paper examines the role of the European Union (EU) in advancing the position of women in the European policy arena. While the European Commission and the European Court of Justice have fostered the rights of working women, forcing major revisions in national practice, the EU has defined women's issues narrowly in terms of equal pay and sex discrimination. The EU is unlikely to address some of the major indirect forms of discrimination, such …
Rush to Union: Understanding the European Federal Bargain . David McKay
Gendered integration: Social policies and the European market
Regulatory strategies, delegation and European market integration
The shift in regulatory strategy that accompanied the single market program has enabled the EU to delegate responsibility for setting the rules governing market access to standard-setting bodies. In doing so, the new regulatory regime resulting from this delegation has enabled firms to become dominant players in the policy-making process. This article demonstrates that the resulting regulatory regime has not produced the expected outcomes since f…
Environmental management standards, corporate strategies and policy networks
The establishment of environmental management systems is part of the shift away from command and control policies to more flexible policy instruments, giving firms more scope to decide for themselves what the best practicable options are. As a result of this ‘shared responsibility’ between public and private actors in environmental issues, the development of environmental management systems is a good example of a policy network with a core group …
Between German and Anglo‐Saxon capitalism: The Czech financial markets in transition
Constructing a European Market: Standards, Regulation, and Governance
The European Union's effort to create a single market involves the removal of trade barriers created by divergent national standards and regulations, which need to be reconciled to promote market access and inter‐state commerce. This book provides a comprehensive account of the regulatory strategies and institutional arrangements adopted by the European Union in promoting the single market. It provides a historical overview and detailed case stud…
Transnational market governance and regional policy externality: Why Recognize Foreign Standards
Addressing non-discriminatory barriers to trade in the form of national standards and regulations has become central to global trade diplomacy.As a result, we increasingly observe a combined delegation of regulatory authority across borders and from the public to the private sectors through the norms of mutual recognition and standardization. This paper asks what the conditions are for such transnational market governance and seeks to explain var…
Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policy in the 2000s
Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the Institute's series on trade protection in major countries (which already includes the United States, Japan, Korea, and China), this study by Patrick A. Messerlin is the first attempt to measure the impact of all types of protection in the European Union.Messerlin uses partial…
Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective – Edited by A. Menon and M. Schain
Governance and learning in the post-Maastricht era
There has been an expansion of research on policy learning in different subfields. The methodological and empirical work continues to face challenges in determining the constitutive elements that foster such transformations in governance through learning. Careful attention needs to be paid to the regularities and patterns, as well as the limits, contingencies and incongruities that shape or hinder the diffusion of cross-national and cross-tempora…
Narratives, norms and governability in the European Union: An Introduction
This collection highlights the challenges of policy co-ordination at both the national and European level. Several contributions highlight efforts to improve overall performance under the guise of efficiency and economy of legislative outcomes that can generate some of the same problems of accountability, transparency and legitimacy facing governing coalitions. Given the increasing importance of global governance, additional contributions also il…
The Single Market: Trade Barriers and Trade Remedies
In this article we investigate how well the single market functions in practice by examining barriers to trade in goods markets and we discuss efforts to improve the governance of the single market. We use two unique datasets of specific trade obstacles to empirically examine which barriers continue to undermine EU cross‐border trade, and whether non‐judicial remedies have provided some degree of effective informal market governance in tackling t…
The dynamics of federalism, subnational markets and trade policy-making in Canada and the US
Preferential trade agreements are now the dominant trend in the international trading regime. Unlike earlier ‘first generation’ agreements, the new agreements became more comprehensive in their coverage, impinging on areas that are subject to subnational jurisdiction of federal systems. Given constitutionally-prescribed competences allocated to subnational governments, the diversity of interests and sensitivities of subnational entities bring dee…
EU Single Market(s) after Brexit
This article focuses on the European single market, which has been one of the central issues in terms of the impacts of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. As the aim of the single market project is to open the internal borders of the EU to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor to create cross-jurisdictional markets, the economic and political effects of Brexit will be widespread, if not yet fully understood, outside the British …
Trade contestation and regional politics: The case of Belgium and Germany
In developing an extensive network of trade agreements, the European Union has pushed for liberalization commitments that impinge on the competencies of subnational jurisdictions. This raises new challenges in federal systems as the emerging multilevel character of trade politics means subnational authorities could increasingly demand a say in the negotiation or ratification of these trade agreements. To address the tension between subnational re…
Made in the USA? The paradiplomatic strategies of California and Illinois to the EU
While scholarship on paradiplomacy vis-à-vis the European Union has primarily focused on European regions, this article analyses third-country subnational engagement with the EU and assesses the paradiplomatic strategies of two US states: California and Illinois. Although both states engage with the EU for economic reasons rather than for interest representation, Illinois prioritises market access, whilst California focuses on regulatory issues. …
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: Role adaptation and contestation in trade policy
Brexit has led to major changes in UK trade policy after decades of collective trade agreements and regulatory alignment with the European Union. Following the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, the idea of ‘Global Britain’ was touted as the central goal in securing policy autonomy and regulatory independence with respect to trade, rooted in a strong sense of liberalization unencumbered by the perceived constraints of European membership. This …
Navigating transatlantic power dynamics in ICT standardization – The case of Etsi
Standards are the foundation of global trade facilitating the compatibility and interoperability of goods and services through institutional coordination to reduce transaction costs, shape technological choices, and market access. Such private transnational rulemaking has faced increased competition in key technological sectors. In Europe, ETSI has been critical for the European telecommunications market in the aftermath of liberalization of nati…
Single markets, federalism and governance in the US and EU
There is often a disconnect between the EU and US single markets, as the US is often touted as a model for the EU to emulate. While the political achievement of the European single market reflects a deep commitment to address internal market barriers, the United States maintains many interstate barriers that the EU has consciously tried to alleviate over the last half century. This article highlights two explanations to address this puzzle. First…
Political science (19 works) · Economics (17 works) · International trade (15 works) · European union (13 works) · Corporate governance (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Law (11 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (10 works)