Agency Escape
Decentralization or Dominance of the European Commission in the Modernization of Competition Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7786120 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Wilk (0000-0001-6382-6895, University of Exeter, corresponding author), Stephen Wilks |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431-452 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2005.00283.x |
| OpenAlex | W2165759449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 14 |
The "modernization" reforms of European antitrust are summarized and interpreted. The article uses principal–agent analysis enhanced by socio-institutional insights. The reforms in policy implementation are of historic importance. While they appear to promise decentralization to national competition authorities, more sophisticated analysis points to an increase in the centralized power of the Commission. The novel instrument of a supranational European Competition Network creates a redesigned relationship between the Commission and the member states that carries high risks of incoherence. Modernization driven by a legal epistemic community carries a less obvious risk that increased power of competition policy will unduly reinforce liberal market disciplines through a juridification of the European competition regime
Agency (philosophy · Commission · Competition (biology · Competition policy · Decentralization · Dominance (genetics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · European commission · European union · International trade · Market economy · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Merger and Competition Analysis · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Finance
Rising market power and its political discontents
The ascendancy of neoliberal competition regulation in the European community / A ascensão da regulação concorrencial de caráter neoliberal na Comunidade Europeia
Learning from Difference
Rethinking international subsidy rules
Reinforcing each other
On Government, Governance and Judicial Review
La fin de l’État stratège
Restructurer le secteur de l’énergie
Transferts institutionnels et politiques de concurrence
The New EU Industrial Policy
Out of tune or well tempered? How competition agencies direct the orchestrating state
Legalism without adversarialism
Reconceptualizing European Union regulatory networks
Le gouvernement de l’Union européenne revisité
Functional and normative delegation to non-majoritarian institutions
How the European Union reconciles uniform regulation with legitimate diversity
Revisiting 50 years of market-making
Managing Heterogeneity in the EU
The Challenges and Trajectories of EU Competition Policy in the Twenty-first Century
Permission to bail out EU’s national flag carriers? Technocratic and political determinants of commission approval of state aid to national airlines in difficulties in the pre-Covid era
Transnational Bureaucratic Politics
Judicial Scrutiny of Merger Decisions in the Eu, Uk and Germany
Reshaping european regulatory space
Brandeis in Brussels ? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union
Network Governance and Multi-level Delegation
Internal network structures as opportunity structures
Discretion by the rules
Filling the gap in the European administrative space
The creation of European regulatory agencies and its limits
How to tame the beast
Institutional compliance, European networks of regulation and the bureaucratic autonomy of national regulatory authorities
Trade Politics Ain't What It Used to Be
The European Commission's Fight against Cartels (1962–2014)
Getting State Aid Approved by the European Commission
Competition and Antitrust Policy in the Enlarged European Union
Legitimacy and Multi‐Level Governance in European Union Competition Law
Europäisches Regieren in der Kartellkontrolle – Probleme und Perspektiven politischer Steuerung durch hierarchisierte transgouvernementale Netzwerke
Bringing Regulatory Processes Back In
Conceptualizing and theorizingEUregulatory networks
Empirical and theoretical studies in EU lobbying
Mind the trend! Enforcement of EU law has been moving to ‘Brussels
New interventionism
EU competition policy
The Centralization of EU Competition Policy
The Impact of Independence on Regulatory Outcomes
Enhanced Roles of Private Actors in EU Business Regulation and the Erosion of Rhenish Capitalism
Competition Policy in Action
Accountability in Global Governance
Ordoliberal Lessons for Economic Stability
Delegation in EU merger control
State infrastructural power through scalar practices
Juridification of Social Spheres
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Regulating Europe
The European Commission
Rational Fictions
The Unanticipated Consequences of Creating Independent Competition Agencies
Courts and (epistemic) communities in the convergence of competition policies
Two Logics of Delegation
European Journal of Political Research
Dimensions and types of policy networks
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,68 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |