European Union Agencies: A global governance perspective
| Autor: | Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar, Jacint Jordana |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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supranationalism
transnationalism Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences intergovernmentalism Public good Global governance 0506 political science Power (social and political) global governance Plea Sovereignty Order (exchange) Political science 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance Economic system European union Function (engineering) 050203 business & management EU agencies media_common |
| Popis: | European Union agencies have been studied explicitly or implicitly from two distinct perspectives: an intergovernmental and a supranational point of view. Both relate to broader dynamics that aim to understand the forces that EU agencies respond to. However, different authors have pointed out that both perspectives can be observed simultaneously in EU agencies. This is because they combine intergovernmental coordination and access to supranational power with different intensities under conditions of institutional isolation and a strong professional identity. This article takes as its starting point this integrating vision and argues that EU agencies function as a new type of regional trans-governmental body that is flexible, adapts to the new age of global governance and actively participates in it. The paper discusses the literature on EU agencies along these lines and concludes with a plea to favour an analysis that includes global governance to understand how these bodies operate in transnational spaces. The fragmentation of sovereignty into multiple levels and regulatory spaces, where complex sectorial systems take on a global dimension to produce public goods, requires articulating hybrid institutional structures. EU agencies respond perfectly to this need as their institutional design endows them with a strong capacity for multilevel interaction. This study was supported by the TransCrisis project (grant number 649484) under the European Union Horizon 2020 programme. |
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