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Legislative direction of regulatory bureaucracies: evidence from a semi-presidential system
- Source :
- Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Legislative Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2021, pp.Online. ⟨10.1080/13572334.2021.1986281⟩, Journal of Legislative Studies,-Online (2021-10)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2021.
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Abstract
- Independent regulatory agency has become the standard institutional choice in Western Europe. Little is known, however, about the involvement of legislators in their design and in their monitoring. In this paper, we analyse ex-ante and ex-post legislative involvement for 48 regulatory agencies enacted in France. We show that legislators debate and design more substantially agencies for which the government bill has already granted them more powers to appoint members to their board, or to be appointed as board members themselves. Once enacted, agencies that allow greater participation by legislators in their decision-making are subject to greater scrutiny, and this even after controlling for routine oversight activities. Regulatory domains matter, though only for ex-post legislative oversight. These results suggest that legislative involvement is selective and driven by strategic considerations. More fundamentally, they imply that legislative involvement could be more important in regulatory agency activities than usually assumed.
- Subjects :
- Semi-presidential system
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05 social sciences
Legislature
regulation
Public administration
16. Peace & justice
semi-presidential
oversight
[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science
0506 political science
Western europe
Political science
0502 economics and business
Political Science and International Relations
Agency (sociology)
agency
050602 political science & public administration
Bureaucracy
Regulatory agency
France
050207 economics
Law
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13572334
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Legislative Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2021, pp.Online. ⟨10.1080/13572334.2021.1986281⟩, Journal of Legislative Studies,-Online (2021-10)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0dcabe0cbdb4c50b5aa97610f56b648f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2021.1986281⟩