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Browsing RSCAS Articles by Author "HERITIER, Adrienne"
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Title:Institutional Change in Europe: Co-decision and comitology transformed
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explains how institutional rules change after they have been established in two important areas of European decision-making: co-decision and comitology. It shows how legislation under co-decision was transformed ...
Title:The New Institutions of Transatlantic Aviation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; KARAGIANNIS, YannisDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article focuses on the institutions of transatlantic aviation since 1945, and aims at extracting from this historical process topical policy implications. Using the methodology of an analytic narrative, we describe ...
Title:New Modes of Governance and Democratic Accountability
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; LEHMKUHL, DirkDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article raises the question of the link between new modes of governance and democratic accountability. Our definition of new modes of governance as modes refers to public policy-making that includes private actors ...
Title:The Informal Politics of Legislation: Explaining secluded decision making in the European Union
Author(s):REH, Christine; HERITIER, Adrienne; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; KOOP, ChristelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the shift of legislative decision making from public inclusive to informal secluded arenas and the subsequent adoption of legislation as “early ...
Title:Contested Delegation: The Impact of Co-decision on Comitology
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MOURY, CatherineDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article shows that, for the area of environmental policy, the Commission and the Council have been more willing to rely on extensive delegation after the introduction of co-decision. It also shows that the tendency ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations. Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do associations engage in self-regulation and how do they tackle the specific ...
Title:The Firm as an Inspector: Private Ordering and Political Rules
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; MUELLER-DEBUS, Anna Kristin; THAUER, Christian R.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:With increasing fragmentation of worldwide production chains and the corresponding contracting relations between companies, the “firm as an inspector" has become a frequent phenomenon. Buyer firms deploy supervising ...
Title:New Modes of Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Self-regulation by Industry in Europe
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In technically complex areas, political actors increasingly rely on private actors to shape public policy, due to the greater expertise of private actors. This article theorises and empirically investigates the conditions ...
Title:Introduction. The Shadow of Hierarchy and New Modes of Governance
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; LEHMKUHL, DirkDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This special issue about sectoral governance in the shadow of hierarchy focuses on two sets of questions. Firstly, do new modes of sectoral governance in themselves contribute to the efficacy of policymaking or do they ...
Title:Conclusion: Evaluating the Forces of Interstitial Institutional Change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Evaluating the forces of interstitial institutional change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Introduction: Contested Competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
Title:Codecision and Institutional Change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the sources and processes of institutional change in one important aspect of EU politics – the legislative procedure of codecision – and shows how interstitial change of institutions that emerges ...
Title:Contested competences in the European Union
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing ...
Title:Mutual Recognition: Comparing Policy Areas
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Based on the analysis of the different policy areas discussed in this volume, this article proposes a strategic choice argument to account for the differential outcomes in the establishing of mutual recognition and, if ...
Title:Legislate or Delegate? Bargaining over Implementation and Legislative Authority in the EU
Author(s):BERGSTRÖM, Carl-Fredrik; FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explains how actors’ ability to bargain successfully in order to advance their institutional preferences has changed over time as a function of the particular institutional context. Actors use their bargaining ...