The regulatory state and its legitimacy problems

West European Politics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-24

  Majone, Giandomenico ^a,b  

^a Institut Europeacute en d'Administration Publique   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POWER RELATIONS; STATE ROLE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032968089     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402389908425284     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. For a more detailed treatment see Giandomenico Majone, 'From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance', Journal of Public Policy 17/2 (1997) pp.139-67.
2. Giandomenico Majone, 'The Rise of the Regulatory State on Europe', West European Politics 17/3 (Sept. 1994) pp.77-101 and, id. Regulating Europe (London: Routledge 1996).
3. Majone (note 1).
4. Mathew D. McCubbins and Thomas Page, 'A Theory of Congressional Delegation', in M.D. McCubbins and T. Sullivan (eds.) Congress: Structure and Policy (Cambridge: CUP 1987) pp.409-25.
5. Morris P. Fiorina, 'Legislative Choice of Regulatory Forms: Legal Process or Administrative Process?1, Public Choice 39/1 (1982) pp.33-66, at p.47.
6. Juan Linz, 'Democracy's Time Constraints', International Political Science Review 19/1 (1998)pp.l9-38.
7. Charles L. Schultze, The Public Use of Public Interest (Washington DC: Brookings 1977).
8. Wemer Troesken, Why Regulate Utilities? (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press 1996).
9. Cento Veljanovski, 'The Regulation Game' in id. (ed.) Regulators and the Market (London: Inst. of Economic Affairs 1991) pp.3-28.
10. Kristos Gatsios and Paul Seabright, 'Regulation in the European Community', Oxford Review of Economic Policy 5/2 (1989) pp.37-60 at p.46.
11. Murray Horn, The Political Economy of Public Administration (Cambridge: CUP 1995).
12. In fact, organizations have been defined as 'networks of overlapping or nested principalagent relationships', see Jean Tirole, 'Hierarchies and Bureaucracies: On the Role of Coercion in Organizations', Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 2/3 (1986) pp.181-214.atp.181.
13. James Freedman, Crisis and Legitimacy (Cambridge: CUP 1978).
14. Robert Baldwin and Christopher McCrudden, Regulation and Public Law (London: Weidenfeld 1987).
15. Freedman (note 13).
16. Marver Bernstein, Regulating Business by Independent Commissions (Princeton UP 1955).
17. Martin Shapiro, Who Guards the Guardians? (Athens: U. of Georgia Press 1988).
18. Freedman, Crisis and Legitimacy (note 13) pp.72-3.
19. Fabrice Demarigny, 'Independent Administrative Authorities in France and the Case of the French Council for Competition', in Majone, Regulating Europe (note 2) pp. 157-79.
20. Lluis Cases, 'Competition Law and Policy in Spain: Implementation in an Interventionist Tradition', in Majone, Regulating Europe (note 2) pp.180-201.
21. Tony Prosser, 'Regulation of Privatized Enterprises: Institutions and Procedures', in L. Hancher and J. Moran (eds.) Capitalism, Culture and Economic Regulation (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989) pp.125-65, at p.147.
22. Robert Baldwin, 'Regulatory Legitimacy in the European Context: The British Health and Safety Executive', in Majone, Regulating Europe (note 2) pp.83-105; Albert Weale, 'Environmental Regulation and Administrative Reform in Britain', in Majone, Regulating Europe (note 2) pp. 106-30.
23. Veljanovski (note 9) p. 17.
24. Horn (note 11).
25. Martin Shapiro, The Giving-Reasons Requirement (U. of Chicago Legal Forum 1992) pp. 180-220, at p. 183.
26. Pio Baake and Oliver Perschau, "The Law and Policy of Competition in Germany', in Majone, Regulating Europe (note 2) pp.131-56.
27. This section relies heavily on my paper 'Europe's "Democratic Deficit": The Question of Standards', European Law Journal 4/1 (1998) pp.5-28.
28. Joseph H.H. Weiler, "The Transformation of Europe', Yak Law Journal 100/3 (1991) pp.2403-37.
29. Alan Dashwood, 'The Limits of European Community Powers', European Law Review 21/1 (1996) pp. 113-28.
30. Ibid.
31. Majone (note 2).
32. Arcnd Lijphart, Democracies (New Haven, CT: Yale UP 1984) p.22.
33. Robert Thomas, 'Reason-giving in English and European Community Administrative Law1, European Public Law 3/2 (1997) pp.213-22.
34. Renaud Dehousse, Christian Joerges, Giandomenico Majone and Francis Snyder, Europe After 1992: New Regulatory Strategies (Florence: European U. Inst., EUI Working Paper Law 92/31, 1992) p.30.