Efficiency or credibility? Testing the two logics of delegation to the European Commission

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 677-694

  Franchino, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic autonomy; Credibility; Delegation; Efficiency; European Commission; Statutory constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036445593     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760210162302     Document Type: Article

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