Series Title | Journal of European Public Policy |
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Series Details | Vol.24, No.8, August 2017, p1116-1134 |
Publication Date | August 2017 |
ISSN | 1350-1763 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
Abstract: The article examines what drives national regulators’ attitudes towards and engagement with EU regulatory co-ordination as facilitated by EU agencies and offices. It suggests that a bureaucratic politics perspective can counteract shortcomings of explanations conventionally advanced in the EU governance literature by showing that national regulators’ attitudes towards co-ordination are driven by the aim to protect their turf. This is empirically demonstrated by a comparison of attitudes to co-ordination across maritime safety and food control authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany that draws on original document analysis and semi-structured interviews with British, German and European Union (EU) officials. UK and German food control authorities have a positive attitude towards EU co-ordination, but the maritime safety authorities contest it. While the food control authorities use EU co-ordination to enhance their bureaucratic turf vis-à-vis lower-level authorities, the maritime safety authorities perceive EU co-ordination to threaten their established position in the International Maritime Organization. |
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Source Link | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1206141 |
Subject Categories | Business and Industry |
Countries / Regions | Europe |
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