The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies
By Jacint Jordana, D. Levi‐Faur, Xavier Fernández i Marín. 2011
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The autonomous regulatory agency has recently become the “appropriate model” of governance across countries and sectors. The dynamics of this process are captured in the authors’ data set, which covers the establishment of agencies in 48 countries and 15 sectors for the period 1966-2007. Adopting a diffusion approach to explain this broad process of institutional change, the authors explore the role of countries and sectors as sources of institutional transfer at different stages of the diffusion process. They demonstrate how the restructuring of national bureaucracies unfolds via four different channels of institutional transfer. The results challenge theoretical approaches that overemphasize the national dimension in global diffusion and are insensitive to the stages of the diffusion process. Further advance in study of diffusion depends, the authors assert, on the ability to apply both cross-sectoral and cross-national analysis to the same research design and to incorporate channels of transfer with different causal mechanisms for different stages of the diffusion process.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Politicization compared: at national, European, and global levels (2019, background): “In general, according to a quantitative study, ‘autonomous regulatory agencies’ play a role in 73% of all policy areas in the countries under investigation (Jordana et al. 2011).”
- Regulatory networks and regulatory agencification: towards a Single European Regulatory Space (2011, background): “Case selection is based first on a data set from Jordana et al. (2011) which identifies 15 regulatory regimes for data collection: competition, electricity, environment, financial services, food safety, gas, health services, insurance, pensions, pharmaceuticals, post, security and exchange,…”
- THE WELFARE STATE: A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE (2014, background): “…transition from a positive state to a regulatory state had captured the imagination of Europeans since the 1990s first at the level of the European Union but thereafter with “normalization” of regulatory agencies as institutions of governance also at the domestic level (Jordana et al., 2011).”