Thatcher, Mark (2001) The EU commission and national governments as partners: EC regulatory expansion in telecommunications 1979-2000. CARR Discussion Papers (DP 2). ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London, UK.
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Abstract
Explicitly or implicitly, general models of European integration claim that EC regulatory expansion involves a struggle for power between Commission and national governments. The Commission is seen as a policy entrepreneur, taking the initiative to drive forward integration (Sandholtz and Zysman 1989). It seeks regulatory expansion due to constraints on its expenditure (Majone 1996, ch4). Neo-functionalists emphasise the Commission's ability to expand its role against the wishes of governments, thanks to the support of transnational groups and the European Court of Justice (Sandholtz and Stone Sweet 1998; Stone-Sweet and Burrell 1998). Intergovernmentalists differ in their conclusions about the distribution of power (arguing that the Commission is generally unable to impose its preferences on member states), rather than the assumption that Commission and national governments are in conflictual competition with each other for power (Moravcsik 1998, 1999)...
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/CARR |
| Additional Information: | © 2000 The Author |
| Divisions: | Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2011 10:53 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35979 |
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