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- W2796682009 abstract "In contcmporary politics, a new type of actors, somelime called Non-Majoritarian Institutions (NMIs), are of raising importance - most often for efficiency rationales. One particular important species of that type are Independent Rcgulatory Agencies (IRAs), established mainly to regulate risks or (formerly monopolized) markels in an expertise- and long term-oriented manner. For this purpose, IRAs are often designed to act at arm's length of government. In turn, il has been argued IRAs represent a challenge to democracy. Of particular concem is that IRAs, due to their independence, are not anymore subject to mechanisms of democratie accountability. The present thesis addresses the accountability of Independent Rcgulatory Agencies (IRAs) in a more inclusive way than existing approaches. That differentiates between formal accountability mechanisms on paper, and their de facto use. Empirically, the approach is used to analyze the accounlability regimes of four case studies: The Swiss regulators for telecommunications and financial services, ComCom and FINMA, and their German counterparts, BNetzA and BaFin. The results yield, first, that each agency under scrutiny is formally subject to a powerful accountability regime. Moreover, there is 110 detectable trade-off between independence and formal accountability. The second part of the study reveals the power of additional factors such as trust, reputation-seeking, and transnational integration to completely juxtapose the character of die formal arrangement. The regime approach has hence proven useful to get a more fine-grained picture of accountability. Il shows that accountability is not restricted mainly by resource scarcity or lack of credibility, which mosl fora are able to compensate for, but by informal dynamics among fora and between fora and agency.ResumeLa politique contemporaine est marquee par l'apparition d'un nouveau type d'acteurs, parfois appeles institutions non majoritaires (INM) qui ont vus leur importance sensiblement s'accroitre - le plus souvent pour des raisons d'efficacite. Parmi ces nouveaux acteurs, les organismes de reglementation autonome (IRA), oui pris une importance particuliere dans le domaine de la reglementation des risques ou des marches (anciennement monopolises) dont l'expertise est orientee avant tout sur le long-terme. A cet effet, les IRA sont souvent concus pour agir independamment du gouvernement. De ce fait, les IRA representent pour certain un veritable defi democratique. Il est notamment particulierement preoccupant que les IRA, en raison de leur independance, ne soient pas soumises a des mecanismes de responsabilite democratique. La presente these traite de la responsabilite des organismes de reglementation autonome (IRA) d'une maniere plus inclusive que les approches existantes. Cette «approche de regime» etabli une distinction entre les mecanismes officiels de responsabilisation «sur papier» et leur utilisation de facto. Empiriquement, l'approche est utilisee pour analyser les regimes de responsabilite de quatre organismes : Les regulateurs suisses pour les telecommunications et les services financiers, la ComCom et la FINMA, ainsi que leurs homologues allemands, BNelzA et BaFin. Les resultats de cette analyse demontrent, en premier lieu, que chaque organisme est formellement soumis a un regime de responsabilisation puissant. En outre, aucun compromis n'est apparu entre independance el responsabilite formelle. La deuxieme partie de l'etude revele egalement la puissance de facteurs supplementaires tels que la confiance, la recherche de reputation et l'integration transnationale afin de completer les accords officiels. L'approche de regime s'est donc revelee utile pour obtenir une image plus line de la responsabilite. Elle montre en particulier que la responsabilite 11e se limite pas principalement a la rarete des ressources ou le manque de credibilite, que la plupart des forums sont en mesure de compenser, mais se compose d'une dynamique informelle entre les instances ainsi qu'entre les instances el les organismes." @default.
- W2796682009 created "2018-04-24" @default.
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- W2796682009 date "2016-01-01" @default.
- W2796682009 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
- W2796682009 title "The Accountability Regimes of Independent Agencies: A Comparative Study" @default.
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