Senior Assistant Professor of European Politics @PolSciLeiden, political accountability, EU decision-making, EU agencies #EMU, #JHA
Oct 25, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
1/11 In a new article with Mark Dawson published in @RegGov_journal, we argue that the #EU's current approach to accountability reflects a regulatory bias towards the process of decision-making and interest mediation. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
2/11 But the #EU is more than a regulatory state. We introduce the concept of the ‘para-regulatory state’ to describe increasing EU regulation in areas of core state powers that are both redistributive and politicized, e.g. fiscal policy, border control, police, public admin etc.