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Reconceptualizing European Union regulatory networks: A response to Blauberger and Rittberger

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  • Andrew Tarrant
  • R. Daniel Kelemen

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This article responds to Michael Blauberger and Berthold Rittberger's article “Conceptualizing and theorizing EU regulatory networks,” published in Regulation & Governance in 2015. Blauberger and Rittberger challenged our previous work on the politics of Eurocracy, disputing our argument that political considerations, not functional ones, explain the choice of bureaucratic structure in the European Union (EU). Blauberger and Rittberger suggest that functional considerations do indeed explain why policymakers sometimes prefer governance through European Regulatory Networks rather than through more centralized EU agencies, and argue that we have misunderstood the preferences of EU legislative principals. In this article, we argue that there are significant flaws in Blauberger and Rittberger's analysis on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We show that a proper interpretation of developments in both telecoms and competition lends support to our theoretical claims and not those offered by Blauberger and Rittberger.

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  • Andrew Tarrant & R. Daniel Kelemen, 2017. "Reconceptualizing European Union regulatory networks: A response to Blauberger and Rittberger," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(2), pages 213-222, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:reggov:v:11:y:2017:i:2:p:213-222
    DOI: 10.1111/rego.12135
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