An academic sabbatical for over a year resulted in this book. I recommend such a sabbatical
to everyone. It was a luxury to have time and space to think. After 30 years of office life, a …

This book examines a largely unexplored dimension of the European agencies, namely their
role in EU external relations and on the international plane. International cooperation has …

Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they
inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in …

After the ruling of the Court of Justice in the European Securities and Markets Authorities
(ESMA)-short selling case, two paradigms of legitimation for European Union (EU) agencies …

European Union agencies (EAs) are core components of the EU regulatory regime (Olsen,
2003; Hofmann and Türk, 2006; Trondal, 2007; Egeberg and Curtin, 2008). The creation of …

The massive build-up of knowledge-based institutions and their putative power, particularly
in the transnational realm, is often seen as a threat to democratic self-rule. Is this criticism …

Depoliticised decision-making is intrinsic to the rise of the administrative state. The seclusion
of regulatory power became a distinctive ingredient of modern government that emerged …

This PhD research investigates de facto influence of EU agencies on the development of EU
policies. Based on a case-study approach and expert interviews, the European Centre for …

With the establishment of the EU Taxonomy the European Union Commission aims to direct
capital to more sustainable investments and prevent greenwashing. The Commission tasked …

This chapter examines to what extent the system of regulation and enforcement of the
European Union (EU) civil aviation safety rules is under control. The EU civil aviation safety …