Multi-Level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector: Adaptive Regulatory Arrangements in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland

ISBN-13: 9781137004918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 299 str.

David Aubin;Koen Verhoest

Opis

Through a comparison of the telecommunications sectors in four small EU-countries, an outstanding cast of contributors explore how regulatory authorities at international, EU-, national and regional level within and between sectors coordinate their regulatory decisions in order to provide coherent regulation of markets.

Spis treści

1. Aim, Central Claims and Structure of the Book; Koen Verhoest and David Aubin 2. Assessing the Regulatory Arrangements: Concepts, Theory and Methods; David Aubin, Emmanuelle Mathieu, Joery Matthys and Koen Verhoest 3. Regulation of Telecommunications in Belgium: Organizational Complexity and Regulatory Effectiveness; Emmanuelle Mathieu and David Aubin 4. Informal Relationships and de Facto Independence of the Regulator in the Irish Telecommunications Regulatory Arrangement; Muiris MacCarthaigh 5. To Merge or not to Merge: The Institutional Re-Design of Telecommunications Regulation in the Netherlands; Kutsal Yesilkagit 6. Regulation of the Telecommunications in Switzerland: A Network Approach to Assess the Regulatory Agencies' Independence; Karin Ingold and Frédéric Varone 7. Autonomy and Decision-Making Power of Independent Regulatory Agencies in Multi-Level Arrangements; Koen Verhoest, David Aubin, Joery Matthys and Emmanuelle Mathieu 8. Evolutionary Multi-Level Regulatory Arrangements: The Impacts of the Resolution of Incoherencies; David Aubin and Koen Verhoest

O autorze

Karin Ingold, University of Berne, Switzerland Muiris MacCarthaigh, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Emmanuelle Mathieu, European University Institute, Italy Joery Matthys, Leiden University, the Netherlands Frédéric Varone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Kutsal Yesilkagit, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.