The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. In particular, the contributions to this volume analyze delegation, control, and agent strategies in a variety of principal-agent relationships shaping the EU's foreign economic policies: mainly...
The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiati...
The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. In particular, the contributions to this volume analyze delegation, control, and agent strategies in a variety of principal-agent relationships shaping the EU's foreign economic policies: mainly...
The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiati...
Countries across the globe are scrambling to sign preferential trade agreements. In this volume, leading political scientists, economists and international lawyers take stock of past and current research on these agreements in order to provide insights into their functions and effects and outline the future research agenda.
Countries across the globe are scrambling to sign preferential trade agreements. In this volume, leading political scientists, economists and internat...
What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups? And what consequences do these differences have for the access that interest groups can gain to decision-makers and the influence that they can exert on policy outcomes? Building on an unprecedented amount of empirical evidence on lobbying in Europe, this book puts forward a distinction between lobbying insiders and lobbying outsiders. Lobbying insiders, most prominently business interests, try to establish direct contacts with decision-makers, enjoy good access to executive institutions, and manage to shape policy...
What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups? And what consequences do these differences have for the access that interest g...
