EU-agencies: Autonomy and accountability in a multi-level system

Abstract

The questions of autonomy and accountability are long standing research topics in the EU agency literature. However, EU agencies – in particular the ones with the most far reaching competences – are often not only embedded in multiple actor constellations at the EU level but are in addition “networked agencies” (Levi-Faur 2011), resting upon dense networks of national regulatory agencies. This multi-level character of administrative decision-making is often neglected. The panel invites papers focussing on agencies’ autonomy and accountability from different angles to draw a more complete picture of how different constellations affect agencies in practice.

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