Regulatory Agencies: Institutional and Actors Centred Approaches

Abstract

The number of regulatory agencies created or reformed during the last decades has been really impressive, both in the developed and the developing worlds, and this number is still increasing across many different sectors. The popularity that this institutional form for public governance has reached goes far beyond its Anglo-Saxon origins, and its diffusion by now consolidates it as one of the more extended institutional innovations in the public sector in the late 20th century. There is now an large number of regulatory agencies in the world, and therefore we may analyze the variations existing in their characteristics among sectors and nations, to discuss different hypothesis about their regulatory capabilities and overall performance. This panel aims to revise different approaches to analysis the nature of regulatory agencies. Papers are expected to discuss interpretative perspectives and empirical findings about the institutional design of the regulatory agencies, their connections to other institutions and actors, and also about the professional behaviour and technical character of regulatory agencies.

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