Variation in European Crisis Management Regimes

Much attention has been paid to the crisis management capacity of EU institutions during times of crises. Transboundary crisis management, however, requires capacity of linking EU, national and sub-national political and administrative systems. This paper explores this capacity question by focusing on four different policy domains, financial regulation, environmental regulation, social regulation, and infrastructure regulation. Each one of these sectors has been associated with different types of crisis. At the same time, EU provisions require collaboration. This paper explores variation in cross-sectoral perspective and assesses whether dominant explanations, namely those based on types of crisis, sectoral differences, or level of EU legal competence, can account for these sectoral differences.