Regulatory Governance in the European Union

This section invites panel and paper proposals on current trends and transformations in the scope, forms, functions, and consequences of EU regulatory governance - economic, social and cultural. Contributions are welcomed on major themes such as: Is EU regulatory governance becoming more uniform, centralized, and supranationalised, e.g. through the creation of stronger European agencies, single rule books, and supervisory convergence procedures? Or do recent developments in fields from market regulation and competition to social and environmental protection still leave space for the accommodation of national diversity and revision in light of implementation experience, in line with theories of networked regulation and experimentalist governance? Are persistent divergences in national preferences and conditions leading to the emergence of new forms of differentiated integration, whereby member states can opt in or out of EU rules and policies? And if so, what are the implications for the integrity and coherence of the Single Market, and for the problem-solving capacity of the EU more generally? How far has the EU been able to balance or combine economic and non-economic aims in regulating different markets and, increasingly, other fields? What conflicts arise between preserving the Single Market and relations with non-EU states or prospective leavers from the EU such as the UK? The section also welcomes papers that examine the effects of EU regulatory governance, and that compare its external and internal dimensions, including placing it in the wider global context. It invites linkage between empirical papers and broader theoretical approaches to EU integration and multilevel governance, regulatory governance and policy making, such as intergovernmentalism and (neo/post) functionalism, governance theories, institutionalisms and constructivism, federalism, and theories of the policy process.