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Multi-Level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector

Adaptive Regulatory Arrangements in Belgium, Ireland, The Netherlands and Switzerland

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. David Aubin

    1. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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  2. Koen Verhoest

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Aim, Central Claims and Structure of the Book

    • Koen Verhoest, David Aubin
    Pages 1-11

  3. Assessing the Regulatory Arrangements: Concepts, Theories and Methods

    • David Aubin, Emmanuelle Mathieu, Joery Matthys, Koen Verhoest
    Pages 12-44

  4. Regulation of Telecommunications in Belgium: Organizational Complexity and Regulatory Effectiveness

    • Emmanuelle Mathieu, David Aubin
    Pages 45-77

  5. Informal Relationships and De Facto Independence of the Regulator in the Irish Telecommunications Regulatory Arrangement

    • Muiris MacCarthaigh
    Pages 78-107

  6. To Merge or Not to Merge: The Institutional Re-Design of Telecommunications Regulation in the Netherlands

    • Kutsal Yesilkagit
    Pages 108-136

  7. Regulation of the Telecommunications in Switzerland: A Network Approach to Assess the Regulatory Agencies’ Independence

    • Karin Ingold, Frédéric Varone
    Pages 137-161

  8. Autonomy and Decision-Making Power of Independent Regulatory Agencies in Multi-Level Arrangements

    • Koen Verhoest, David Aubin, Joery Matthys, Emmanuelle Mathieu
    Pages 162-202

  9. Evolutionary Multi-Level Regulatory Arrangements: The Impacts of the Resolution of Incoherencies

    • David Aubin, Koen Verhoest
    Pages 203-234

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-299
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Through a comparison of the telecommunications sectors in four small EU-countries, an outstanding cast of contributors explore how regulatory authorities at international, EU-, national and regional level within and between sectors coordinate their regulatory decisions in order to provide coherent regulation of markets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

    David Aubin

  • Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium

    Koen Verhoest

About the editors

Karin Ingold, University of Berne, Switzerland Muiris MacCarthaigh, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Emmanuelle Mathieu, European University Institute, Italy Joery Matthys, Leiden University, the Netherlands Frédéric Varone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Kutsal Yesilkagit, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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