Accountability and Regulatory Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. When Accountability Meets Regulation

   • Jacint Jordana, Andrea Bianculli, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín

   Pages 1-22

3. Varieties of Accountability Mechanisms in Regulatory Agencies

   • Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Jacint Jordana, Andrea Bianculli

   Pages 23-50

4. Explaining Self-Perceived Accountability of Regulatory Agencies in Comparative Perspective: How Do Formal Independence and De Facto Managerial Autonomy Interact?

   • Koen Verhoest, Astrid Molenveld, Tom Willems

   Pages 51-77

5. Assessing the Mandatory Accountability of Regulatory Agencies

   • Christel Koop

   Pages 78-104

6. Modelling the Relationship Between Independence and Accountability of Regulatory Agencies

   • Mattia Guidi

   Pages 105-122

7. Designing Accountability Regimes at the European Union Level

   • Nuria Font

   Pages 123-142

8. Social Accountability in the Regulatory Policy Process: The Governance of Telecommunications in Italy and Spain

   • Maria Righettini, Selena Grimaldi

   Pages 143-165

9. Accountability of the IRAs in Turkey. A Cross-Sectoral Comparison

   • Işιk Özel

   Pages 166-188

10. Regulatory Capitalism, Accountability and Democracy

    • Colin Scott

    Pages 189-208

11. Financial Markets and Regulatory Accountability: Between Technocratic Autonomy and Democratic Direction

    • Nicholas Dorn

    Pages 209-234

12. Accountability and Consumer Sovereignty

    • Martin Lodge

    Pages 235-264

13. Some Comparative Conclusions on Regulatory Governance and Accountability

    • Andrea Bianculli, Jacint Jordana, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín

    Pages 265-277

14. Back Matter

    Pages 278-291

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This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governance

• capitalism
• democracy
• European Union (EU)
• governance
• Policy
• politics
• sovereignty

'The rise of regulatory governance has given new salience to the old question 'who guards the guardians?' This volume, with contributions by the best scholars in the field, is a true landmark. It provides the first comprehensive and comparative overview of the state of regulatory accountability in Western democracies.' Mark Bovens, Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands

'Clear conceptual thinking about the accountability of regulators is in short supply. This book offers a major remedy. Qualitative and quantitative depiction of variation among states and types of agencies in accountability up, down and horizontally is in even shorter supply. This book again has a remedy on offer. It is a collection of unusual coherence in its focus on fundamental yet neglected questions. A feast of fine authors to devour these challenges'. John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Australia

'How can regulatory bodies conciliate the imperatives of autonomy and accountability? To whom are they accountable, for what, by what means and with what kind of standards? Does accountability in the real world equal their accountability on paper? Combining approaches and methods, this path-breaking collection moves beyond normative considerations and offers a clinical view of the accountability relations of a large number of regulators in several policy sectors, in many countries and in the European Union. Equipped with rigorous conceptual lenses and substantiated with a wealth of data, the contributions elegantly show the astonishing diversity and increasing complexity of accountability regimes. By exploring the impact of the 'regulatory state' on accountabilities this book compellingly identifies some major challenges to the quality of democratic life generated by transformations of governance practice'. Yannis Papadopoulos, University of Lausanne, France

• Institut Barcelona d’Etudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain

  Andrea C. Bianculli

• ESADE Business School, Spain

  Xavier Fernández-i-Marín

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain

  Jacint Jordana

Andrea C. Bianculli, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain Nicholas Dorn, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, ESADE Business School, Spain Nuria Font, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Selena Grimaldi, University of Padova, Italy Mattia Guidi, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome Jacint Jordana, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain Christel Koop, King's College London, UK Martin Lodge, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Astrid Molenveld, KU Leuven, Belgium and University of Antwerp, Belgium I??k Özel, Sabanc? University, Istanbul Maria Stella Righettini, University of Padua, Italy Colin Scott, University College Dublin, Ireland Koen Verhoest, University of Antwerp, Belgium Tom Willems, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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