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The EU 's C ommunity M echanism for C ivil P rotection: Analysing Its Development
Author(s) -
Morsut Claudia
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.12053
Subject(s) - delegation , principal (computer security) , business , computer science , computer security , economics , management
Since the 1980s, the E uropean U nion ( EU ) has sought to develop civil protection tools to improve the cooperation among member states in response to natural and man‐made disasters. The C ommunity M echanism for C ivil P rotection, established in 2001, has gradually become the most used instrument in this field and has undergone a series of changes and improvements. In this paper, I seek to analyse the Mechanism using principal–agent theory in order to understand the rationales behind delegation and the control mechanisms that characterise the interaction between the E uropean C ommission (the agent) and the E uropean C ouncil (the principal) in the development of this tool.