Premium
Is the medicine right?
Author(s) -
Meloni Gabriella
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/eulj.12368
Subject(s) - subsidiarity , ideology , key (lock) , action (physics) , law and economics , quality (philosophy) , reading (process) , intervention (counseling) , state (computer science) , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , public economics , management science , business , computer science , law , economics , epistemology , psychology , computer security , politics , economic policy , philosophy , physics , algorithm , european union , quantum mechanics , psychiatry
Is asking the Better Regulation Agenda (BRA) to answer the same preconditions it requires for any regulatory action a proper treatment? Does any assessment of the agenda necessarily imply a thorough definition of the costs and the benefits deriving from its application or is it enough to provide a few key insights to perform it? Is the BRA really so ideological, deriving from “a liberal analytical framework that considers no regulation/state intervention” as the preferred option? Is regulatory quality an issue that “cannot realistically be solved”? Does the principle of subsidiarity as a policy objective need some revision? Several questions come to mind when reading a very thought‐provoking article that is very critical of the BRA but that in the end recognises some of its main qualities.