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TRANSNATIONAL BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS: AN INSTITUTIONAL RIVALRY PERSPECTIVE ON EU NETWORK GOVERNANCE
Author(s) -
BACH TOBIAS,
DE FRANCESCO FABRIZIO,
MAGGETTI MARTINO,
RUFFING EVA
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/padm.12252
Subject(s) - rivalry , bureaucracy , argument (complex analysis) , perspective (graphical) , corporate governance , politics , sketch , political science , political economy , global governance , positive economics , law and economics , economic system , sociology , public administration , economics , law , management , biochemistry , chemistry , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science , macroeconomics
This contribution introduces our symposium by highlighting four distinctive aspects of transnational governance from a bureaucratic politics perspective: the emergence of transnational institutions, their functioning, their impact on the domestic level, and the diffusion of regulatory standards. The general argument is that many accounts of transnational governance seem to be overly optimistic about the conditions for effective problem‐solving and fail to take into account that institutional rivalry may either support or constrain the implementation of supranational policies. The aim of this piece is to review existing research, to highlight the contribution of the symposium articles in furthering an institutional rivalry perspective on transnational governance, and to sketch pertinent areas for further research building upon this perspective.