The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of
politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public …

Independent regulatory agencies are one of the main institutional features of the'rising
regulatory state'in Western Europe. Governments are increasingly willing to abandon their …

... it is thanks to works like this one that we can make progress in the understanding of the
phenomenon of independent regulatory authorities in Europe and elsewhere. Competition …

Wage setting has been one of the most heavily studied institutions in the field of comparative
political economy over the past two decades, and quantitative measures of wage-setting …

Although principal-agent models have been extensively used by American political
scientists for now more than twenty years, their application to the European context is much …

* I am grateful to the editors of International Finance for the opportunity to express these
views, and particularly to Benn Steil and Adam Posen for their comments on a draft. The …

Abstract The Federal Reserve is 'independent', but contrary to opinions often expressed, it
was not intended by its creators to be free from political control, although others involved in …

Sažetak European Union's energy law stipulates numerous obligations with the intention of
achieving a desired level of independence of national regulatory authorities. This article …

Glücklicherweise gibt es auch für derartige Werke eine Stelle, an der man sich
vergleichsweise ungezwungen äußern darf. So möchte ich dieses Vorwort nutzen, um mich …

Does Europeanization matter, and, if so, to what extent and in what respects? While
research on the European Union is thriving, only limited efforts have been directed towards …