This review article, with a clear political science and public administration bias, takes stock
of the existing literature on EU agencies and suggests a future research agenda. The article …

The recent debate on administrative bodies in international organizations has brought
forward multiple theoretical perspectives, analytical frameworks, and methodological …

This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and
governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the crowded …

This article examines the contribution of the activities of FRONTEX, the Agency in charge of
managing operational cooperation at the external borders of the European Union (EU), to …

Principal-agent theory has been the dominant theory at the heart of public sector
accountability research. The notion of the potentially drifting agent—such as independent …

Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems
that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are …

The European regulatory space has been expanding rapidly since the 1990s. The double
movement towards a single market on the one hand and a Single European Regulatory …

European agencies have been created at a rapid pace in recent years in a multitude of
highly pertinent and sensitive fields ranging from pharmaceuticals and aviation safety to …

This article aims to explain two contrasting cases of bureaucratic cooperation: the
cooperation practices of two similar European agencies–Europol and Frontex–with …

Covering the history, governing institutions, and policies of the European Union, Jonathan
Olsen and John McCormick present the EU as one of the world's economic and political …