If there is – as it has now been largely acknowledged – a general trend towards setting up EU-level regulatory agents in order to palliate the lack of EU regulatory capacity, how can we explain that the type of regulatory agent created varies between sectors and changes over time? Focusing...

In the last two decades, there has been a progressive extension of delegation to European regulatory agencies, which has led to important claims about the agencification of EU executive governance. Yet, there is still little knowledge about how and under what conditions, in practice, agencies...

Is experimentalist governance (XG) self-limiting or self-reinforcing by virtue of its relationship to strategic uncertainty as an essential scope condition? This paper tackles this important but understudied question by elaborating a series of ideal-typical pathways for the temporal evolution of...