freedom to maneuver and risks control failure. This competence-control tradeoff applies in all governance domains: democratic … principals. The "governor's dilemma" results from the tradeoff between agent competence and principal control. Competent agents … impedes agent competence by constraining the development and exercise of agent capabilities. If a principal emphasizes control …

Democracy, domination, and the challenge of economic governance -- Managerialism and the new deal legacy -- The …

This paper investigates how the intergovernmental reform process of European economic governance affected national … asymmetries national parliaments remained de jure but not de facto equal in the exercise of their control powers at the EU level … effect on the legitimacy of European economic governance. …