The effect of steering by multiple principals on national agencies' compliance with European Union laws

Q3 Social Sciences

International Journal of Public Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1504/IJPP.2020.10036330

Michelle Zonneveld

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Abstract

National agencies that implement European Union legislation engage with multiple principals: the national government, the European Commission and EU agencies. In this article we have developed and tested a tool that enables examination of the effect of steering by multiple principals on an agency's compliance with EU laws. On the basis of multiple principal-agent theory we have developed an explanatory typology to predict an agency's level of compliance by configuring the principals' and agency's preferences and the steering mechanisms resulting from the convergence or divergence in preferences. The typology is tested in an embedded case study of the implementation of the Port State Control Directive in the Netherlands. The results show that the typology is able to explain two of the three cases. To enhance the explanatory power of the typology, we suggest including the strength of steering instruments used by principals as additional factor in the typology.

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多负责人指导对国家机构遵守欧盟法律的影响

执行欧盟立法的国家机构与多个主体打交道:国家政府、欧盟委员会和欧盟机构。在本文中，我们开发并测试了一个工具，该工具可以检查由多个主体指导对机构遵守欧盟法律的影响。在多元委托代理理论的基础上，我们发展了一种解释性类型学，通过配置委托人和代理的偏好以及偏好趋同或分歧所产生的导向机制来预测代理的合规水平。该类型学在荷兰港口国控制指令实施的嵌入式案例研究中进行了测试。结果表明，类型学能够解释这三种情况中的两种。为了增强类型学的解释力，我们建议将校长使用的转向工具的强度作为类型学中的附加因素。

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International Journal of Public Policy Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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