Efficiency or credibility? Testing the two logics of delegation to the European Commision
By: FRANCHINO, Fabio
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ArticlePublisher: October 2002Subject(s): Autonomia Burocrática | Credibilidade | Delegação | Eficiência | Comissão Europeia | Restrição LegalJournal of European Public Policy 9 , 5, p. 677-694Abstract: This article critically elaborates Majone's argument that there are two logics underlying the delgeation of powers to the European Commission: the logic of efficiency and the logic of credibility. It analyses 601 provisions of secondary legislation and suggests a method to distinguish the two rationales. It then correlates executive powers with statutory constraints. a surprising result is that these constraints are more associated, in general, with credibility-based than with efficiency-based delegation: howeve, statutory constraints that facilitate control by national state actors are more likely to be associated with efficiency-based delegation. The article concludes by emphasizing that different strategies of control are related to different underlying motivations to delegate
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This article critically elaborates Majone's argument that there are two logics underlying the delgeation of powers to the European Commission: the logic of efficiency and the logic of credibility. It analyses 601 provisions of secondary legislation and suggests a method to distinguish the two rationales. It then correlates executive powers with statutory constraints. a surprising result is that these constraints are more associated, in general, with credibility-based than with efficiency-based delegation: howeve, statutory constraints that facilitate control by national state actors are more likely to be associated with efficiency-based delegation. The article concludes by emphasizing that different strategies of control are related to different underlying motivations to delegate
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