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Assessing the Added Value of an EU Agency for Aviation Safety1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2011
Abstract
Irrespective of the level of government, public officials increasingly face the challenge of evaluating and making choices between more instruments. Agencies are intended to be a new and different type of governance instrument offering prospects for stronger input from experts, greater transparency and depoliticised decisions. Using ‘legitimacy’ as the framework, this study compares an agency (European Aviation Safety Agency) to comitology and its predecessor (a sui generis intergovernmental regulatory network). Although EASA is often heralded as a major change, the conclusions here are that its predecessor was quite effective and that comitology has been greatly improved and could have been explored as alternative instrument. Therefore, the agency solution was neither unavoidable nor necessarily better.
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This is an elaborated version of Schout (forthcoming). I would like to thank Martijn Groenleer and the referees for their constructive comments.
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