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The creation of an efficient Common Market has been, & for many aspects still is, the main goal of European regulation. Until the Single European Act, European regulation was mainly implemented through judicial policies, but during the 1990s the development of regulatory reforms called the EU for moving to a new form of regulation: administrative regulation. Today, in fields of policy like monetary policy, competition policy, telecommunication policy, & energy policy, the EU is called to implement European rules in a permanent, focused, sustained, & homogeneous way. Transnational networks made of national independent regulatory agencies have been created in order to achieve an efficient & effective regulation. Agency theory gives theoretical support to the creation of transnational regulatory networks. Nevertheless, an empirical analysis of successes & failures proves that institutional design of the network (independence, communication, & coordination) is only one out of four factors that can determine efficiency & effectiveness of European administrative regulation. The other factors are: the level of political support of the policy, the quality of European rules, & the structure of the policy field (fragmentation rather than the presence of one dominant powerful actor). Thus, in order to evaluate the probability of success or failure of transnational regulatory networks agency theory must be integrated in substantial ways. 3 Tables, 38 References. Adapted from the source document.

Con l'introduzione del concetto di geoeconomia, Edward Luttwak indicava quella che a suo avviso sarebbe diventata la modalità egemonica di espressione della ineliminabile conflittualità interstatale nel mondo post guerra fredda. Questo articolo invece propone di utilizzare il concetto di geoeconomia in maniera differente, circoscrivendone l'applicazione all'insieme più specifico delle relazioni economiche e commerciali che vengono instaurate con finalità geopolitiche e potenzialmente coercitive. Ripercorrendo sinteticamente gli eventi storici chiave che hanno generato la crisi dell'ordine liberale, viene mostrato come un'analisi del diffuso ritorno a relazioni di tipo geoeconomico tra gli stati possa fornire un osservatorio privilegiato attraverso il quale cercare di comprendere meglio la competizione in atto per (ri)definire le infrastrutture essenziali, gli standard giuridici e le tecnologie che daranno forma e sostanza allo sviluppo economico e militare nei prossimi decenni.

Populism is the 'new big thing' in western politics. On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, populist leaders, movements and parties are obtaining a growing political consent. Staring from this empirical evidence, the article reconstructs the three main strands that constitute the scientific reflexion on populism showing the limits that every single strand have and proposing a new definition of populism based on a multidimensional and syncretic approach that can account for the complexity of the normative common roots that link populism to democratic theory.

Part of a debate in this journal on state intervention & delegation to independent regulatory agencies (IRAs), the author investigates the possibility of linking the creation of IRAs & the concept of Europeanization. Using the cases of Italy & France, he shows that the process of Europeanization should be considered a key explanatory factor in the establishment & dispersal of IRAs in Europe. Furthermore, he discusses key variables & causal mechanism linking the process of creation of a set of common policies at the EU level for the creation of national systems of IRAs. 31 References. E. Sanchez

Based on an analytical evaluation of both the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian political system, Italy in the European Union is the first book to offer a detailed and comprehensive description of Italy's contribution to European Union policy-making across a wide range of policies. Combining empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, it functions on two levels: as a nuanced picture of Italy's role in the EU and as a study of the EU as it has been transformed by subsequent waves of enlargement