Independent regulatory bodies and impossible jobs: The failure of German public service broadcasting regulation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Meier, Henk Erik
• 署名单位: Free University of Berlin
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00697.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 133-148
• 关键词: GOVERNANCE; DELEGATION; agencies; POLITICS; POLICY

摘要

This case study takes the rise and fall of licence fee indexation within German public service regulation as an example and traces mechanisms of re-politicization of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). According to the evidence, agency contestation is likely when: (1) administrative cultures result in incoherencies in institutional design; (2) IRAs deal with redistribution; (3) conflicts about principles of regulation persist; (4) IRAs pursue one particular regulatory ideology; (5) controversial regulatory output is highly visible; and (6) affected interests are not given a say. The article points to the relevance of new regulatory technologies that are likely to embody regulatory bias. Moreover, it seems that successful contestation of IRAs requires the conjunction of escalating factors. Nevertheless, such contestation might not result in a return to old modes of command and control.