Multi-Level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector

Karin Ingold, University of Berne, Switzerland Muiris MacCarthaigh, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Emmanuelle Mathieu, European University Institute, Italy Joery Matthys, Leiden University, the Netherlands Frédéric Varone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Kutsal Yesilkagit, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

'Telecommunications regulation is one of the longest established and most significant fields of multilevel regulation. This important new book locates European telecommunications regulation regimes comparatively and in the round, contextualizing the relationships of independent regulatory agencies with others in the policy space, offering fresh new insights on both autonomy and interdependence in contemporary regulatory governance.' - Colin Scott, Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, University College Dublin, Ireland 'Making use of innovative measurement tools, this interesting book illuminates the logic of telecommunications' multi-level regulatory governance within Europe. The in-depth study of four small countries provides a new perspective about the intricacies of policy-making and governance in Europe in a key policy area.' - Jacint Jordana, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain 'This book gives scholars, students and policy a solid assessment of the functioning of regulatory arrangements in the telecommunications sector in a comparative perspective. The book addresses the effects of autonomy, specialization and coordination on regulatory coherence. The chapters combine sound theoretical insight with useful empirical analysis. It is an important book for anyone interested in multi-level regulation.' - Per Laegreid, Professor of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway

• 1. Aim, Central Claims and Structure of the Book; Koen Verhoest and David Aubin 2. Assessing the Regulatory Arrangements: Concepts, Theory and Methods; David Aubin, Emmanuelle Mathieu, Joery Matthys and Koen Verhoest 3. Regulation of Telecommunications in Belgium: Organizational Complexity and Regulatory Effectiveness; Emmanuelle Mathieu and David Aubin 4. Informal Relationships and de Facto Independence of the Regulator in the Irish Telecommunications Regulatory Arrangement; Muiris MacCarthaigh 5. To Merge or not to Merge: The Institutional Re-Design of Telecommunications Regulation in the Netherlands; Kutsal Yesilkagit 6. Regulation of the Telecommunications in Switzerland: A Network Approach to Assess the Regulatory Agencies' Independence; Karin Ingold and Frédéric Varone 7. Autonomy and Decision-Making Power of Independent Regulatory Agencies in Multi-Level Arrangements; Koen Verhoest, David Aubin, Joery Matthys and Emmanuelle Mathieu 8. Evolutionary Multi-Level Regulatory Arrangements: The Impacts of the Resolution of Incoherencies; David Aubin and Koen Verhoest