About the Standing Group. Who we are

The study of regulation and regulatory governance is attracting an increasing attention in the field of political science. The standing group was founded in March 2005 by David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University,and Jacint Jordana, Pompeu Fabra University. The group's founding members and those who joined it subsequently believe that the study of regulation & governance is increasingly important topic in the social sciences.

The aim of our group is to provide a platform and infrastructure for encouraging studies in this area and the creation of an institutional arena for mutual interaction and debate. We aim to bring together a broad range of scholars working on (various aspects) of 'regulatory governance' in all parts of the world, including scholars from fields such as law, economics, sociology, criminology, (social) psychology and history for a fruitful exchange of ideas and knowledge on regulatory governance. However, as a Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the main focus of the group will be on the political aspects of regulation. We believe in openness and pluralism and intend to open the group not only for different disciplines but to different theoretical perspective and to variety of methodological approaches.

Co-Chairs

• Anne Meuwese

Anne Meuwese is an associate professor at the department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History of Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands. She graduated in Law from Leiden University (LLM) as well as from the University of Oxford (M.Jur.). She obtained her doctorate in Law from Leiden in February 2008 cum laude with a thesis on `Impact Assessment in EU Lawmaking'. A commercial edition of this thesis has appeared with Kluwer Law International. In 2005 Anne was a trainee at the unit `Better Regulation and Institutional Matters' of the European Commission's Secretariat-General in Brussels. After two years as a researcher at the Department of Politics of the University of Exeter and another two as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp, Anne moved to Tilburg in March 2010. Anne teaches and carries out research on topics at the intersection of (European) public law and regulation. She is coordinator of the departmental research programme on `constitutional dialogues'. She is active in scholarly networks, such as the working group on Rulemaking of the Research Network on EU Administrative Law (ReNEUAL). At the moment, Anne is engaged in a three-year research project on the use of alternative regulatory mechanisms to steer public actors, funded by a personal Veni grant from the Dutch research council NWO. From March to July 2013 she will be a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Koen Verhoest

Koen Verhoest (PhD; Assoc. Prof. dr.) holds currently a. research professorship in Comparative Public Administration and Globalization at the Department of Political Science (Research Unit on Public Administration and Management), University of Antwerp, and is partially affiliated to the Public Management Institute (Catholic University of Leuven). Before he was Associate Professor and Research Manager at this latter Institute. He has a master in political Sciences, a European Master in Public Administration as well as specialized studies in economics. His PhD was in public administration at the Catholic University of Leuven (Public Management Institute). His main research interest is on the organizational aspects of regulatory governance, including the autonomy, control and coordination of regulatory and other agencies, the governance of liberalized markets, and the governance of public private partnerships and other forms of collaboration. He is strongly involved in the coordination of the COST-COBRA/CRIPO network on public sector organization, co-chairs the EGPA Study Group on Governance of Public Sector Organizations, and active in other international networks like the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance and the COST-Action TU1001 on Public Private Partnerships in Transport. He has published in international journals on organization and regulation of public services (among others in Organization Studies, Governance, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Management Review, Policy Studies, and Public Administration and Development). Books include 'Autonomy and control of state agencies'; 'The coordination of public sector organizations', and 'Government agencies: Practices and lessons from 30 countries' (all with co-authors published by Palgrave). He has managed about 30 policy-oriented or fundamental research projects and advised several Belgian (federal, regional and local) and foreign administrations (like The Netherlands, Ireland) on organizational aspects of public sector reforms, regulation and governance.

Steering Committee

• Lorenzo Allio (web): Independent consultant on regulatory reform
• Michelle Egan: Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam, School of International Service, American University
• Xavier Fernández i Marín: Research Fellow at ESADEgeo (Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics)
• Andreas Goldthau: Associate Professor and Head of Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest
• Graeme Hodge: Director of the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies, Law Faculty, Monash University.
• Jacint Jordana: Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
• David Levi-Faur: Professor at the Department of Political Science and The Federmann School of Public Policy & Government, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Martino Maggetti: Lecturer at the Department of Political Science (University of Zurich and University of Lausanne)
• Anne Meuwese: Associate Professor of European Comparative Public Law, Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History, Tilburg University
• Isik Ozel: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sabanci University, Istanbul
• Claudio Radaelli: Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy, Director, Centre for European Governance, University of Exeter
• Colin Scott: Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, University College Dublin
• Jarle Trondal: Professor, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Adger
• Frans van Waarden: Professor, University College Utrecht
• Koen Verhoest: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp

Previous Chairs

• Claudio Radaelli (2010-2012)
• Jacint Jordana (2005-2010)
• David Levi-Faur (2005-2010)

Rules for the Governance of the Standing Group

Consult the basic rules for the governance of the Standing Group.

Founding Members

The following list of scholars supported the establishment of an ECPR standing group:

Name	Email	University
Ian Bartle	i.bartle at sheffield.ac.uk	University of Bath
Jorgen Gronnegaard Christensen	jgc at ps.au.dk	University of Aarhus
Fabrizio Gilardi	fabrizio.gilardi at unil.ch	University of Lausanne
Martin Lodge	m.lodge at lse.ac.uk	London School of Economics
Susanne Lütz	susanne.luetz at fernuni-hagen.de	Open University of Hagen
Michael Moran	michael.moran at man.ac.uk	University of Manchester
Jürgen Neyer	j.neyer at soz.uni-frankfurt.de	University of FrankFurt
Vibeke Nilsen	vln at ps.au.dk	University of Aarhus
Claudio Radaelli	c.radaelli at ex.ac.uk	University of Exeter
Uwe Imre Serdült	serduelt at pwi.unizh.ch	University of Zurich
Arco Timmermans	a.timmermans at utwente.nl	University of Twente
David Levi-Faur	levifaur at mscc.huji.ac.il	Hebrew University
Jacint Jordana Casajuana	jacint.jordana at upf.edu	Universitat Pompeu Fabra