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
- Koen Verhoest
Anne Meuwese is 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 (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
- Anne Meuwese: Tilburg University (co-chair)
- Koen Verhoest: University of Antwerp (co-chair)
- Jacint Jordana: Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (treasurer and ex-officio member
- David Levi-Faur: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ex-officio member)
- Claudio Radaelli: University of Exeter (ex-officio member)
- Colin Scott: University College Dublin (ex-officio member)
- Frans van Waarden: University College Utrecht (ex-officio member)
- Xavier Fernández i Marín: ESADE Business School
- Andreas Goldthau: Harvard University & Central European University
- Graeme Hodge: Monash University
- Martino Maggetti: University of Lausanne
- Isik Ozel: Sabanci University
- Tatjana Jovanic: University of Belgrade
- Hussein Kassim: University of East Anglia
- Ulrika Mörth: Stockholm University
Previous Chairs
- Claudio Radaelli (2010-2012)
- Jacint Jordana (2005-2010)
- David Levi-Faur (2005-2010)
Previous Steering Committee members
- Lorenzo Allio (web): Independent consultant on regulatory reform
- Michelle Egan: Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam, School of International Service, American University
- Jarle Trondal: Professor, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Adger
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 | 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 |
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