The evolution of stakeholder involvement in EU regulatory governance: The case of securities regulation in the European Union

European Law and Governance seminar, co-organised by the Jean Monnet Chair in European and Transnational Governance

Lecture

Kutsal Yesilkagit (Utrecht University) will discuss a forthcoming paper, co-authored with Dr. Caelesta Braun of the VU University, on stakeholder involvement in regulatory governance in the EU.

European regulatory networks have increasingly been endowed with far-reaching rule-advisory and rule-making powers. They thus constitute an additional opportunity structure in Europe’s policymaking system for European and (inter)national stakeholders to gain access to centers of decision-making. Yet studies of stakeholder involvement vis-à-vis these agencies are a rare phenomenon in the literatures on interest representation and agency autonomy.

The aim of this seminar is to address this gap by explaining patterns of stakeholder involvement vis-à-vis European regulatory agencies, specifically vis-à-vis the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) in the period 2003-2010. Our findings suggest that the level and kind of agency activity has little effect on the number of stakeholders, but does affect the diversity of the stakeholder population. 

Published by  ACCESS EUROPE