- Enseignant-e: Thibaud Deruelle
Political-administrative actors at a national level are increasingly confronted with complex issues that are transnational in nature, such as financial crises, pandemics, climate change, food safety scandals, labor rights infringements, etc. To tackle these challenges, several types of sector-specific regulatory regimes have been created for harmonizing rules and standards, and for ensuring coordination across different levels of governance. These regimes are mainly governed through various types of international organizations and transnational networks that have been set up to achieve regulatory cooperation among nation states - while also transcending their boundaries.
To understand this crucial phenomenon, we will focus on regulation - as the main mode of contemporary governance by, within, and beyond the state - from a bureaucratic politics perspective. Different theories, approaches and methods will be confronted and discussed. Subsequently, we will examine:
• the growing internationalization of social, environmental, and economic risks;
• the logics of bureaucratic politics and administrative power struggles;
• the process of delegation of public authority and agencification in different contexts;
• the establishment, development, functioning, reform, and effectiveness of transnational regulatory regimes in areas considered particularly challenging.
This course will be conducted in an active and interactive manner, alternating presentations by the teacher and participants, group discussions, practical applications, and external interventions by actors involved in public administration and international regulation.