Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230233 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies [ISSN:] 1468-5965 [Volume:] 58 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1393-1412
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
The proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies, known as ‘agencification’, has been widely studied by scholars of EU governance. In spite of the success in explaining the roots of agencies' establishment, evidence is lacking about their development over time: have they been empowered through new resources, or have their capabilities remained the same? Which EU agencies grew the most, and why? Ultimately, how much do policymakers value these bodies? Through a newly collected longitudinal dataset, the analysis covers EU agencies' budgetary trends in the past three decades and assesses the determinants of their variation through a cross-sectional time series regression analysis and a Traj group-based model. The results show that trends in agencies’ budgetary allocation follow a punctuated equilibrium pattern. The observed variation is explained by EU-level crisis response, by the expansion of agencies' tasks and by the type of agency under analysis.
Subjects: 
EU agencies
agencification
budget
EU governance
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