New Political Spaces? Enhancing the Legitimacy of Delegated Agencies

新的政治空间？

• 批准号: ES/L010925/1
• 负责人: Matthew Wood
• 金额: $ 16.37万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL010925%2F1
• 关键词: New; Political; Spaces; Enhancing; Legitimacy

This research project will examine how to improve the legitimacy of delegated agencies. Examples of delegated agencies range from Non-ministerial Departments like the Forestry Commission, to Non-departmental Public Bodies such as the Environment Agency, and European agencies like the European Banking Authority. These agencies or 'quangos' offer a range of practical benefits such as meeting long-term policy commitments, instituting expertise in policymaking, and helping to reduce overload on central government. At the same time, however, they often suffer from problems relating to their democratic legitimacy, as they cannot claim the same electoral mandate as politicians. This research project will examine ways in which the legitimacy of agencies can be improved, or made more robust, and hence how the benefits they have for governance can be maximised. In particular, the research looks at how legitimacy can be enhanced via external engagement with stakeholders, the media, and the wider public, focusing on six delegated agencies at the UK and EU levels in three policy areas (health technology regulation, disease control and prevention, and food safety). Through a mixture of surveys of stakeholders, semi-structured interviews, and analysis of media coverage and agency documents, the research will examine what strategies agencies have for engaging with the public, and whether those strategies help improve trust and confidence in the agencies. The project will then produce recommendations for how agencies may adopt improved strategies for engagement to enhance public trust and confidence and increase their levels of legitimacy. Workshops with agencies and policy documents will be produced to help agencies implement the recommendations from the project. Moreover, the PI will engage more widely with the public by holding a public event, writing online blog posts, and producing a factual documentary on the issue of legitimacy in contemporary governance, translating the specific academic themes of the project into broader topics of discussion for enhancing public knowledge and understanding of complex forms of delegated governance.

这项研究项目将研究如何提高授权机构的合法性。授权机构的例子从林业委员会这样的非部门性部门，到环境局这样的非部门性公共机构，以及欧洲银行管理局这样的欧洲机构。这些机构或“半官方机构”提供了一系列实际好处，如履行长期政策承诺、建立政策制定方面的专业知识，以及帮助减轻中央政府的负担。然而，与此同时，他们经常遭受与其民主合法性有关的问题，因为他们不能声称拥有与政客相同的选举授权。这项研究项目将研究如何提高机构的合法性，或使其更加强大，从而使它们对治理的好处最大化。特别是，这项研究着眼于如何通过与利益相关者、媒体和更广泛的公众进行外部接触来增强合法性，重点是英国和欧盟层面三个政策领域(卫生技术监管、疾病控制和预防以及食品安全)的六个授权机构。通过对利益相关者的调查、半结构化访谈以及对媒体报道和机构文件的分析，这项研究将检查机构与公众接触的战略，以及这些战略是否有助于提高对机构的信任和信心。然后，该项目将就各机构如何采取改进的参与战略以增强公众信任和信心并提高其合法性水平提出建议。将与各机构和政策文件一起举办讲习班，以帮助各机构执行该项目提出的建议。此外，和平倡议将通过举办公共活动、撰写在线博客文章和制作关于当代治理合法性问题的事实纪录片，将项目的具体学术主题转化为更广泛的讨论主题，以增进公众对复杂形式的授权治理的了解和理解，从而更广泛地与公众接触。

项目成果

Understanding Felt Accountability The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government

理解责任感 机构首席执行官对中央政府的责任感的制度前因

• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12547
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Governance
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Schillemans T

A Multidimensional Reputation Barometer for Public Agencies: A Validated Instrument.

公共机构的多维声誉晴雨表：经过验证的工具。

• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13158
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Public administration review
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Overman S

Controlling EU Agencies - The Rule of Law in a Multi-jurisdictional Legal Order

控制欧盟机构 - 多司法管辖区法律秩序中的法治

• DOI: 10.4337/9781789905427.00019
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Gabbi S

The politics of co-production: risks, limits and pollution

• DOI: 10.1332/174426415x14412037949967
• 发表时间: 2016-05-01
• 期刊: EVIDENCE & POLICY
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Flinders, Matthew;Wood, Matthew;Cunningham, Malaika
• 通讯作者: Cunningham, Malaika

Reconciling credibility and accountability: how expert bodies achieve credibility through accountability processes

协调可信度和问责制：专家机构如何通过问责流程获得可信度

• DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2018.1515875
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: European Politics and Society
• 作者: Landwehr C