De facto autonomy, the actual potential of regulatory agencies to go about their daily work, is often conceived to be more important to explain regulatory capacity than its formal autonomy and responsibilities. In this article we investigate whether external context factors, such as the financial and economic crisis have an impact on de facto autonomy. More specifically, we investigate whether the de facto autonomy varies after the crisis and distinctively so for specific subsets of employees within regulatory agencies. According to literature, mid-level managers of agencies are key to de facto autonomy and building a secure reputation for the agency in question. We test these external and internal effects on de facto autonomy with a survey among employees of the Dutch Financial Market Authority (N = 248). The findings show that the perceived influence of stakeholders is relatively constant, but that it is more dynamic for European stakeholders. Both middle managers and employees working at strategic and policy departments of the agency conceive the impact of European stakeholders as increasing in nature. The findings have important implications for our studies of de facto autonomy of regulatory agencies as well as reform potential after major institutional crises. |
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Laveren tussen belanghebbendenReƫle autonomie en financieel toezicht |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2012 |
Trefwoorden | regulatory governance, de facto autonomy, financial supervision, bureaucracy, institutional reform |
Auteurs | Dr. Caelesta Braun |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2012 |
Auteurs | Ewald Engelen |
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