IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/eeupol/v24y2023i1p121-142.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared

Author

Listed:
  • Jonathan Zeitlin

    (Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Bernardo Rangoni

    (Department of Politics, University of York, York, UK)

Abstract

How far and under what conditions may experimentalist governance be an efficient and legitimate means of responding to diversity among EU member states, in comparison to both conventional uniform regulation and differentiated integration? By comparing two major domains where the challenge of integrating national diversity has arisen prominently, electricity and banking, we find that under conditions of high interdependence and high uncertainty, diachronic experimentalism may be a necessary condition for synchronic uniformity. Uniform rules can be accepted as efficient and legitimate by member states, provided that they are regularly revised based on implementation experience through deliberative review processes in which national officials themselves participate. Our findings on EU banking regulation further suggest that experimentalist governance and differentiated integration may also be complementary, but asymmetrically so, in that the latter depends on the former to accommodate diversity within and across member states, but not vice versa.

Suggested Citation

  • Jonathan Zeitlin & Bernardo Rangoni, 2023. "EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism: Electricity and banking compared," European Union Politics, , vol. 24(1), pages 121-142, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:eeupol:v:24:y:2023:i:1:p:121-142
    DOI: 10.1177/14651165221126387
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14651165221126387
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/14651165221126387?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:eeupol:v:24:y:2023:i:1:p:121-142. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.