L'étude de la régulation et de la gouvernance réglementaire suscite une attention croissante dans les domaines de la science politique, du droit et de l’économie. L’Institut d'études politiques, historiques et internationales (IEPHI) et le Laboratoire d'analyse de la gouvernance et de l'action publique en Europe (LAGAPE) accueilleront la 7e conférence biennale du ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance à l’UNIL du 4 au 6 juillet 2018.
Les discussions porteront principalement sur les développements récents et les innovations dans ce domaine, tels que par exemple les défis posés aux pouvoirs publics et aux régulateurs par la digitalisation, avec pour thème général la régulation entre efficacité et légitimité.
Deux conférences plénières, décrites ci-dessous, sont ouvertes au public.
Conférence en anglais du Prof. Vincent Martenet (UNIL) le 4 juillet à 17:30-18:30, salle 1031 (Anthropole)
“How does cooperation foster regulation?”
Regulation needs to be approached from a global perspective. In this regard, cooperation leads, ceteris paribus, to better regulation, enforcement and use of limited resources. Cooperation must be understood as a multilevel and transversal process. In Europe, the multilevel dimension relates to the relations between EU institutions or agencies, one the one hand, and agencies of Member States or other States, on the other hand. For instance, the EU and Switzerland have concluded an agreement concerning cooperation on the application of their competition laws. In the EU, the European Cooperation Network plays an important role in the coordination of competition law enforcement. The transversal dimension of cooperation can be observed in many ways. Competition authorities interact with sectoral regulatory agencies. The latter cooperate among themselves. One of the most interesting recent developments is the involvement of data protection officers in this process. One can imagine that this involvement will become increasingly important in the future. Finally, the cooperation between regulatory agencies or competition authorities and courts is a sensitive issue due to the fundamental principles of separation of powers and independence of the judiciary. Though this last form of cooperation is limited, it nevertheless exists.
Conférence en anglais du Prof. Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, le 5 juillet à 17:30-18:30, salle 1031 (Anthropole)
“The civil society project: what went wrong?”
Prof. Prakash’s presentation will examine the roots of governance failure in the global NGO sector and suggest some possible solutions. It will critique the idea that Western donors can purchase civil societies abroad. It will revisit the intellectual foundations of the concept of the civil society to suggest that a vibrant civic sector needs to be rooted in the local community. Reliance on governmental and donor funding undermines the legitimacy of the NGO sector. It creates perverse incentives for NGOs to chase grants by catering to the preferences of their donors, instead of the communities they serve. Governance issues can be addressed once we begin to acknowledge that NGOs, like any other organizations, face agency conflicts. Like firms and governments, NGOs are susceptible to institutional failure. The governance challenge is to identify the source of such failures and then find appropriate instruments to correct them.
Parmi les autres événements marquants de la conférence, citons le Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development qui sera décerné à un·e chercheur·euse pour sa contribution exceptionnelle au domaine, ainsi que le Prix Giandomenico Majone qui sera remis au meilleur article rédigé par un·e jeune membre de la profession.