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Multiple Principals’ preferences, Types of Control Mechanisms, and Agent’s Discretion in Trade Negotiations

Document type:
Buchbeitrag
Author(s):
Heldt, Eugénia C.
Abstract:
The European Parliament is now granted joint powers with the Council of the EU on trade policy issues. In this chapter, I explore how changing the delegation structure that now relies on multiple principals shapes the Commission’s discretion in the negotiation of trade agreements. I argue that an agent’s amount of discretion can be high or low depending on the preference heterogeneity between multiple principals and the type of control mechanisms available to principals during the negotiation pr...     »
Editor:
Tom Delreux; Johan Adriaensen
Book title:
The Principal Agent Model and the European Union
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher address:
Basingstoke
Year:
2017
DOI:
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55137-1_9
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