Code
01D25112
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth
- Other economics and business
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
Common Foreign and Security Policy
principal-agent
European Union
Eastern Partnership
European External Action Service
Project description
The proposed project examines the discretionary power of the EEAS vis-à-vis the EU MS through applying the principal-agent model. Specifically, two interrelated questions are addressed: 1) Theoretically: how can a principal-agent model be designed for analyzing the EEAS' discretionary power? 2) Empirically: what is the degree of discretionary power enjoyed by the EEAS agent vis-à-vis the MS principals?