Are Regulatory Agencies in Serbia and Macedonia Transparent and Accountable?

Tomić, Slobodan and Popović, Ivona and Jovančić, Aleksandar and Vojinović, Zorica and Taseva, Slagjana (2015) Are Regulatory Agencies in Serbia and Macedonia Transparent and Accountable? [Study]

Study description

This project analysed the transparency patterns of 10 Serbian and Macedonian agencies, from five regulatory domains - energy, market competition, telecoms/IT, media, and environmental protection. The following questions are explored: a) What are the formal transparency and accountability arrangements across the 10 agencies?; b) How have these arrangements been enforced in practice? c) How to explain cross-country, cross-sector, and cross-agency variations as well as similarities, observed in the analysis? Conceptually, the study builds on a previously developed framework that serves to map doctrines of transparency and accountability. While the original framework was created to look at transparency doctrines, pursued by institutuons as well as relevant regulatees and citizens, this study seeks to explore how extensive have been the transparency regimes that were enforced by the analysed institutions (agencies). The empirical analysis identifies various types of transparency regimes across the analysed agencies, seeking to explain them by utilising widely cited determinants of institutional behaviour.

Keywords:	Serbia, accountability, Macedonia, regulatory agencies, transparency
Depositing User:	Jelena Banovic
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2019 12:40
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2019 12:40
URI:	http://dcs.ien.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/52
Additional details Additional details Alternative title: Da li su regulatorne agencije u Srbiji i Makedoniji transparentne i pouzdane? Creators: Creators Email Tomić, Slobodan UNSPECIFIED Popović, Ivona UNSPECIFIED Jovančić, Aleksandar UNSPECIFIED Vojinović, Zorica UNSPECIFIED Taseva, Slagjana UNSPECIFIED Type of data: no data Study period: From To 1 July 2014 30 June 2015 Temporal coverage: From To 2013 2015 Date: 26 August 2015 Geographic coverage: Serbia and Macedonia Study method: The study employed compound research design, based on cross-country and cross-sector variations. This method searches for distinct sectorial or country patterns; if they cannot be observed, the explanation of a variation on the dependent variable can be: (i) some of the agency-level, rather than sector- or country-level factors explain the variation; (ii) none of the factors (agency-level, sector-level, country-level) explains the variations (implicating that either a powerful explanatory factor is missing in the hypotheses, or the transparency regime is more ad-hoc driven rather than by an underlying logic). Should a lack of variation on the dependent variable be observed, it would imply the absence of variation on the key independent variable. This would require indentifying the key independent variable and its underlying mechanism of impact on the dependent variable. Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: UK Data Archive Copyright holders: RRPP Contact email address: s.tomic@ucl.ac.uk Last Modified: 22 Oct 2019 12:40