Embedding Independent Regulatory Agencies into Administrative Traditions: Acceptance or Resistance?

Since the 1980s, independent/semi-independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) or as Coen and Thatcher (2005) call them, “non-majoritarian regulators”, have spread across countries and sectors. Especially starting in the 1990s, they have also diffused beyond economically advanced countries into developing countries, in some cases owing in significant part to externa