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dc.contributor.authorDeruelle, T
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-12T08:38:38Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-12
dc.description.abstractThe European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is the agency in charge of detecting and assessing communicable diseases in the European Union (EU). Over its fifteen years of existence, the “Centre” has not only assessed risks but also occasionally advised on how to manage them. Assuming an advising role on the management of risks is usually how agencies contribute to policymaking in the EU, but the ECDC is particularly constrained by the limits imposed on its mandate by EU treaties. Public health is only a coordinating competence in the EU and the ECDC is, in principle, barred from giving explicit advice on how to manage public health risks. The goal of this thesis is to explain how the ECDC is empowered beyond its mandated activities. It addresses the puzzle of the Centre’s empowerment by investigating the role of reputation and by proposing an original causal mechanism of empowerment through reputation. I probed this mechanism through a narrative analysis of four areas of empowerment of the ECDC: the creation of the Centre, HIV/AIDS, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the 2009 H1N1 crisis as well as an area with a negative outcome: non-communicable diseases (NCDs). My research shows that over the 15 years of the ECDC’s existence, the role of reputation in the Centre’s empowerment has been to assist actors in engaging in inferential processes that set a course of action towards the ECDC’s empowerment. These findings are important for the literature on bureaucratic reputation: reputation ought to be further used in public policy to understand how and why agents put their trusts in others to produce change. On European agencies, this thesis also demonstrates that a power approach is relevant and, ironically the best way to not eschew the least powerful European agencies from scientific scrutiny.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/125331
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonI want to publish a book based on my thesisen_GB
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_GB
dc.subjectHealth Politicsen_GB
dc.subjectHealth crisesen_GB
dc.subjectRegulationen_GB
dc.subjectBureaucratic Reputationen_GB
dc.titleDiscreet Power through Reputation. Bureaucratic Empowerment and Disease Control in the EU.en_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2021-04-12T08:38:38Z
dc.contributor.advisorEngeli, Ien_GB
dc.contributor.advisorCassidy, Aen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentSSIS Politicsen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in European Politicsen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctoral Thesisen_GB
rioxxterms.versionNAen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-04-12
rioxxterms.typeThesisen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2021-04-12T08:38:46Z


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