Administrative Innovations and Accountability Failures: The Termination of the Spanish Telecommunications Agency

Ana García-Juanatey, Jacint Jordana and David Sancho

South European Society and Politics, 2017, vol. 22, issue 3, 385-404

Abstract: We discuss how far accountability practices may be relevant to the success of independent regulators in countries without a tradition of administrative autonomy. We develop a conceptualisation of agency accountability failures and develop an analytical framework to examine the life and termination of the Spanish regulatory agency for telecommunications, CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones - Telecommunications Market Commission). We argue that the CMT’s termination was related, among other reasons, to accountability failures in its institutional design. The paper relies on a variety of sources, including legislation, literature, media coverage, and semistructured interviews with agency officials and several stakeholders.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1345798

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