Rationing drugs in England and France: How a ‘depoliticised’ regulator can become a source of politicisation

A key trend in European politics since the 1990s has been the delegation of important policymaking responsibilities to unelected decision-makers such as independent agencies and supranational actors. Takuya Onoda writes that while this has frequently been viewed as a process of depoliticisation, the use of unelected bodies can paradoxically increase the political contestation of policy decisions.

Read Takuya Onoda's blog post on LSE's "European Politics and Policy" blog.

Read the full paper (open access) published in the Journal of European Public Policy