Introduction This tutorial shows how to process the dataset of institutional characteristics of regulatory agencies in R. It presents the dataset presented at the journal article entitled “Agency proliferation and the globalization of the regulatory state: Introducing a data set on the institutional features of regulatory agencies”, by Jacint Jordana, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín and Andrea C. Bianculli, published at Regulation & Governance (December 2018).
The necessary packages in R to follow the instructions are the following:
State structures have experienced significant transformation with the spread of globalization. This paper examines how to measure one major change that has occurred in recent decades: the worldwide proliferation of public agencies with regulatory …
Regulation & Governance published the article "Are regulatory agencies independent in practice? Evidence from board members in Spain" on April 2015. The article is based on an inedit dataset on the identities of regulators in Spain (1980-2010) collected with the support of a grant from the Catalan School of Public Administration. The link at the School contains the documentation and full report of the research project.
The research project was carried out at IBEI.
Comparative Political Studies published the article "The global diffusion of regulatory agencies: channels of transfer and stages of diffusion" in 2011. The article is based on an inedit dataset. This is the accompanying digital page which provides the dataset and more comprehensive information about the collected data.
Online material Codebook contains a detailed description of the creation of the database, including criteria for the definition of the units of analysis and the coverage by countries and sectors.