Jordana, JacintPérez Durán, IxchelTriviño Salazar, Juan Carlos2024-03-272024-03-272021Jordana J, Perez-Duran I, Triviño-Salazar JC. Drivers of integration? EU agency board members on transboundary crises. Comparative European Politics. 2021;19(1):26-48. DOI: 10.1057/s41295-020-00221-61472-4790http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59596The European Union continuously faces transboundary crises (TBCs), such as the 1996 and 2000 outbreaks of ‘mad cow disease’, or the 2015 refugee crisis. Within this context, European Union agencies (EAs) have emerged as technical repositories that are capable of addressing such crises more efficiently than intergovernmental cooperation. However, their effective implication in transboundary crisis management largely varies, as different degrees of involvement can be observed. Different angles can be adopted to make sense of variation in the response of agencies to TBCs; hence, this study focuses on the role of EA management boards. These boards epitomize the unique nature of EU institutions, in that they represent the Member States and integrate their network capabilities into a single entity. Our study assesses perceptions of board members concerning three aspects related to the capacity of agencies to respond to TBCs: decision-making, coordination, and resources, based on a survey distributed among board members and a biographical database.application/pdfengThis version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00221-6info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00221-6EU agenciesManagement boardsTransboundary crisesDecision-makingCoordinationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess