Henry Farrell

American Democracy is an Easy Target

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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Academic Article

“Legislate or Delegate? Bargaining over Implementation and Legislative Authority in the European Union”

March 9, 2007 EU West European Politics 30 with Carl-Fredrik Bergström and Adrienne Hèritier
In this article we explain how actors’ ability to bargain successfully in order to advance their institutional preferences has changed over time as a function of the particular institutional context. We show how actors use their bargaining power under given institutional rules in order to shift the existing balance between legislation and delegation, and shift ...
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Essay

Forget Me Not: What the EU’s New Internet Privacy Ruling Means for the United States – with Abraham Newman

May 19, 2014 Foreign Affairs with Abraham Newman
The modern innovators of Internet human rights are not U.S. leaders or bold Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. They are stodgy bureaucrats, politicians, and lawyers in Brussels, Berlin, and Strasbourg. As the National Security Agency (NSA) and American firms have relied on sucking up massive amounts of data to observe citizens and create and serve consumers, the ...
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