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From Guardian to Bystander : Agency Independence and the FAA’s Failed Oversight of Boeing
Vries, N.B.T. de (2025) From Guardian to Bystander : Agency Independence and the FAA’s Failed Oversight of Boeing.
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| Abstract: | This thesis investigates the role of regulatory agency independence in the deterioration of the safety culture at Boeing, which culminated in the crashes of LNI610 and ETH302 involving the Boeing 737 MAX. The research focuses on the FAA and its interactions with Boeing and the US government. Via the four dimensions of agency independence it analyses how agency independence affects the risk of regulatory capture and principal-agent problems and how this affects agency oversight and by extension aviation safety. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 88 social and public administration |
| Programme: | Public Administration MSc (60020) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106467 |
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