Regionalization and Globalization in Regulatory Capitalism: the Regional Dimension in the Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies XavierFern´andez-i-Mar´ ın * Jacint Jordana † David Levi-Faur ‡ June, 2010 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Theoretical Approaches on Regionalism and Globalization 4 3 Research Question and Hypothesis 6 4 Model Design, Data and Methods 8 5 Findings 13 6 Conclusions 19 * Contact author: xfernandez@ibei.org. This paper is part of a work-in-progress research project by Xavier Fern´ andez-i-Mar´ ın, Jacint Jordana and David Levi-Faur, and is a preliminary draft. Please do not quote without express permission of the authors. We thank Habiba Aloui for her assistance in the data gathering process. † jacint.jordana@upf.edu ‡ levifaur@mscc.huji.ac.il 1