for international governance and the beginning of a new era in international law. It is the first permanent institution …

meet criteria normally associated with constitutional governance, as well as to the growing tendency towards the …

democratic quality of policy-making in international governance arrangements. However, it remains unclear under what conditions … consultation with civil society organisations and above all the White Paper on European Governance have triggered some scientific …

The EU constitutional process has ascribed a new role to civil society not only as a partner in governance but also as … is articulated in relation to EU governance and that claims to represent European citizens. The article proposes an …

In the literature on European and global governance there is a trend to conceptualize ‘public accountability’ as … accountability relations within governance networks has its merits the creeping re-conceptualization of ‘public accountability’ as an … of governance through public debate. This paper critically discusses the advance of managerial and administrative notions …

The emergence of a pan-European public sphere as a correlate of democratic governance in the EU is held to be difficult …

academic literature it is stylized as a focal point for decentralised modes of governance. But drawing on Michel Foucault …’s governmentality approach the OMC does not seem to represent an innovative governance tool but a governmental system of power. The OMC …