Although we still celebrate the late twentieth-century ‘victory of democracy’, our understanding of what democracy … depoliticization. As the experience of the EU suggests, the combination of popular democracy and legitimacy is proving increasingly …

This paper argues that current widespread characterizations of EU governance as multi-level and networked overlook the …

different domains of governance. The third question is an altogether different, evaluative question: how should we assess these …

Coordination (OMC) in European social policy. The OMC is an experimentalist approach to European Union governance, based on … democracy), before going on to assess the findings of recent empirical research on its effectiveness in terms of policy change …, governance, and mutual learning. I argue that both the democratic legitimacy and the practical effectiveness of existing OMC …

and argument over the direction of the policy agenda. This aspect, which is ultimately the difference between a democracy … and an enlightened form of authoritarianism, is an essential element of even the ‘thinnest’ theories of democracy, yet is …

In recent years, not only governance, but also civil society has been a veritable growth industry both in politics and … gap between the EU and its citizens, as materialised in the EU-discourse of participatory democracy. On the basis of an …. Furthermore, there is little empirical evidence that would confirm the normative expectations of deliberative democracy. …

participation constitutes the fundamental tenet of democracy; in others, democracy is closely linked to pluralism and the protection … Dutch democracy that are reflected in the democratic system? Five core principles are distinguished, each of which has been … institutionalised in various ways. The second question is: which ideas on democracy of key political thinkers of the 19th and early 20th …

The paper presents a new approach to EU governance by stressing the interdependence of governance and integration. It … suggests that EU governance is not just shaped by the emerging properties of the EU polity but has a strong impact both on … integration and coherence of member state systems up to a point where European ‘good governance’ may threaten the governability …

This paper is about the difficult relationship between law and governance in the European Union. The turn to governance … the turn to governance seems to be irresistible and irreversible. Such innovation, however, is not easily reconcilable … governing techniques that are today defined as governance can also be found within national systems and were, furthermore, the …

-fold classification of EU modes of governance is developed based on the dimensions of centralization/dispersion (of authority), strict …