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European governance still technocratic? New modes of governance for food safety regulation in the European Union

Fischer, Robert - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12

This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship between scientific expertise and policy-making in the foodstuffs sector and scrutinises the hypothesis that the European Commission follows a technocratic model in the food...

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'Deliberative Supranationalism' A Defence

Joerges, Christian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 07

This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...

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A new concept of deepening European integration? The European Research Area and the emerging role of policy coordination in a multi-level governance system

Kaiser, Robert; Prange, Heiko - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10

Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the so-called "open method of coordination" (OMC) has gained much attention as a procedure that occupies an intermediary place between intergovernmental cooperation and supranational legislation. In this...

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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...

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The European Parliaments Political Legitimacy and the Commissions Misleading Management: Towards a Parliamentarian European Union?

Muntean, Andrei M. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 05

This paper studies the basic characteristics of the political legitimacy of the European Parliament (EP) within the … supranational political system of the European Union (EU) and argues that an increase in the political legitimacy of the EP might … provide a solution to the legitimacy problem at the EU level of supranational governance. The case study of misleading …

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A New Kind of Legitimacy for a New Kind of Parliament The Evolution of the European Parliament

Wessels, Wolfgang; Diedrichs, Udo - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

The Treaty on European Union (EU) has on the one hand increased democratic legitimacy of the integration process by … confering new powers to the European Parliament (EP) - legitimacy viewed as an attribute-, while on the other hand acceptance by … the citizens - legitimacy conceived as orientation - dropped considerably after Maastricht. This situation hints at a …

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The Perils of Committee Governance: Intergovernmental Bargaining during the BSE Scandal in the European Union

Krapohl, Sebastian; Zurek, Karolina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 05

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate between principal-agent theory and the concept of deliberative supranationalism regarding the functioning of the EU committee system by analysing regulatory policy-making in the BSE case. The BSE crisis can be seen as a critical instance for committee...

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How leader states influence EU policy-making: Analysing the expert strategy

Haverland, Markus - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 12

Research focusing on the leader-laggard dynamic in EU policy-making has significantly contributed to our understanding of why EU policies often go beyond the least common denominator and why policies look the way they do. The literature has also provided plausible arguments about the incentives...

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Internet @ Europe: Overcoming institutional fragmentation and policy failure

Werle, Raymund - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 06

For more than a decade the Internet was confronted with ignorance and resistance in many European countries. National and European technology policies were unfavorable to not invented here technologies and committed to open networks of a different kind. The incumbent network operators in...

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Two Worlds of Europeanisation Unpacking Models of Government Innovation and Transgovernmental Imitation

Trondal, Jarle - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 01

Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the Europeanisation of domestic Research and Higher Educational policy (R&E policy)...

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