the field of childcare policy. The main objective is to examine how childcare has been conceptualised for the purposes of … childcare provision, and traces their presence and dynamic development at the EU level. Based on a keyword search in the …

This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship … law. To this end, a typology is developed to distinguish between decisionist, technocratic and reflexive governance … reflexive governance. To some extent, this change can also be observed in the general debate on European governance. In …

actors at different levels of governance. The empirical results show that the Commission is a resilient central network …

policy is frequently controlled by new, less interventionist forms of governance. …

number of scholars in the social sciences. Yet beyond the bedrock agreement that governance has become (and should be) multi … types of multi-level governance. One type conceives of dispersion of authority to multi-task, territorially mutually … type of governance pictures specialized, territorially overlapping jurisdictions in a relatively flexible, non …

In this article, we analyse the development of new modes of governance in EU employment and social policy over the past …

This paper is interested in the role of knowledge as resource, medium and product of governance as well as in ways of … studying knowledge and processes of knowledge construction in EU governance. Its particular focus in this context is on the …