Recently, political science has seen an intense debate about the phenomenon of “governance”. The aim of this paper is … to clarify the basic concepts that are at the heart of this debate, notably “governance” and “modes of governance”. It … classified according to whether they emphasise the politics, polity or policy dimensions of governance. We use these categories …

theories of integration and apply them to the understanding of the role law and other normative orders and governance processes …

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

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

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 …

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 …