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Modes of Regulation in the Governance of the European Union: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation

Knill, Christoph; Lenschow, Andrea - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 02

The European Union is becoming a regulatory state with many faces. Classical top-down regulatory policy is joined by less authoritative, less interventionist and more participatory regulatory forms. At least in part, these regulatory experiments are intended to improve the quality of governing...

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The European Union benchmarking experience. From euphoria to fatigue?

Zängle, Michael - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 06

Even if one may agree with the possible criticism of the Lisbon process as being too vague in com-mitment or as lacking appropriate statistical techniques and indicators, the benchmarking system pro-vided by EUROSTAT seems to be sufficiently effective in warning against imminent failure. The...

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The paradoxical effects of institutional change for the legitimacy of European governance: the case of EU Social Policy

Wendler, Frank - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

institutional arrangements with the prospect of the legitimization of Community governance within a policy-making arena on the one … evolution in this field shows that strong tendencies towards the adaptation of Community governance to its contested legitimacy … tension between different normative standards of legitimate governance. …

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When learning hits politics or: Social policy coordination left to the administrations and the NGOs?

Kröger, Sandra - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 05

Processes of soft policy coordination in the EU and of Europeanization have in recent years mostly been conceptualised in terms of learning. The OMC is mostly seen as inducing ideational, cognitive and possibly normative learning between member states. However, the generalised learning...

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Learning about policy learning. Reflections on the European Employment Strategy

Hartlapp, Miriam - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

The concept of policy learning has been attracting increasing attention in the political science literature, notably in the many publications on the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). However, much research faces fundamental methodological problems regarding the mode of functioning and extent of...

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“Soft Law,” “Hard Law,” and European Integration: Toward a Theory of Hybridity

David M. Trubek, Patrick Cottrell, Mark Nance - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005

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

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The double voluntarism in EU social dialogue and employment policy

Schäfer, Armin; Leiber, Simone - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

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

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Governing the knowledge society: Studying Lisbon as epistemic setting

Pfister, Thomas - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

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 …

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Against the odds. The Open Method of Coordination as a selective amplifier for reforming Belgian pension policies

Vanhercke, Bart - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

effective European intervention in the domain is limited, especially for 'soft' modes of governance such as the Open Method of …

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Having a Say and Acting: Assessing the effectiveness of the European Employment Strategy as an intra-governmental coordinative instrument

López-Santana, Mariely - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

As the European Union (EU) has strengthened, scholars have emphasized the development of multilevel governance … development of non-binding regulations, we must re-consider the potential of this type of governance instrument to serve as an … intergovernmental and intra-governmental coordinative mechanism; thus contributing to the development of multilevel governance …

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