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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

and controlled by ‘comitology’ committees composed of civil servants from the administrations of the Member States … the EP this most recent reform of comitology is characterised as a great breakthrough in parliamentary control over EU … question whether the latest Decision on Comitology actually does alleviate the current accountability deficits of comitology. …

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Accountability deficits in European ‘Comitology’ decision-making

Brandsma, Gijs Jan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 05

Comitology committees are often accused of not being accountable. This paper aims to provide building blocks to analyze …

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Sovereignty or Management? The Dual Character of the EC's Supranationalism --Revisited

Areilza, José de - Jean Monnet Chair - 1995

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The Determinants of Control of Commissions Executive Functions

Franchino, Fabio - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 01

The aim of this article is twofold. First, I review the political science literature on delegation and control and apply the control side of agency theory to the activities of the Commission. Second, I test McCubbins and Pages (1987) propositions on the determinants of control. I then conclude...

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Institutionalism and Commissions Executive Discretion: an Empirical Analysis

Franchino, Fabio - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 07

States and the Parliament delegate policy authority to the Commission and design ex-post control procedures (i.e. Comitology …

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Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the Treaty of Amsterdam

Pollack, Mark A. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 04

This paper applies a principal-agent model of delegation, agency and agenda setting to the 1996 intergovernmental conference and the Treaty of Amsterdam, in order to understand both the delegation of powers to supranational organizations in the new Treaty, and the efforts of such organizations...

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Synchronised national publics as functional equivalent of an integrated European public. The case of biotechnology

Seifert, Franz - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 09

In the second half of the nineties, a number of EU Member States went through intense public controversies over agro-food biotechnology. These controversies occurred almost synchronously, brought about parallel issue-framings and actor-constellations, led national governments to adopt...

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The European Commission between Supranationalism and Intergovernmentalism

DRĂGAN, Alexandra - In: Europolity – Continuity and Change in European … 5 (2011) 2, pp. 17-23

This paper aims to analyse the character of the European Commission, which gravitates between supranational and intergovernmental, by presenting the main arguments meant to support the aforementioned positions. Thus, in order to demonstrate the supranational character I used the arguments...

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Control of the Commission's Executive Functions

Franchino, Fabio - In: European Union Politics 1 (2000) 1, pp. 63-92

The literature on implementation committees predominantly emphasizes their informational role and relies on a sui generis characterization of the European Union. This article reasserts their control function and locates these committees within the core tenets of rational choice and agency...

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New Governance fatigue? Administration and democracy in the European Union

Comella, Rosa - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007

Abstract: I first examine new governance as the compound of multilevel and network governance. I structure its main claims around the principles of partnership and flexibility, which serve to demote the notions of stateness, publicity, legalism, and hierarchy. I use the Open Method of...

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