In this article we approach the functioning of bureaucracy in ESDP from a governance perspective that also focuses on … informal patterns of interaction between the relevant bureaucratic actors. Following the governance and related network … governance approaches, the interplay between formal and informal patterns of interaction can help to overcome deadlock in policy …

Since the mid 1990s, European governance has evolved substantially, particularly in thedirection of fewer constraints …: flexibility, coordination, peer monitoring, and soft law havebecome fashionable themes. The literature on new modes of governance …-making? Are we witnessing theemergence of an entirely new system of governance at the European level? In order toaddress these …