democratic shortfall. The 2001 White Paper on Governance acknowledged that the line between expertise and political authority had …

Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he …

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 …

Community concerning the conceptual basis and instruments for the governance of biopolitics. Biopolitics refers to an emerging … a more general trend in the transformation of European governance on the one hand aiming at involving civil society … White Paper on European Governance and several related policy papers, prove to be challenging for the Union as dynamic and …

In recent years, not only governance, but also civil society has been a veritable growth industry both in politics and … legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …

consensus-building practice. Compliance with these rules stems from strategic calculations based on legitimacy concerns and the …

Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the so-called "open method of … deepening integration within a multi-level governance system, if it is applied within certain boundaries and under specific …