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 … effectiveness and the legitimacy of the OMC. Accordingly, it calls for a two-fold extension of the scope of analysis: First …

Union as a system of governance. It takes a broad scope in assessing the efforts of scholars and highlights significant … concerned with the supportive popular sentiment that underpins the EU’s legitimacy as a political institution. While there are …

usefulness of such an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance is due to the fact that such entities …

Recently, 'new modes of governance' based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have … gained salience in European Union governance. Can these 'new modes of governance' offer a credible solution to the challenges … governance in the light of theoretical approaches to the EU polity. While current theories of European governance shed some light …