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Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...
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The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards market- or network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that...
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How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...
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multi-level governance within member states and, if so, of what type(s), and through what processes. The empirical focus is …-level governance in the period of EU membership. The British case is analyzed in relation to developments across the EU. Thus, the main … purpose is to establish whether EU cohesion policy has promoted multi-level governance in Britain and other member states and …
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According to the original scheme of the ‘Founding Fathers’, the relations between supranational authorities and national administrations were to be characterised by a strict separation of their respective spheres of competence. This did in fact hold true, at least in the original treaties...
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directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the … understanding how the Union is overned and whether, and to what degree, there is a transformation in its system of governance? This … reference, and getting beyond the tyranny of dichotomies. It is acknowledged that the “governance turn” in EU-studies is an …
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This collection of articles examines some of the legislative cornerstones of the emerging EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in light of the research question whether the relevant decision-making processes in the Justice and Home Affairs Council may best be understood from a Rationalist or...
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neither solely indirect via national governments (as the standard portrayal says), nor solely direct (through Commission …
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The EU is frequently understood as a special kind of governance system characterized by its strong degree of … national and subnational levels, as well as organized non-state interests. Nowhere is this kind of multi-level governance as …-established consultative system? We observe a proliferation over time and across sectors of this mode of governance. The use of Expert group …
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The European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a method that in principle assumes that coordination of policies can be achieved without the use of “hard law”. This paper addresses the question what the OMC represents as an instrument for European integration in the context of...
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