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| Efficient and Democratic Governance in the European Union | |||
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| CONNEX Report Series No 9 | |||
| 355 p., Mannheim, 2008 | |||
| ISSN1864-1539 | |||
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Abstract
"Efficient and Democratic Governance in the European Union" was the topic investigated by the international research project CONNEX during the four years of its life time The papers contained in this volume were presented in the plenary sessions of the network's Final Conference, University of Mannheim, March 6-8, 2008.They covered the issues which were at the core of CONNEX: a) Instruments and institutions for efficient EU governance, b) Accountability and representation in a multi-level system and c) Civil society involvement, social capital and interest intermediation.
Contents
Introductions
Beate Kohler-Koch & Fabrice Larat
Chapter 1
The richness of CONNEX research in a nutshell
Beate
Kohler-Koch
The institutional architecture of multilevel governance
Chapter 2
Europe's Accumulated Executive Order
Morten Egeberg
Chapter 3
Perspectives on the European Commission
Hussein Kassim
Chapter 4
The EU's Impact on Domestic Policies: Perspectives for Future
Research
Christoph Knill
Flexibility of governance through new instruments
Chapter 5
The ‘Community Method’ : Chronicle of a Death too early
Foretold
Renaud Dehousse
Chapter 6
EU-policy Instruments: To What Extend are they EU-specific? Comparison
and transfer of European environmental policy instruments
Charlotte Halpern
Chapter 7
A New Public-Private Divide? Co- and Self-Regulation in the
EU
Thomas Conzelmann
Chapter 8
Discussion: The Community Method and New Modes of Governance
Mark Pollack
Multilevel accountability in the European Union
Chapter 9
Accountability in Europe's Accumulated Executive Order
Deirdre
Curtin
Chapter 10
Pushing the EU to democratic Accountability
Carol Harlow
Chapter 11
Accountability in EU Multi-level Governance
Yannis
Papadopoulos
Chapter 12
TContested Norms and Democratic Governance Beyond the
State
Antje Wiener
Political representation in the European Union
Chapter 13
The Legitimacy of the EU After Enlargement
Jacques
Thomassen
Chapter 14
Understanding European Parliament Elections
Michael Marsh
Civil Society, Social Capital and Interest Intermediation
Chapter 15
Social Capital as Catalyst of Civic Engagement and Quality of
Governance
William Maloney
Chapter 16
In Search of the Good EU Citizen: WYSIWYG?
Jan W. Van Deth
Chapter 17
Does Participatory Governance Hold its Promises?
Beate
Kohler-Koch
Chapter 18
Comments on Beate Kohler-Koch and Jan W. Van Deth
Dario
Castiglione
Chapter 19
EU-Society Relations and Interest Intermediation: A Contribution to
the Debate
Carlo Ruzzan
EU governance in perspective
Chapter 20
The Living Constitution of the EU
Sverker Gustavsson
Chapter 21
Distributed Governance: The Evolving Ecology of the European
Union
Alberta M. Sbragia