Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

Towards a New Architecture
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-960449-4
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Experimentalist Governance in the European Union advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within-and increasingly beyond-its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy domains. In this architecture, framework goals and measures for gauging their achievement are established by joint
action of the Member States and EU institutions. Lower-level units are given the freedom to advance these ends as they see fit. But in return for this autonomy, they must report regularly on their performance and participate in a peer review in which their results are compared with those of others pursuing
different means to the same general ends. The framework goals, performance measures, and decision-making procedures are themselves periodically revised by the actors, including new participants whose views come to be seen as indispensable to full and fair deliberation.

The editors' introduction sets out the core features of this experimentalist architecture and contrasts it to conventional interpretations of EU governance, especially the principal-agent conceptions underpinning many contemporary theories of democratic sovereignty and effective, legitimate law making. Subsequent chapters by an interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars explore the architecture's applicability across a series of key policy domains, including data privacy,
financial market regulation, energy, competition, food safety, GMOs, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, fundamental rights, justice and home affairs, and external relations. Their authoritative studies show both how recent developments often take an experimentalist turn but also admit of
multiple, contrasting interpretations or leave open the possibility of reversion to more familiar types of governance. The results will be indispensable for all those concerned with the nature of the EU and its contribution to contemporary governance beyond the nation-state.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of public policy, public administration, international relations, constitutional and administrative law, and EU studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabel, Charles F.

Zeitlin, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1: Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin: Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU
2: Abraham Newman: Innovating European Data Privacy Regulation: Unintended Pathways to Experimentalist Governance
3: Elliot Posner: The Lamfalussy Process: New Forms of Financial Rulemaking in the EU
4: Burkard Eberlein: Experimentalist Governance in the Energy Sector
5: Yane Svetiev: Networked Competition Governance in the EU: Centralization, Decentralization, or Experimentalist Architecture?
6: Ingmar von Homeyer: Emerging Experimentalism in EU Environmental Governance
7: Ellen Vos: Responding to Catastrophe: Towards a New Architecture for EU Food Safety Regulation?
8: Patrycja Dabrowska: EU Governance of GMOs: Political Struggles and Experimentalist Solutions?
9: Gráinne de Búrca: Stumbling into Experimentalism: The EU Anti-Discrimination Regime
10: Jörg Monar: Experimentalist Governance in Justice and Home Affairs
11: Olivier De Schutter: The Role of Evaluation in Experimentalist Governance: Learning by Monitoring in the Establishment of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
12: Elsa Tulmets: Experimentalist Governance in EU External Relations: Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
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Über Autor(innen)

Zeitlin, Jonathan
Jonathan Zeitlin was Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Directed the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and was Founding Director of the European Union Center. He has published extensively on new forms of governance in the European Union, as well as on comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and public policy. He is frequently invited to provide policy advice and present his research on EU governance to European institutions, national governments, think tanks, and NGOs. Among his recent books are Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes (Routledge, 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Business History (OUP, 2007); and The Open Method of Coordination in Action (PIE-Peter Lang, 2005). He is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Sabel, Charles F.
Charles F. Sabel was formerly the Ford International Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Learning by Monitoring (2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism (with Michael C. Dorf, 2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (with Archon Fung and Dara O'Rourke, 2001, Beacon Press), Worlds of Possibility (ed. with Jonathan Zeitlin, 1997, Cambridge University Press), Ireland: Local Partnerships and Social Innovation (with the LEED Programme of the OECD, 1996), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (with Michael Piore, 1984, Basics Books), Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (1982, Cambridge University Press). He is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School, a post he has held since 1995.

Charles F. Sabel was formerly the Ford International Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Learning by Monitoring (2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism (with Michael C. Dorf, 2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (with Archon Fung
and Dara O'Rourke, 2001, Beacon Press), Worlds of Possibility (ed. with Jonathan Zeitlin, 1997, Cambridge University Press), Ireland: Local Partnerships and Social Innovation (with the LEED Programme of the OECD, 1996), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (with Michael Piore, 1984, Basics Books), Work
and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (1982, Cambridge University Press). He is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School, a post he has held since 1995.

Jonathan Zeitlin was Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Directed the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and was Founding Director of the European Union Center. He has published extensively on new forms of governance in the European Union, as well as on comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and public policy. He is frequently invited to provide
policy advice and present his research on EU governance to European institutions, national governments, think tanks, and NGOs. Among his recent books are Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes (Routledge, 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Business History (OUP, 2007); and The Open Method of
Coordination in Action (PIE-Peter Lang, 2005). He is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.