Experimentalist governance in the European Union [[electronic resource] ] : towards a new architecture / / edited by Charles F. Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781073103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-69828-1; 9786612698286; 0-19-157341-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SabelCharles F; ZeitlinJonathan
• Disciplina: 352.114
• Soggetti: Political planning - European Union countries; European Union countries Politics and government; Europe Politics and government 1989-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of tables; List of abbreviations; 1. Learning From Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU; 2. Innovating European Data Privacy Regulation: Unintended Pathways to Experimentalist Governance; 3. The Lamfalussy Process: Polyarchic Origins of Networked Financial Rule-Making in the EU; 4. Experimentalist Governance in the European Energy Sector; 5. Networked Competition Governance in the EU: Delegation, Decentralization, or Experimentalist Architecture?; 6. Emerging Experimentalism in EU Environmental Governance7. Responding to Catastrophe: Towards a New Architecture for EU Food Safety Regulation?; 8. EU Governance of GMOs: Political Struggles and Experimentalist Solutions?; 9. Stumbling into Experimentalism: The EU Anti-Discrimination Regime; 10. Experimentalist Governance in Justice and Home Affairs; 11. The Role of Evaluation in Experimentalist Governance: Learning by Monitoring in the Establishment of the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice; 12. Experimentalist Governance in EU External Relations: Enlargement and the European Neighbourhood PolicyReferences; General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book 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 unitsare given the freedom to advance these ends as they see fit. But in return for this autonomy, they must report regu