Informal Governance in the European Union How Governments Make International Organizations Work / Mareike Kleine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kleine, Mareike, author.

, Knowledge Unlatched, Author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union--Decision making.

European Union.

Decision making--European Union countries.

Decision making.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Mareike Kleine is University Lecturer in EU Politics at the London School of Economics.

Summary:

The European Union is the world's most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to supranational actors such as the European Commission. This legalistic view, Mareike Kleine contends, is misleading. More often than not, governments and bureaucrats informally depart from the formal rules and thereby contradict their very purpose. Behind the EU's front of formal rules lies a thick network of informal governance practices.If not the EU's rules, what accounts for the high level of economic integration among its members? How does the EU really work? In answering these questions, Kleine proposes a new way of thinking about international organizations. Informal governance affords governments the flexibility to resolve conflicts that adherence to EU rules may generate at the domestic level. By dispersing the costs that integration may impose on individual groups, it allows governments to keep domestic interests aligned in favor of European integration. The combination of formal rules and informal governance therefore sustains a level of cooperation that neither regime alone permits, and it reduces the EU's democratic deficit by including those interests into deliberations that are most immediately affected by its decisions. In illustrating informal norms and testing how they work, Kleine provides the first systematic analysis, based on new material from national and European archives and other primary data, of the parallel development of the formal rules and informal norms that have governed the EU from the 1958 Treaty of Rome until today.

Contents:

Liberal regime theory

Formal and informal governance in the European Union

Adding brakes to the motor : the Commission's agenda-setting power

Communication cords : decision-making in the Council and the Parliament

On an elusive ripcord : the implementation of EU policies

Knowing the limits

The Council presidency as an adjudicator

Adjudicatory authority in practice : the working time directive.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801469398

0801469392

9780801469404

0801469406

OCLC:

863593897

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access