Informal governance in the European union /

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Imprint:	Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 273 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Subject:	European Union. European Union countries -- Politics and government. European Union countries -- Economic policy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12241845

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Other authors / contributors:	Christiansen, Thomas. Piattoni, Simona, 1960- Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISBN:	9781843769729 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book addresses an issue of paramount importance concerning the politics of the European Union: aspects of governance and policy making in the EU that are labelled "informal". Much of the literature on the EU focuses on the formal facets of EU politics, but uniquely, the subject matter within this book deals with informal aspects such as: the role of personal relationships, the presence of non-hierarchical policy-networks and non-institutional channels of interest representation, and the relevance of the unwritten rules and routines which govern these aspects of EU politics.
Other form:	9781843763512 (hardback) 1843763516

Table of Contents:

Contributors
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Preface
1. Informal governance in the European Union: an introduction
2. Informal governance: improving EU democracy?
3. Cultures of states and informal governance in the EU: an exploratory study of elites, power and identity
4. Common Market institutions, fraud and informal networks
5. Building velvet triangles: gender and informal governance
6. The informal governance of EU environmental policy: the case of biodiversity protection
7. Selling off the state and supranational regulation: informal governance in the EU
8. Informal governance and biotechnology
9. Formal and informal governance in Single Market regulation
10. Informal governance in the Common Agricultural Policy
11. Informality as an asset? The case of EMU
12. Governing by informal networks? Nuclear interest groups and the eastern enlargement of the EU
13. Backing into the future? Informality and the proliferation of governance modes (and policy participants) in the EU
Bibliography
Index

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