Informal Governance in the European Union: How Governments Make International Organizations Work
Mareike Kleine
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Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452116
SKU
V9780801452116
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99-16
About Mareike Kleine
Mareike Kleine is University Lecturer in EU Politics at the London School of Economics.
Reviews for Informal Governance in the European Union: How Governments Make International Organizations Work
The author provides a compelling argument for understanding the prevalence of informal governance. Using a clear conceptualization, she exposes various practices in EU policy making that have been documented frequently, but have rarely been studied in a coherent framework....In sum, I recommend Informal Governance in the European Union to students, scholars and practitioners interested in decision making, public administration and ... Read more