Controlling Comitology [electronic resource] : Accountability in a Multi-Level System /
Brandsma, G.author.
Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU. Member State and Commission actors together create roughly 2,500 executive acts per year amounting to half of all European laws. Using new European and national data, this books argues that its accountability has improved over time, but that unexpected gaps have emerged.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures, Tables and Boxes""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""1 Hidden Power""; ""2 Comitology: The System, the Committees and Their Participants""; ""3 Accountability and Multi-Level Governance""; ""4 System-Level Accountability: Conflict Over Control""; ""5 Committee-Level Accountability: System Meets Practice""; ""6 Participant-Level Accountability: Substantive Talks and Deafening Silence""; ""7 Comitology and Multi-Level Accountability""; ""Annex: Overview of Sources Regarding the Post-Lisbon Negotiations on Comitology""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""
""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU. Member State and Commission actors together create roughly 2,500 executive acts per year amounting to half of all European laws. Using new European and national data, this books argues that its accountability has improved over time, but that unexpected gaps have emerged.
European Union.
Europe-Politics and government.
Law-Europe.
International organization.
Globalization.
Political science.
European Union Politics.
European Politics.
European Law.
International Organization.
Globalization.
Political Science.