Informal Governance in the European Union

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Thomas Christiansen, Simona Piattoni
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 janv. 2003 - 273 pages
How are the deals and decisions of the EU made - in the meeting rooms and at the conference tables, or by informal networks in the back corridors of power?

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an introduction
1
improving EU democracy?
22
an exploratory study of elites power and identity
36
4 Common Market institutions fraud and informal networks
57
gender and informal governance
76
the case of biodiversity protection
94
informal governance in the EU
114
8 Informal governance and biotechnology
129
9 Formal and informal governance in Single Market regulation
150
10 Informal governance in the Common Agricultural Policy
173
11 Informality as an asset? The case of EMU
189
12 Governing by informal networks? Nuclear interest groups and the eastern enlargement of the EU
207
13 Backing into the future? Informality and the proliferation of governance modes and policy participants in the EU
226
Bibliography
237
Index
263
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