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Author Kleine, Mareike, author.

Title Informal governance in the European Union : how governments make international organizations work / Mareike Kleine.

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 214 pages)
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-208) and index.
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.
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. -- Publisher website.
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Language In English.
Subject European Union -- Decision making.
European Union.
Decision making.
European Union.
European Union countries -- Politics and government.
European Union countries.
Politics and government.
Decision making -- European Union countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kleine, Mareike. Informal governance in the European Union. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013 9780801452116 (DLC) 2013017591 (OCoLC)842209171
ISBN 0801469406 (electronic book)
9780801469404 (electronic book)
0801469392 (electronic book)
9780801469398 (electronic book)
9780801452116 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0801452112 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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