Controlling Comitology
Accountability in a Multi-Level System
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 184 pages
978-1-349-45740-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 184 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-45740-3 (9781349457403)
DOI
10.1057/9781137319647
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
08/2013
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Person
Gijs Jan Brandsma is Assistant Professor at the School of Governance at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His articles have appeared in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, European Law Journal, Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and others.
Content
List of Figures List of Tables List of 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 Notes Literature Index