The dynamics of change in EU governance

Contents:

1. The Dynamics of Change in EU Governance - Udo Diedrichs, Wulf Reiners and Wolfgang Wessels
2. Soft Law as a New Mode of Governance - Anne Peters
3. Classifying and Mapping the OMC in Different Policy Areas - Colin Shaw
4. The Pensions OMC: Why Did it Emerge and How Has it Evolved? - David Natali
5. Social Policy and Environmental Policy: Comparing Modes of Governance - Oliver Treib, Holger Bähr and Gerda Falkner
6. Cohesion Policy in the New Member States: Unfolding New Modes of Governance? - Kálmán Dezséri and Krisztina Vida
7. Modes of Governance in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy - Udo Diedrichs
8. Modes of EU Governance in the Justice and Home Affairs Domain: Specific Factors, Types, Evolution Trends and Evaluation - Jörg Monar
9. New Modes of Governance: Perspectives from the Legal and the Living Architecture of the European Union - Udo DiedrichsThis book brings together the research of different academic disciplines to explore the recent transformation of governance in the European Union.

The emergence, execution and evolution of new modes of EU governance across several policy fields - encompassing all three former pillars of the European Union - are mapped, analysed and evaluated. In particular, the contributors focus on the ways in which these innovative mechanisms and practices relate to 'old' methods of governance and what their implications are for both the effectiveness and efficiency of policy-making. Particular attention is devoted to the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the shape of EU governance. Conclusions are drawn in the form of an integrated framework that explores the dynamics and differentiation of EU governance.

Linking research on modes of governance to the analysis of the basic legal, institutional and procedural features of the EU up to the Lisbon Treaty, this book will prove useful reading for scholars, researchers and policy-makers in the fields of European studies, law and economics, and political science and theory.