See Screen Capture

Before the era of gov. (pre-maastricht)

Came into the debate in the 90s

Governance as opposed to government
It deals not only with governance per se but also with the interaction between the inst. and the public, subject to certain criteria of good governance
Good governance as a normative approach?
Attention to transnational networks involving non-state actors
Good gov. is participatory, transparent ad accountable. it is also effective and equitable, promising the rule of law
Corporate gov. including transparency and accountability to interests beyond the corporate boundaries
Policy networks after the reforms of the 80s (Thatcher)

Gov. as self-organizing interorganizational networks

Heterarchy rather hierarchy

Governance without
Government

Negotiation and partnership between actors

Characterisitics

Public/private, multi-level (ppt)

Territorial vs functional representation
Representation vs participation/deliberation
Read post-maastricht era

Majoritarianism vs non-majoritarianism

Questions

Lecture 18- Trends

in EU Governance-1

What is
governance?

Mix of steering modes (does it have to be hierarchical?

late 80s- about the single market

Public, public/private and private

The road to SEA

Directly-elected EP in 1979/ Delors Commission/ Mediterranean enlargement/ Concerns about international competitiveness/ Inevitability of qualified majority voting for internal market and core policies

SEA
Preparation of monetary union/ area without internal frontiers/ internal crises and the end of Cold War/ German Unification
After
Concept

the role of parliaments (extension of QMV in the Council

Issues of
competences (any limits to Community action

More restrictive context for legislation in EU

Subsidiarity-vertical and "horizontal"

New political context

Vertical
Trends in regulatory practice/ new public managemt

After Maastricht

Horizontal

Community should legislate only to the extent necessary

Non-binding measures preferred
Codes of conduct

Making the internal market work after 1002

Dealing with dIversity and divergent-social policy
New integration paradigms

Convergence and surveillance for EMU

the new challenges involved in achieving a more competitive knowledge- based economy - research and technology, education,
new working arrangements etc. do not by their very nature lend themselves to command-and-control approaches

Making the Internal Market work

1993 White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment

Not all such initiatives will be of a legislative nature; they also include close co-operation between the
Commission and the Member States, and between public authorities and the private sector.