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Seminar “Modes of Governance” Prof. Dr. W. Wessels / Dr. des. G. Umbach 2 nd Session, April 17 th 2007. © Gaby Umbach 2007. Topics of the 2 nd session Governance Modes of Governance (MoG) Examples of Diversity of MoG in one Single Policy Area. © Gaby Umbach 2007.
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Seminar“Modes of Governance” Prof. Dr. W. Wessels / Dr. des. G. Umbach 2nd Session, April 17th 2007 © Gaby Umbach 2007
Topics of the 2nd session • Governance • Modes of Governance (MoG) • Examples of Diversity of MoG in one Single Policy Area © Gaby Umbach 2007
“The EU is already the most complex polity ever created by human artifice and it is going to become even more so before it reaches its end-state – whatever that will be” Schmitter, Philippe C. (2004): Neo-Neofunctionalism, in: Wiener, Antje / Diez, Thomas (Eds.): European Integration Theory, Oxford, pp. 45-74, p. 69. © Gaby Umbach 2007
Governance • Antipode to ‘government’ and hierarchical steering • New form of ‘governance’ beyond the concept of ‘government’ within nation states • Diminution of national sovereignty through integration • Turn away from traditional instruments of state intervention • Expansion of the range of relevant actors © Gaby Umbach 2007
European Multilevel Governance (I) • Shift to analysis of EU as governance system • Division of competences between EU and its member states • Interweavement/Interdependence of political interaction btw. different EU levels and actors • Non-hierarchical, co-operative decision-making incl. non-governmental actors in policy networks © Gaby Umbach 2007
European Multilevel Governance (II) • Combination of supranational and intergovern- mental elements • System of multilayered policy-making • Multiplication of access points to political process • Extended number of relevant state and non- state actors • New modes of political interaction, co- ordination, negotiation across different levels © Gaby Umbach 2007
Modes of Governance • ‘Community Method’ • Intergovernmental Approach • Framework Legislation / Decisions • Soft Law • Policy Co-ordination • (New) Cross-Cutting Principles of EMLG © Gaby Umbach 2007
Examples of Diversity of MoG in one Single Policy Area • Environmental Policy: • Command-and-control Approach • Soft Law • Voluntary Accords/Private Self-regulation • Regulated Self-regulation • Co-Regulation © Gaby Umbach 2007
Options for MoG analysis within the Seminar • Economic Governance (Broad Economic Policy Guidelines) • Employment Policy (European Employment Strategy) • Fiscal Surveillance (Stability and Growth Pact) • Environmental Policy • Common Foreign and Security Policy • Justice and Home Affairs • Single MarketOthers: • Healthcare • Asylum/Immigration Policy • Social inclusion • Sustainable Development • Taxation © Gaby Umbach 2007