EU institutions in multi-level governance

Abstract

This panel empirically tackles normative principles such as accountability, democratic legitimacy, (inter)governmentality, power, representation, and transparency. Contributions focus on the European Commission, the European Council, the European Ombudsperson, national officials in the Council of the European Union (EU), and stakeholders, and apply a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, ranging from interpretative and post-Foucauldian analysis to the study of self-empowerment and information quality. Building on different types of data—including text-as-data in consultations to in-depth interviews—all contributors offer insights into how institutions, their members, and stakeholders act and interact in the EU’s system of multi-level governance.

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From governmentality to inter-governmentality in EUropean governance	View Paper Details
Empowering Accountability: The European Ombudsman's Advocacy for Transparency and Good Governance	View Paper Details
Understanding the information quality of public comments on bureaucratic policymaking in the European Union: a text-as-data approach	View Paper Details
Elucidating representation in the Council of the European Union	View Paper Details