Suchergebnisse

European Governance is more than just a policy instrument without legal significance. Its regulatory sub-divisions, such as Comitology, the Lamfalussy procedure, and the growing number of European administrative agencies, have colonized substantive parts of the law-shaping and law-making processes. This contribution argues that European Governance is a distinct phenomenon that cannot be easily reconciled with traditional notions of legislation and administration, but needs to be theorized differently. Accordingly, its legal shape has to be adjusted to this new situation, too. Neither a - still only vaguely defined - concept of 'accountability', nor a non-binding policy concept of 'good governance' can fill this gap. A re-definition of European Governance - as an 'integrating administration' – has to take the new developments of a distinct European administrative governance sphere seriously. At the same time, it has to address the specific legitimatory problématique of the new governance structures in a sufficient manner. The specific character of these structures calls for an institutionalization of participatory patterns within the governance structures: by ensuring the involvement of civil society actors, stakeholders and the public in the arguing, bargaining, and reasoning processes of both European governance and European regulation, the odd position of European governance, which oscillates between legislative and administrative functions, can be targeted more adequately.

One result of the 4 year World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) was the formation of the multistakeholder Internet Governance Forum (IGF). This forum is a radically new form of organization for the UN as it allows for participation by the various stakeholders of the Internet, as opposed to being restricted to government representatives. Internet governance is a relatively new area of discourse that is becoming a hot issue of international dialogue. This paper briefly discusses the origins of the debate and the meaning of Internet Governance as well as outlining some of the ongoing activities in this area. The paper also discusses some ways in which the reader can get involved in the debate and why they may want to. ; Godkänd; 2006; 20061218 (ysko)

peer-reviewed ; This paper was obtained through PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) http://www.peerproject.eu ; This paper applies insights from governance and multi-level governance (MLG) studies to the analysis of Social Partnership in order to: (1) outline a methodological approach for the study of Social Partnership over time; and (2) to provide neutral framework for analysis that will facilitate the collection of empirical evidence that may contribute (either positively or negatively) to the theorising of Social Partnership as a new form of governance. The proposed methodology focuses on the extent of policy integration (and/or disaggregation) between policy interests in the Social Partnership model in order to ascertain how inclusive Irish Social Partnership is. This is considered to be important, given the variety of claims made for Social Partnership as an instrument of direct and participatory democracy.