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Administering Europe?
Author(s) -
Everson Michelle
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5965.00106
Subject(s) - legislature , political science , accommodation , administration (probate law) , law and economics , politics , public administration , legislative process , administrative law , political economy , law , economics , neuroscience , biology
In conditions of political and constitutional uncertainty, administrative law requires reassessment. Three analyses of the once neo‐liberal EU market (non‐majoritarian, deliberative, heterarchical) show how its evolving socialization has resulted in politically pluralist market administration. Governmental, EU and private actors all voice their views within this administrative framework, but EC law does not determine which single view is legitimate. EU administration should therefore be viewed as entailing a complex process of interest accommodation rather than the simple execution of legislative mandates. Constitutional principles to ‘civilize’ debate are needed, ensuring that EU market management is not dominated by the strongest interest.