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‘Deliberative Political Processes’ Revisited: What Have we Learnt About the Legitimacy of Supranational Decision‐Making *
Author(s) -
JOERGES CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 2006
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/j.1468-5965.2006.00662.x
Subject(s) - legitimacy , unitary state , politics , corporate governance , multi level governance , political science , law and economics , political economy , public administration , positive economics , epistemology , sociology , law , economics , management , philosophy
The ‘comitology mode’ of decision‐making can be interpreted as a response to the non‐unitary and non‐hierarchical (‘heterarchical’) nature of the EU. It is of exemplary importance since it represents an institutionalized sui generis response to the regulatory needs of the ‘multilevel system of governance sui generis ’ that characterizes Europe's political economy.