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Experimentalism in the EU : Common ground and persistent differences
Author(s) -
Sabel Charles F.,
Zeitlin Jonathan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
regulation and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.417
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1748-5991
pISSN - 1748-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01157.x
Subject(s) - experimentalism , constitutionalism , accountability , common ground , ignorance , face (sociological concept) , state (computer science) , political science , law and economics , democracy , convergence (economics) , natural (archaeology) , political economy , sociology , law , positive economics , economics , epistemology , social science , economic growth , philosophy , communication , algorithm , archaeology , history , politics , computer science
Our central claim in this rejoinder is that experimentalist forms of organization in making regulatory rules, organizing social services, and articulating constitutional norms arise and diffuse as the problem that the actors and the state face shifts from ignorance to uncertainty. We argue that this has consequences for forms of accountability and for the conception and organization of democracy and constitutionalism. The EU , founded by diverse states in a period of continuing uncertainty, intensified by growing interdependence, proves to be a natural laboratory for observing urgent efforts to adjust to this new situation, and the symposium focuses on developments there. The symposium has brought us to see that there is more common ground in these debates than prior exchanges may have suggested. We therefore emphasize convergence on large points, while underscoring and, we hope, clarifying persistent differences, with the aim of encouraging the joint exploration of them already underway, in part explicitly, in part implicitly.