Informal Governance in the European Union

Edited by Thomas Christiansen, Professor of Political Science and European Integration Department of Political Science, Luiss Università Guido Carli and Simona Piattoni, Professor of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy

• Contents: Preface 1. Informal Governance in the European Union: An Introduction 2. Informal Governance: Improving EU Democracy? 3. Cultures of States and Informal Governance in the EU: An Exploratory Study of Elites, Power and Identity 4. Common Market Institutions, Fraud and Informal Networks 5. Building Velvet Triangles: Gender and Informal Governance 6. The Informal Governance of EU Environmental Policy: The Case of Biodiversity Protection 7. Selling off the State and Supranational Regulation: Informal Governance in the EU 8. Informal Governance and Biotechnology 9. Formal and Informal Governance in Single Market Regulation 10. Informal Governance in the Common Agriculture Policy 11. Informality as an Asset? The Case of EMU 12. Governing by Informal Networks? Nuclear Interest Groups and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU 13. Backing into the Future? Informality and the Proliferation of Governance Modes (and Policy Participants) in the EU Bibliography Index

‘Informal Governance in the European Union is a unique addition to both the European Union and public administration literature. . . A study of this type is long overdue.'