This new edition sets out an account of EU law that includes not only that law's established
features, but captures its development in recent years and the challenges facing the …

For the longest time, the participation of civil society has not been an area of interest for
neither EU researchers nor political decision-makers. This changed with a rising interest in …

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory
interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford …

This work approaches the issue of democratic deficit from the angle of accountability, seen
in contemporary society as an essential element of democratic government. It looks at …

At the beginning of the 1990s a new discourse emerged at the European Union level,
insisting on the necessity of 'civil society'participation in decision‐making processes. Based …

Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era
of globalisation. As consumer transactions and corporate activities continue to develop with …

The relatively recent blossoming of multiple soft law tools and the calls for a soft
harmonization of European private law have invited reflection on the genealogy of soft law …

One of the most common arguments about 'new governance'is that it is characterised by
heterarchy rather than by hierarchy, creating horizontal modes of governance among a …

The open method of coordination (OMC) has increased the competence of the European
Union to regulate areas where the traditional Community legislative processes are weak, or …

Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European
perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the …