TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kleine, Mareike
AB  - The European Union is the world’s most advanced international organization, presiding over a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this achievement, many observers point to its formal rules that entail strong obligations and delegate substantial power to supranational actors such as the European Commission. This legalistic view, Mareike Kleine contends, is misleading. More often than not, governments and bureaucrats informally depart from the formal rules and thereby contradict their very purpose. Behind the EU’s front of formal rules lies a thick network of informal governance practices.  If not the EU’s rules, what accounts for the high level of economic integration among its members? How does the EU really work? In answering these questions, Kleine proposes a new way of thinking about international organizations.
DO  - 10.7591/cornell/9780801452116.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642711
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 863593897
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Agenda-setting theory
KW  - Decision-making
KW  - European Parliament
KW  - European Union
KW  - Member state of the European Union
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8d0c279a-5e60-4b49-9488-4e1620cb05f9/642711.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30791
PB  - Cornell University Press
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PY  - 2013-09-23
SN  - 9780801469404;9780801469398
TI  - Informal Governance in the European Union : How Governments Make International Organizations Work
ER  - 
