New Modes of Governance and the Participatory Myth

Smismans, Stijn

doi:10.1080/01402380802234540

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“…Here as elsewhere, in-built inertias will be strong. On the negative side of the ledger, it might also be noted that many of the difficulties noted above in the specific context of the BP/EHEA reflect more general problems that have also afflicted the operation of the EU's OMC (see, for example, de la Porte and Nanz 2004;Smismans 2008). The core issues of both accountability and effectiveness highlighted in the present case have similarly dogged other attempts at developing soft law modes of governance.…”

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confidence: 65%

Future Scenarios for the European Higher Education Area: Exploring the Possibilities of “Experimentalist Governance”

Harmsen

2015

The European Higher Education Area

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Future Scenarios for the European Higher Education Area: Exploring the Possibilities of “Experimentalist Governance”

Harmsen

2015

The European Higher Education Area

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“…Furthermore, accountability problems loom large (Bignami 2005;Cengiz 2016;Papadopoulos 2007;Smismans 2008).The selective composition and informality of many EAN privileges certain interests at the expense of others (Eberlein and Grande 2005: 106;Papadopoulos 2007;Smismans 2008). Their weak visibility insulates them from public scrutiny.…”

Section: Normative Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the gap in the European administrative space: the role of administrative networks in EU implementation and enforcement

Mastenbroek

Martinsen

2017

Journal of European Public Policy

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European administrative networks (EANs) are a key building block of the European Administrative Space (EAS). Crucially, they are to fill the gap between the EU's policy ambitions and its limited administrative capacities. Whereas ample research has been done on policy preparation networks, the role of implementing EANs has received less attention in the EAS literature. This article fills this gap by providing a systematic review of relevant insights in four adjacent literatures: EU governance; international relations; public administration; and EU compliance. Employing a systematic literature review, it reports divergent findings on EAN establishment, functioning and impact, as well as variant normative evaluations. These variant findings partly relate to a lack of comparative research, selective policy coverage and predominant focus on North-western states. We conclude by suggesting a number of lines for future research on these four important themes, arguing that the crucial question will be which impact these EANs have on the national implementation and enforcement of EU law.

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“…Importantly, critics have argued that procedures identified as experimentalist often fall short of this standard: in particular, that participation is select or ineffective [39][40][41] and that learning and persuasion are rare [42]. Coercive interpretations of FATF would suggest the same is true of that institution: that function does not follow form.…”

Section: Experimentalist Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Re-thinking FATF: an experimentalist interpretation of the Financial Action Task Force

Nance

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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Most explanations of the Financial Action Task Force argue that material coercion plays a key role in the consolidation and diffusion of the global anti-money laundering regime. This paper looks carefully at the decision-making within FATF and argues that, at its most impactful, FATF operates in line with the principles of Bexperimentalist governance.^Experimentalism emphasizes broad, participatory standard setting, contextualized implementation, intensive but diagnostic monitoring, and routinized updating in light of experience. The paper discusses the differences between the more common understandings of FATF before laying out the principles of experimentalist governance. It outlines the experimentalist form of FATF decision-making. It then provides evidence of experimentalist decision-making in three important aspects of FATF: the evolution of blacklisting; the role of monitoring; and the continuing implementation of the risk-based approach.

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New Modes of Governance and the Participatory Myth

Cited by 98 publications

References 26 publications

Future Scenarios for the European Higher Education Area: Exploring the Possibilities of “Experimentalist Governance”

Future Scenarios for the European Higher Education Area: Exploring the Possibilities of “Experimentalist Governance”

Filling the gap in the European administrative space: the role of administrative networks in EU implementation and enforcement

Re-thinking FATF: an experimentalist interpretation of the Financial Action Task Force

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