1st Edition

Learning and Governance in the EU Policy Making Process

Edited By Anthony Zito Copyright 2010
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book takes stock of learning theories in the European Union (EU) integration literature and assesses what insights the concept of ‘learning’ has added to our understanding of the European integration processes. Given the European integration dynamics since 2000 (including enlargement and new governance approaches and instruments), learning and learning-related theories have gained major... Read more

Learning theory reconsidered: EU integration theories and learning

Anthony Zito (Newcastle University) and Adriaan Schout (Clingendael Institute)

Organisational learning in the EU’s multilevel governance system

Adriaan Schout (Clingendael Institute)

Measuring policy learning across Europe: regulatory impact assessment in comparative perspective

Claudio Radaelli (University of Exeter)

EU policy towards other regions: Policy learning in the external promotion of regional integration

Mary Farrell (University of Greenwich)

Governance and policy learning in the European Union: a comparison with North America

Éric Montpetit (Université de Montréal)

The power of institutionalized learning: the uses and practices of commissions to generate policy change

Patrik Marier (Concordia University)

European agencies as agents of governance and EU learning

Anthony Zito (Newcastle University)

Governance and learning in the post-Maastricht era?

Michelle Egan (SIS American University)

Biography

Anthony R. Zito is Reader in Politics at Newcastle University and is currently Politics Research Director and Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre at Newcastle University. His broad research interests focus on the European Union decision-making process, policy-making processes and expert networks. Dr. Zito was a 2007 Leverhulme Fellow, conducting a comparative analysis of EU and United States environmental agencies. He has authored Creating Environmental Policy in the European Union (Palgrave 2000) and articles in Political Studies, Public Administration, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy and other journals, focusing on the EU policy process and environmental actors and policy-making.