The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators,9780714684451

The Unseen Hand: Unelected EU Legislators

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780714684451
ISBN10: 0714684457
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2004-02-17
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Who is really making EU laws and regulations? Formally, and according to most popular accounts, responsibility lies with European politicians who are directly elected (MEPs) or indirectly accountable to elected bodies at the European or national level (council). In practice, however, as this book shows, things can be very different. The real makers of European legislation and rules are frequently unelected and far from the public gaze. This book describes and evaluates the role of many such unseen lawmakers, including commission officials, experts from national governments and companies, lobbyists, secretaries of the council and others.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Rinus van Schendelen and Roger Scully
1(13)
The European Commission: An Unelected Legislator?
Michelle Cini
14(13)
The In-Sourced Experts
Rinus van Schendelen
27(13)
Elected Legislators and their Unelected Assistants in the European Parliament
Karlheinz Neunreither
40(21)
No Simple Dichotomies: Lobbyists and the European Parliament
David Earnshaw and David Judge
61(19)
Out of the Shadows: The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers
Thomas Christiansen
80(18)
Social Pluralism and the European Court of Justice: A Court Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Michelle Everson
98(19)
Conclusions
Roger Scully and Rinus van Schendelen
117(8)
Abstracts 125(4)
Index 129

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