dc.contributor.author |
Shore, Crispin |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-02-23T02:01:39Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
European Law Journal 17(3):287-303 Article number 1 2011 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1351-5993 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/11813 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The word ‘governance’ has become an increasingly central policy motif in the European Union and elsewhere yet its meanings are ambiguous and often poorly understood. This article examines the genealogy of that concept focusing in particular on the European Commission's claim to have developed a new, more open and progressive model of ‘European governance’. The paper is set out in four steps. The first analyses the European Commission's claims for ‘governance’ as a concept integral to its new vision for Europe. The second interrogates some of the conflicting definitions and meanings inherent in the term and examines the highly selective paradigm of governance that has been developed in official Commission discourse. The third addresses two specific areas where the Commission's governance model has been applied: the Green paper on The Future of Parliamentary Democracy and the Open Method of Coordination. The fourth turns to analyse these findings using critical social theory. I conclude that far from laying the grounds for a more inclusive, participatory and democratic political order, the Commission's model to governance represents a form of neoliberal governmentality that is actually undermining democratic government and promoting a politics of exclusion. |
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dc.publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
European Law Journal |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1351-5993/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
'European Governance' or Governmentality? The European Commission and the Future of Democratic Government |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1111/j.1468-0386.2011.00551.x |
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pubs.issue |
3 |
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pubs.begin-page |
287 |
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pubs.volume |
17 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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pubs.author-url |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0386.2011.00551.x/abstract |
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pubs.end-page |
303 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
210492 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1468-0386 |
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pubs.number |
1 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2011-12-19 |
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