What is it about?
This article reviews books that examine how European integration shapes the functioning of governance within the European Union. It analyzes the relationship between integration and institutional performance and asks whether deeper integration disciplines, constrains, or reshapes governance practices. The study explores how functional demands and political integration interact, and whether integration serves to tame governance or instead generates new tensions and complexities.
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Why is it important?
The article speaks to long standing debates about the consequences of European integration beyond formal treaty change. By focusing on governance functions rather than institutional design alone, it sheds light on how integration affects day to day policy making and regulatory practices. The findings help explain variation in EU governance outcomes and contribute to broader discussions about legitimacy, effectiveness, and control in complex political systems.
Perspectives
This article developed through a very positive collaboration with Gianluigi Palombella. Our exchanges helped clarify the core argument and refine the conceptual framing, and the process benefited from bringing together different perspectives on European integration and governance. The collaboration contributed constructively to the development of the article and reinforced the value of collegial scholarly exchange in work on complex institutional questions.
Professor Sara Beth Kahn-Nisser
Open University of Israel
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This page is a summary of: Integration and Function: Taming Governance in the EU?, Transnational Legal Theory, December 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2010.11424524.
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