IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-37278-8_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Networks and Networking in the European Union

In: Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union

Author

Listed:
  • Robert Leonardi

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract

The impact of integration and convergence on the EU’s institutional architecture has been significant in the aftermath of the Single Market and the Maastricht Treaty. Starting in 1987 the EC needed to manage the new market within a greater European-wide rather than a national context. The implementation of the Single European Act witnessed a steady movement of decision making in crucial economic and social policy sectors to the European level in the search for rationalisation, scale and efficiency to compete on a world scale (Hufbauer, 1990). These changes in the structure of decision making and the new terms of reference for the economies of member states have stimulated the need to rethink the structure and nature of European policy-making institutions so that the pursuit of economic and social objectives can remain grounded on the foundations of representative government (that is, policymaking organs are subject to scrutiny by representatives directly elected by the people) and law (the legal foundations for the organs making decisions must be grounded in Treaty provisions or regulations passed by the Council).

Suggested Citation

  • Robert Leonardi, 1995. "Networks and Networking in the European Union," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union, chapter 8, pages 217-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37278-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230372788_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37278-8_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.