Abstract

BURNS, Tom R.  and  CARSON, Marcus. Configurações de governança pluralistas, neocorporativas e da União Europeia: padrões de elaboração de políticas e de acção dos lóbis numa perspectiva comparada. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2003, n.42, pp.161-197. ISSN 0873-6529.

This paper applies the new institutionalism to the comparative analysis of governance and policy-making in different political systems. Pluralist, neo-corporatist and European Union interest articulation and policymaking arrangements are distinguished and contrasted. The article considers the degree of openness, flexibility, extent of predictability, and patterns of policy production and development in the different systems. It concludes that many of the advantages of the EU system with its flexibility and adaptability to sectoral specific issues and conditions are also a source of its problems of non-transparency and democratic deficit.

Keywords : New institutionalism; governance; lobbying; European Union.

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