Think tank europe

European Union transgovernmental networks: The emergence of a new political space beyond the nation-state?
17/08/2009
Author : Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES - Germany)
By Paul W. Thurner and Martin Binder
 
Does the European Union (EU) represent a new political order replacing the old nation-states?

The assessment of the real character of political orders requires the identification of political key actors and of the specific structure of their interactions.Transgovernmental networks have been considered to be one of the most important features of EU integration.

Unfortunately, the network structures, processes and the impact of these informal horizontal inter-organisational relations between nation-states are mostly unknown.

The main objective of this article is to measure and explain the selective pattern of informal bilateral relations of high officials of the EU Member States’ ministerial bureaucracies on the occasion of an EU Intergovernmental Conference. The quantitative data used rely on standardised interviews with 140 top-level bureaucrats. The statistical estimation of network choices is based on recent developments of exponential random graph models.

Download
 
Keyword search
 
Report inappropriate content
You need to be logged in to rate and comment on articles.
Click the log in or register button in the top right corner of this page.
Average rating:
Add rating
 
Back to ArticleList
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Europe's World - AUTUMN 2011 - #19
The Spring 2013 issue of Europe's World is out!

We feel it's fair to say that few if any publications in the field of international relations and policy debate have grown as fast or widened their scope so remarkably as Europe's World.

Our 100,000 readers worldwide are drawn from politics, government, business, the media, universities and NGOs.
 
Advertisement




Vox Pop - Have your say...
WHAT IS THE EU’S ROLE IN AN INCREASINGLY POLARISED WORLD??
 


What do YOU think?
Please leave your comments at the end of the article 

 

le plus populaire du journal
le plus populaire de communité
le plus populaire des partenaires
Logon