Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within—and increasingly beyond—its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy domains. In this architecture, framework goals and measures for gauging their achievement are established by joint action of the Member States and EU institutions. Lower-level units are given t…