The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance

As the traditional mode of coordinating--essentially issuing regulation--no longer commands sufficient political support, the EU has turned to what are increasingly termed soft or 'new' modes of governance, which rely upon different actors working together in relatively non-hierarchical networks. This analysis provides the first book-length account of how effective network-based modes are at addressing problems that simultaneously demand greater levels of horizontal and vertical coordination.