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.