"Multi-level governance: With or without the state? The changing governance of technical standardization in Europe"

Bundgaard-Pedersen, Torben. (1997) "Multi-level governance: With or without the state? The changing governance of technical standardization in Europe". In European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 1997 (5th), May 29-June 1, 1997, pages 39, Seattle, WA.

Abstract

The literature on multi-level policy making and governance in the European Union (EU) displays many apparently contradictory processes. This examination of the changing governance of technical standardization in Europe and in Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, over time, and across issue-areas, using a comparative policy and institutional approach, shows that all of these processes are part of contemporary social life in the EU. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of European integration on national arrangements of technical standardization which raise further doubts about the capacity of states and of state actors to pursue goals and shape societal structures that can possibly promote their future development and legitimacy.