Transforming strategic interaction into deliberative problem-solving: European comiyology in the foodstuffs sector Christian Joerges and Juergen Neyer

Transforming strategic interaction into deliberative problem-solving: European comiyology in the foodstuffs sector Christian Joerges and Juergen Neyer The central argument of the contribution is that core institutional features of the European Community (EC) should be read as supranational versions of deliberationist ideals. Introduction: Deliberative model of democracy: 1.securing legitimacy 2.economic welfare 3.a viable sense of collective identity Joerges and Neyer therefore by no means suggest that the deliberative model of legitimate governance could be simply "…

…foreseen by the EC Treaty; it neither resembles the interpretation of the EC system as a supranational legal order nor that of a mere association of nation states 2.instead the empirical evidence reveals the emergence of governance structures which can no longer be attributed to either nation states or a supranational state-like entity 3.Comitology is indicative of a reorientation of European regulation away from hierarchical policy formulation; the new emphasis is on development of co-ordination