The Evolution of Intermediary Institutions in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Poul F. Kjaer

      Pages 1-8

3. The Big Picture: From Corporatism to Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. From Corporatism to Governance: Dimensions of a Theory of Intermediary Institutions

      • Poul F. Kjaer

      Pages 11-28

   3. Corporatism and Beyond? On Governance and Its Limits

      • Bob Jessop

      Pages 29-46

   4. From Neo-Corporatism to Neo-Pluralism: The Liberal Drift of Multi-level Governance

      • Richard Münch

      Pages 47-64

4. Intermediary Institutions in the Transformation of Economic Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Collective Action and the Making of Economic Policy: Intellectual Lineages from the History of Political Economy

      • Alexander Ebner

      Pages 67-80

   3. EU Competition Regulation: A Case of Authoritarian Neo-liberalism?

      • Angela Wigger, Hubert Buch-Hansen

      Pages 81-98

5. Intermediary Institutions in the Re-configuration of Social Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Fabricating Social Europe: From Neo-corporatism to Governance by Numbers

      • Gert Verschraegen

      Pages 101-119

   3. European Social Policy: Social Cohesion through Competition?

      • Eva Hartmann

      Pages 121-137

6. Intermediary Institutions and the Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. The Shadow of the Law: Intermediary Institutions and the Ruling Part of Governance

      • Alfons Bora

      Pages 141-155

   3. Taking Governance to Court: Politics, Economics, and a New Legal Realism

      • Sabine Frerichs

      Pages 157-173

7. Intermediary Institutions and Constitutional Transformations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. The Constitutionalisation of Everyday Life?

      • Grahame F. Thompson

      Pages 177-197

   3. The Democratic Surplus that Constitutionalised the European Union: Establishing Democratic Governance through Intermediate Institutions

      • Gorm Harste

      Pages 199-215

   4. The Crisis of Corporatism and the Rise of International Law

      • Chris Thornhill

      Pages 217-239

8. Back Matter

   Pages 241-277

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This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It does so by combining insights from European Political Economy; European Integration and governance studies; and, socio-legal studies in the European context.

• Intermediary Institutions
• Corporatism
• Neo-corporatism
• Governance
• European Integration
• European Political Economy
• competition
• desegregation
• economic policy
• economy
• European Politic
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• governance
• Institution
• law
• legal studies
• list of abbreviations
• political economy
• social policy

“Scientists working on governance will therefore find food for thought in this book. It can also be used by those who work in a more policy-oriented way because it tends to reduce the vagueness sometimes associated with governance. … This book definitely pulls it off, with each chapter successful in clarifying in its own way the definition of intermediary institutions, in identifying some of their limits, and in setting a future research agenda.” (Anne Guisset, Transfer, Vol. 22 (3), August, 2016)

“Without doubt the strengths of the volume lie in its cross-disciplinary scope and decisive integration of the sociology of law into more traditional discussions of governance and political economy. … Furthermore, and in light of the dramatic evolution of the EU in the last decade … the volume is timely and will be of relevance for a number of debates about the EU. … this book is an important contribution in several key ways and deserves to be widely read.” (Ian Bruff, Capital & Class, Vol. 40 (3), 2016)

"Hartmann and Kjaer have assembled a remarkable set of essays on one of the most profoundly important elements of societal transformation of this century as it affects an often neglected nexus point of law and politics. The contributions provide much needed gap filler, providing valuable insight on those important spaces between the state, the international order, and the social order." Larry Backer, Professor of Law and International Affairs, Penn State University, USA

"This collection of essays is a countermove against the damage which the law of the EU experienced during the financial crisis. Seemingly paradoxically, this rescue operation is undertaken not by lawyers who tend to oscillate between the normalisation of Europe's emergency and voluntaristic propositions. It gains its encouraging strength from the exploration of long-term intra- and inter-societal transformations to which the law has to respond if it is ever to regain ordering legitimacy." Christian Joerges, Professor of Law and Society, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

• Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

  Eva Hartmann, Poul F. Kjaer

Alfons Bora, Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Alexander Ebner, Professor of Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sabine Frerichs, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and adjunct Professor in Sociology of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland Gorm Harste, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Hartmann, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Bob Jessop, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK Poul F. Kjaer, Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Richard Münch, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany Grahame F. Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Open University, UK Chris Thornhill, Professor of Law, University of Manchester, UK Gert Verschraegen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Angela Wigger, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, Political Science Department, Radboud University, Netherlands