Politics of Information: The Case of the European Union

by Tannelie Blom (Editor), Sophie Vanhoonacker (Editor)

1. The Politics of A New Research Agenda; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART CONCEPTUAL AND HISTROICAL REFLECTIONS 2. The Politics of An Organization Theoretical Perspective; Tannelie Blom 3 Information Processes and International Organisations (1910-1940); Michael Geary and Nico Randeraad 4 The Politics of Peer Comparing the OECD and the EU; Thomas Conzelmann PART INSTITUTIONS 5. Linking Capitals and Brussels; Jeffrey Lewis 6. Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making; Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold 7. The Politics of Information in the The Case of European Agencies; Tannelie Blom, Loes van Suijlekom, Esther Versluis and Martin Wirtz PART INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 8. The European Commission's Relations with Interest Master of the Information Universe?; Justin Greenwood 9. The European Commission's Expert Groups as an Information System; Ase Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 10. Informational Asymmetries in the Fault Lines Running Through the Comitology System; Thomas Christiansen 11. Information, Expertise and the Common Agricultural The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective; Carine Germond PART INFORMING THE PUBLIC 12. The Commission, the Politics of Information and the European Public Sphere; Patrick Bijsmans 13. The European Parliament 'On Air'; Michael Shackleton PART INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY 14. EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information; Federica Bicchi 15. Information in EU Security and Defence; Hylke Dijkstra 16. Intelligence and EU External Operational to Constitutive Politics; Simon Duke 17. The Politics of Information in EU Internal Information Sharing by European Agencies; Madalina Busuioc and Deirdre Curtin 18. Conclusion; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker

349 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2014