The new modes of governance and political authority in Europe

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This does not rule out coercion as a basis for authority. 2. New public management refers to 'the introduction of a distinctly market-based philosophy in public service production and delivery' (Pierre and Peters Citation2000: 3), especially since the 1980s. It includes as key elements a clear distinction between political goal-setting and administrative managing as well as a focus on outputs and quantifiable performance. 3. See also Banaszak et al. Citation(2003) and their notion of the 'Reconfigured State'. 4. The rules governing the interactions among these institutions have changed substantially over time, so that today the Commission no longer has a monopoly over initiative of legislation. The European Parliament has much more power today as a result of changes in the SEA and the Maastricht Treaty. It plays a key role in legislation (as befits a parliament) as well as in legitimating the Commission. See the special issue of West European Politics on 'Interstitial Institutional Change and the European Union', co-edited by Adrienne Héritier and Henry Farrell, especially the articles by Moury, Rasmussen, and Bergstrom, Farrell and Héritier (forthcoming, West European Politics, Citation2006). 5. See the lucid discussion by Wolfgang Streeck (Citation1996: 68–70). 6. The three articles in this symposium were presented at the conference on 'The Impact of Europeanization on Politics and Policy in Europe', in Toronto, 7–9 May 2004. The conference was mainly sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto. Joerg Wittenbrinck would like to thank co-organizers Essyn Emurla and Petr Kafka.