The Politics of Information: The Case of the European Union

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Politics of Information: An Organization-Theoretical Perspective....Pages 17-33
Information Processes and International Organizations (1910–1940)....Pages 34-48
The Politics of Peer Reviewing: Comparing the OECD and the EU....Pages 49-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
COREPER: Linking Capitals and Brussels....Pages 65-77
Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making....Pages 78-92
The Politics of Information in the EU: The Case of European Agencies....Pages 93-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
The European Commission’s Relations with Interest Organizations: Master of the Information Universe?....Pages 111-126
The European Commission’s Expert Groups as an Information System....Pages 127-145
Informational Asymmetries in the EU: Fault Lines Running through the Comitology System....Pages 146-160
Information, Expertise, and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective....Pages 161-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
The Commission, the Politics of Information, and the European Public Sphere....Pages 179-192
The European Parliament ‘On Air’....Pages 193-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information....Pages 211-228
Information in EU Security and Defence....Pages 229-241
Intelligence and EU External Relations: Operational to Constitutive Politics....Pages 242-259
The Politics of Information in EU Internal Security: Information-Sharing by European Agencies....Pages 260-276
Conclusion....Pages 277-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-326