A genealogy of EU discourses and practices of deliberative governance: Beyond states and markets?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Parker, Owen
• 署名单位: University of Sheffield
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12558
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 741-753
• 关键词: EUROPEAN-UNION; governmentality; COORDINATION; legitimacy; DEMOCRACY; Habermas

摘要

The article offers a genealogy of 'deliberative governance' in the EU-an important contemporary discourse and practice of 'throughput legitimacy' within that setting. It focuses on three key episodes: the late 1990s 'Governance' reports of the European Commission's in-house think-tank, the Forward Studies Unit (FSU); the Commission's 2001 White Paper on Governance; and the EU's 'Open Method of Coordination', which emerged in the 1990s and was widely studied in the early and mid-2000s. The genealogy serves to highlight the particular intellectual lineages and political contingencies associated with such a discourse and in so doing points to its exclusive potential in both theory and practice. In particular, the article argues that it excludes, on the one hand, those championing the enduring sociological and normative importance of the nation state and an associated representative majoritarianism and, on the other hand, those (excessively) critical of a functionalist, neoliberal, market-making status quo.