Shaping EU Policy from Below: EU Democracy and the Committee of the Regions

by Justus Schonlau and Simona Piattoni

This book looks at the way in which the Committee of the Regions (CoR) can influence EU policy making from below, despite its relatively weak position in the decision-making process. Bringing together theoretical arguments about the central role of the formation of judgment in addition to the more conventionally emphasized expression of will, with an up-to-date account of the CoR's institutional development and activities, Simona Piattoni and Justus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783472715
• ISBN13: 9781783472710
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages