The Politics of Information

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda

   1. The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda

      • Tannelie Blom, Sophie Vanhoonacker

      Pages 1-14

3. Conceptual and Historical Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Politics of Information: An Organization-Theoretical Perspective

      • Tannelie Blom

      Pages 17-33

   3. Information Processes and International Organizations (1910–1940)

      • Michael Geary, Nico Randeraad

      Pages 34-48

   4. The Politics of Peer Reviewing: Comparing the OECD and the EU

      • Thomas Conzelmann

      Pages 49-62

4. Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. COREPER: Linking Capitals and Brussels

      • Jeffrey Lewis

      Pages 65-77

   3. Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making

      • Mathias Dobbels, Christine Neuhold

      Pages 78-92

   4. The Politics of Information in the EU: The Case of European Agencies

      • Tannelie Blom, Loes van Suijlekom, Esther Versluis, Martin Wirtz

      Pages 93-108

5. Interests and Expertise

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The European Commission’s Relations with Interest Organizations: Master of the Information Universe?

      • Justin Greenwood

      Pages 111-126

   3. The European Commission’s Expert Groups as an Information System

      • Åse Gornitzka, Ulf Sverdrup

      Pages 127-145

   4. Informational Asymmetries in the EU: Fault Lines Running through the Comitology System

      • Thomas Christiansen

      Pages 146-160

   5. Information, Expertise, and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective

      • Carine Germond

      Pages 161-176

6. Informing the Public

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. The Commission, the Politics of Information, and the European Public Sphere

      • Patrick Bijsmans

      Pages 179-192

   3. The European Parliament ‘On Air’

      • Michael Shackleton

      Pages 193-207

7. Information in the Fields of Foreign Policy and Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information

      • Federica Bicchi

      Pages 211-228

This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environment characterized by many different modes of information gathering and processing, the EU forms a particularly interesting case to test the politics of information approach.

• cultural policy
• EU External relations
• European Commission
• European Parliament
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• foreign policy
• Institution
• OECD
• parliament
• Policy
• policy-making
• policymaking
• politics
• european union politics
• democracy

“This edited volume seeks to open up the black box of policy-making in the EU … through a ‘politics of information’ approach, investigating how information is accessed and processed, and how it affects policy. … The main contribution is the book’s detailed and insightful case studies. … the book is a must-read for everyone interested in opening the black box of EU policy-making.” (Johan Eriksson, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (1), 2016)

• Department of Political Science, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

  Tannelie Blom, Sophie Vanhoonacker

Federica Bicchi, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Patrick BijsmansMaastricht University, the Netherlands Madalina Busuioc, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Thomas Christiansen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Thomas Conzelmann, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Deirdre Curtin,University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Hylke Dijkstra, Maastricht University, the Netherlands and University of Oxford, UK Mathias Dobbels, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Simon Duke, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Michael J. Geary, Maastricht University, the Netherlnds and Wilson Center, USA Carine Germond, University of Portsmouth, UK and Maastricht University, the Netherlands Justin Greenwood is Professor of European Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, UK Åse Gornitzka, University of Oslo, Norway Jeffrey Lewis, Cleveland State University, USA Christine Neuhold Maastricht University, the Netherlands Nico Randeraad,MaastrichtUniversity, the Netherlands Michael Shackleton, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands Loes van Suijlekom is a Junior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Ulf Sverdrup is Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Esther Versluis, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Martin Wirtz, Otto-Friedrich University, Germany

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