Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • From harmonization to co-ordination? EU law in the Lisbon governance architecture
    From harmonization to co-ordination? EU law in the Lisbon governance architecture
    in Journal of European Public Policy , Volume 18, Issue 4 2011 ,  2011 ,  504-524
    The debate on the nature of law in the Lisbon Strategy has focused on the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC), which has been defined in opposition to the Community Method, suggesting a shift from hard law to soft law. This contribution goes beyond this 'either-or' debate by analysing Lisbon as a governance architecture, composed of ideational and organizational components, affecting EU law. Although co-ordination is the central organizational device of this architecture, it has multiple meanings and cannot be reduced to the OMC. In the Lisbon Strategy, soft co-ordination is combined with hard law. The ideational and organizational components of Lisbon also have an effect on both the quantity of regulatory output and on the nature of EU law. Yet, the Lisbon governance architecture has only a very modest effect on the case law.
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