The Politics of Information The Case of the European Union [Hardcover]

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.1. The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTROICAL REFLECTIONS 2. The Politics of Information: An Organization Theoretical Perspective; Tannelie Blom 3 Information Processes and International Organisations (1910-1940); Michael Geary and Nico Randeraad 4 The Politics of Peer Reviewing: Comparing the OECD and the EU; Thomas Conzelmann PART II: INSTITUTIONS 5. COREPER: Linking Capitals and Brussels; Jeffrey Lewis 6. Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making; Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold 7. The Politics of Information in the EU: The Case of European Agencies; Tannelie Blom, Loes van Suijlekom, Esther Versluis and Martin Wirtz PART III: INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 8. The European Commission's Relations with Interest Organisations: Master of the Information Universe?; Justin Greenwood 9. The European Commission's Expert Groups as an Information System; Ase Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 10. Informational Asymmetries in the EU: Fault Lines Running Through the Comitology System; Thomas Christiansen 11. Information, Expertise and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective; Carine Germond PART IV: INFORMING THE PUBLIC 12. The Commission, the Politics of Information and the European Public Sphere; Patrick Bijsmans 13. The European Parliament 'On Air'; Michael Shackleton PART V: INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY 14. EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information; Federica Bicchi 15. Information in EU Security and Defence; Hylke Dijl6