Common Goods: Reinventing European Integration Governance

by Adrienne Héritier

As European countries become more interdependent, the provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, levels of government, and sectors. In addition, former adversaries in the public and private sectors must learn to collaborate rather than compete. These changing paradigms call for new institutional and instrumental arrangements that move beyond existing modes of national governance. Offering a unique focus on the emerging role of private actors, this volume explores the evolving challenge of governing common goods in an increasingly transnational environment.

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 21, 2002

About the author

Adrienne Heritier holds a joint chair of political science at the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. She has previously been a Director of the Max Planck Project Group (now Max Planck Institute) for Common Goods in Bonn, Germany. Her main areas of research are comparative public policy making, regulation, Europeanization, institutional theory and new modes of governance.