‘Deliberative Political Processes’ Revisited: What Have we Learnt About the Legitimacy of Supranational Decision-Making

Abstract

The `comitology mode' of decision-making can be interpreted as a response to the non-unitary and non-hierarchical (`heterarchical') nature of the EU. It is of exemplary importance since it represents an institutionalized sui generis response to the regulatory needs of the `multilevel system of governance sui generis' that characterizes Europe's political economy.