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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THINK TANKS IN THE EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THINK TANKS IN THE EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE

Author(s): Rosetta Collura, Pierre Vercauteren
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Think tanks; European governance; policy networks; power dependence; knowledge.

Summary/Abstract: The complex nature of the European Union has mainly been theorized through the governance process. In a global perspective, the concept of governance refers to an interdependence between state and non-state actors. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical perspectives about actions of think tanks in a governance process. It shall be focused on think tanks, analyzed as knowledge organizations. Therefore this article shall investigate the strategies developed by think tanks in order to create a power dependency in the European governance.

  • Issue Year: 62/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-53
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: English