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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Law and New Governance in the EU and the US by Edited by Grainne De Burca Edited by Joanne Scott
New approaches to governance have attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have identified charted and evaluated the rise and spread of forms of governance forms which seem to differ from previous regulatory and legal paradigms. In Europe the emergence of the Open Method of Coordination has provided a focal point for new governance studies. In the US scholarship on issues such as collaborative problem-solving democratic experimentalism and problem-solving courts exemplify the interest in similar developments. This book covers diverse policy sectors and subjects including the environment education anti-discrimination food safety and many others. While some chapters concentrate on the operation of new governance mechanisms in a federal and multilevel context and others look at the relationship between public and private mechanisms and settings what all the contributors share in common is the pursuit of effective mechanisms for addressing complex social problems and the challenges they raise for our understanding of law and constitutionalism and of legal and constitutional values.show more