Henry Farrell

Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU – with Abraham Newman

Political leaders in Europe have not been shy in expressing their anger about recent revelations about the United States spying on the EU. Germany’s justice minister has said that the United States’ expansive spying programs — the United States is alleged to have spied not only on the electronic communications of European citizens, but on the EU embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Brussels headquarters of the European Council, where European states make the key decisions that guide European politics — remind of “the methods of our foes during the Cold War.” France’s justice minister has described

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Senseless Spying: The National Security Agency’s Self-Defeating Espionage Against the EU,” Foreign Affairs (2013, website only).

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Interorganizational Cooperation and Intraorganizational Power: Early Agreements under Codecision and Their Impact on the Parliament and the Council – with Adrienne Hèritier

December 9, 2004 Comparative Political Studies 37 with Adrienne Hèritier
The authors argue that closer attention should be paid to the interorganizational rules of decision making and their implications for intraorganizational processes. They claim that exogenous changes in macro-institutional rules, which result in a move from formal and sequential to informal and simultaneous interaction between collective actors, will lead to changes in individual actors’ respective ...
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Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Cognitive Democracy,” in Youth, New Media and Political Participation – with Cosma Shalizi – eds. Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light

June 19, 2015 Chicago University Press: 2015 eds. Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light with Cosma Shalizi
In Parts I through III, we extended the definition of the political, acquired a richer view of participation, explored how to model and analyze partic-ipation broadly defined, and ascertained what sort of mechanisms to look for to understand public spheres in this context. As those chapters explored the specific experiences of individuals partic-ipating in hip ...
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