Henry Farrell

The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy, Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change eds. Catherine Moury and Luis de Sousa – with Adrienne Hèritier

The relationship between Council and Parliament within the codecision procedure involves a plethora of informal and semi-formal meetings in which many of the real decisions about legislation are taken, with little scope for public oversight. In the light of the current debate on the future of European Union, the report will address the question what this informalization of the decision-making process means for the legitimacy of the legislative process. The report was presented at the seminar Striking the Institutional Balance? and is a part of the research project Strategy 2004. 2003:7 The Invisible Transformation of Codecision: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy

Henry Farrell and Adrienne Hèritier, “The Invisible Transformation of the Co-decision Procedure: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy,” Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe: Governing Change eds. Catherine Moury and Luis de Sousa (Routledge: 2009).

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Academic Article

Making Global Markets: Historical Institutionalism in International Political Economy, Introduction to Special Issue on Historical Institutionalism and International Market Regulation – with Abraham Newman

October 9, 2010 Review of International Political Economy with Abraham Newman
As dramatically evidenced by the global financial crisis, the interaction of domestic regulatory systems has significant international consequences. Nevertheless, these relationships have received only limited attention from international relations scholars. This special issue, therefore, provides a de- tailed examination of international market regulation – the processes through which the domestic regulatory activities of states and ...
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Essay

Behold the AI shoggoth – with Cosma Shalizi

June 21, 2023 machine learning as social information processing The Economist
Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster The academics argue that large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies An internet meme keeps on turning up in debates about the large language models (llms) that power services such Openai’s Chatgptand the newest version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It’s the “shoggoth”: an amorphous monster ...
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