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Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU. Member State and Commission actors together create roughly 2,500 executive acts per year amounting to half of all European laws. Using new European and national data, this books argues that its accountability has improved over time, but that unexpected gaps have emerged.

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List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Hidden Power 2. Comitology: The System, the Committees and their Participants 3. Accountability and Multi-Level Governance 4. System Level Accountability: Conflict over Control 5. Committee Level Accountability: System meets Practice 6. Participant Level Accountability: Substantive Talks and Deafening Silence 7. Comitology and Multi-Level Accountability Notes Literature Index

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Gijs Jan Brandsma is Assistant Professor at the School of Governance at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His articles have appeared in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, European Law Journal, Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and others.

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