Charles F. Sabel was formerly the Ford International Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Learning by Monitoring (2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism (with Michael C. Dorf, 2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (with Archon Fung and Dara O'Rourke, 2001, Beacon Press), Worlds of Possibility (ed. with Jonathan Zeitlin, 1997, Cambridge University Press), Ireland: Local Partnerships and Social Innovation (with the LEED Programme of the OECD, 1996), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (with Michael Piore, 1984, Basics Books), Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (1982, Cambridge University Press). He is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School, a post he has held since 1995.

Jonathan Zeitlin was Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Directed the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and was Founding Director of the European Union Center. He has published extensively on new forms of governance in the European Union, as well as on comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and public policy. He is frequently invited to provide policy advice and present his research on EU governance to European institutions, national governments, think tanks, and NGOs. Among his recent books are Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes (Routledge, 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Business History (OUP, 2007); and The Open Method of Coordination in Action (PIE-Peter Lang, 2005). He is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Contributors


• 1: Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin: Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU


• 2: Abraham Newman: Innovating European Data Privacy Regulation: Unintended Pathways to Experimentalist Governance


• 3: Elliot Posner: The Lamfalussy Process: New Forms of Financial Rulemaking in the EU


• 4: Burkard Eberlein: Experimentalist Governance in the Energy Sector


• 5: Yane Svetiev: Networked Competition Governance in the EU: Centralization, Decentralization, or Experimentalist Architecture?


• 6: Ingmar von Homeyer: Emerging Experimentalism in EU Environmental Governance


• 7: Ellen Vos: Responding to Catastrophe: Towards a New Architecture for EU Food Safety Regulation?


• 8: Patrycja Dabrowska: EU Governance of GMOs: Political Struggles and Experimentalist Solutions?


• 9: Gráinne de Búrca: Stumbling into Experimentalism: The EU Anti-Discrimination Regime


• 10: Jörg Monar: Experimentalist Governance in Justice and Home Affairs


• 11: Olivier De Schutter: The Role of Evaluation in Experimentalist Governance: Learning by Monitoring in the Establishment of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice


• 12: Elsa Tulmets: Experimentalist Governance in EU External Relations: Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy


• Index