Presents the most informative and comprehensive analysis of commitology currently available.

Thomas Christiansen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Emil Kirchner is Jean Monnet Professor of European Political Integration at the University of Essex

1. Theoretical perspectives on administrative interaction in the European Union - Andreas Maurer, Jurgen Mittag and Wolfgang Wessels
2. A cross-sectoral view of comitology: incidence, issues and implications - Rhys Dorgan
3. Parliamentary oversight of executive power: what role for the European parliament in comitology - Simon Hix
4. Postcards from the edge of integration? The role of committees in EU environmental policy-making - Brendan Flynn
5. In the maelstrom of change: the Article 113 Committee in the governance of external economic policy - Anna Murphy
6. The Committee on Spatial Development: formulating a spatial perspective in an institutional vacuum - Andreas Faludi, Wil Zonneveld and Bas Waterhout
7. Governing by committee - the case of monetary policy - Amy Verdun
8. Committees in common: committee governance and CFSP - Ben Tonra
9. Government by committee - three principles of evaluation - Albert Weale