Three forms of governance and three forms of power

One of the central characteristics of the European integration process is the emergence of a whole range of different governance structures. Among the most significant ones are regulatory agencies, comitology and the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC). For each of these three forms of governance corresponding theories have been developed. Giandomenico Majone’s theory of the regulatory state focuses on regulatory agencies, Christian Joerges and Jürgen Neyers’ theory of deliberative supranationalism is exploring the comitology phenomenon and Charles Sabel has, in cooperation with a number of other scholars, developed a theory of directly-deliberative polyarchy (DDP) which is aligned with the OMC.