This book develops a bold new interpretation of EU governance as an innovative decision-making architecture well-suited to complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing environments. It brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of European and American scholars to analyze the core theoretical features of the EU's new experimentalist governance architecture and explore its empirical development across a series of key policy domains. The results will berequired reading for all those concerned with the nature of the EU and its contribution to contemporary governance beyond the nation-state.

Charles F. Sabel is Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His publications include Learning by Monitoring, A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism, Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry, and more.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and 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, The Oxford Handbook of Business History (OUP, 2007), and The Open Method of Coordination in Action.