TY - CHAP A1 - Dawson, Mark ED - Patterson, Dennis ED - Södersten, Anna T1 - New Modes of Governance T2 - A Companion to European Union Law and International Law N2 - This chapter approaches new modes of governance (NMG) with the task of clarity in mind. Its essential function will be first to map the dominant conceptions of NMG that frame existing institutional and academic discourse. Second function is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of NMG as an alternative means of delivering European Union (EU) law and policy, and finally to consider the future prospects of NMG in a political context that both challenges and reinforces their institutional relevance. The chapter also explores that the greatest obstacle to the inside view is the resolute failure of many NMG processes to display the features of bottom-up and experimental rule which theorists like Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin attribute to them. Experimentalism's attractive normative conceptualization of NMG may be of limited use given its failure to describe adequately how new governance processes operate. KW - Academic discourse KW - Charles Sabel KW - European Union law KW - Institutional development KW - Jonathan Zeitlin KW - New modes of governance Y1 - 2016 SN - 9780470674390 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119037712.ch9 SP - 119 EP - 135 PB - John Wiley & Sons CY - Chichester ER -