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This collection presents the results of a research agenda which examines how information plays a key role in policymaking. As a very dynamic environment characterized by many different modes of information gathering and processing, the EU forms a particularly interesting case to test the politics of information approach.

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1. The Politics of Information: A New Research Agenda; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND HISTROICAL REFLECTIONS 2. The Politics of Information: An Organization Theoretical Perspective; Tannelie Blom 3 Information Processes and International Organisations (1910-1940); Michael Geary and Nico Randeraad 4 The Politics of Peer Reviewing: Comparing the OECD and the EU; Thomas Conzelmann PART II: INSTITUTIONS 5. COREPER: Linking Capitals and Brussels; Jeffrey Lewis 6. Who Selects What and How? How the European Parliament Obtains and Processes Information for Policy-Making; Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold 7. The Politics of Information in the EU: The Case of European Agencies; Tannelie Blom, Loes van Suijlekom, Esther Versluis and Martin Wirtz PART III: INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 8. The European Commission´s Relations with Interest Organisations: Master of the Information Universe?; Justin Greenwood 9. The European Commission´s Expert Groups as an Information System; Ase Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 10. Informational Asymmetries in the EU: Fault Lines Running Through the Comitology System; Thomas Christiansen 11. Information, Expertise and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organizations in Historical Perspective; Carine Germond PART IV: INFORMING THE PUBLIC 12. The Commission, the Politics of Information and the European Public Sphere; Patrick Bijsmans 13. The European Parliament ´On Air´; Michael Shackleton PART V: INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY 14. EU Foreign Policy and the Politics of Information; Federica Bicchi 15. Information in EU Security and Defence; Hylke Dijkstra 16. Intelligence and EU External Relations: Operational to Constitutive Politics; Simon Duke 17. The Politics of Information in EU Internal Security: Information Sharing by European Agencies; Madalina Busuioc and Deirdre Curtin 18. Conclusion; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker

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"This edited volume seeks to open up the black box of policy-making in the EU ... through a ´politics of information´ approach, investigating how information is accessed and processed, and how it affects policy. ... The main contribution is the book´s detailed and insightful case studies. ... the book is a must-read for everyone interested in opening the black box of EU policy-making." (Johan Eriksson, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (1), 2016)

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