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Fligstein and Alec Stone-Sweet
CCOP Working Paper #2000-05
January, 2000
With the Treaty of Rome, European states designed
a set of policy domains related to trade and the regulation of markets,
a complex of governmental organisations, and a binding set of substantive
and procedural rules to help them achieve the construction of a
European Economic Community (Fligstein and McNichol, 1998). Although
the Treaty traced the broad outlines of this new Community, it was
the purposeful activities of representatives of national governments
(Moravcsik 1999), of officials operating in the EC's organisations,
like the Commission (Pollack 1998) and the Court (Burley and Mattli
1993; Stone Sweet and Caporaso 1998a; Weiler 1991, 1994), and of
leaders of transnational interest groups (Mazey and Richardson,
eds., 1993) that subsequently produced the extraordinarily dense
web of political and social networks that now functions to generate
and sustain supranational governance (Wallace and Young 1998; Héritier
1999; Sandholtz and Stone Sweet, eds., 1998).
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