Network Deliberations and Policy Transfers in the Development of a European Human Genome Policy

Article rédigé en collaboration avec Isabelle Paré, conseillère à la Fédération des médecins ominipraticiens du Québec.

Résumé de l’article :
International relations scholars often view the EU as an international organization, while comparative politics scholars study it with methods commonly used in the study of nation-states. Increasingly, however, scholars recognize that EU governance has little in common with either an international organization or a nation-state. They argue that European governance, more than other policy development setting, features network deliberation and strong forms of policy transfer. In fact, European governance involves committees of actors who possess direct knowledge of member states’ policy experiences. Consequently, policy deliberation often revolves around member states’ policy successes and failures as well as around potential emulation. This article adds evidence to the argument that European governance differs from policy-making in nation-states and international arenas. The evidence comes from a study of the development of the Human Genome Analysis Programme in the late 1980s.

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