Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing the Problématique of Law and New Governance: From Phronesis to Compromise -- Phronesis -- Elements of a Theory of Law Making -- Law Making and New Governance -- Conclusions -- 2 Economy, Polity, and the European Experience -- Innovation, Economy, and Society -- Innovation: Modern Theoretical Paradigms -- The Story of the European Union: Market Integration and the European Commission -- The Democratic Deficit and the European Demos -- Conclusions -- 3 The European Commission and the Law Making Process: Compromise as a Category of Praxis -- Schemas as Social Constructs -- Inside the European Commission: Rules of Interaction -- Compromise and Law Making Inside the European Commission -- Conclusions -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- 4 Procedural Rationality, Power, and the Bureaucratic Mode of Thinking -- Proceduralization, Decentralization, and Internet Regulation -- Power, Capital, and the Interests of the European Administration -- Law, Code, and Internet Regulation -- Scarce Resources: Domain Name Allocation -- Establishing the Difference between the Joint Partnership Model and the Self-Regulation Model -- The Internet Action Plan and Soft Law: Setting the Vocabulary of the Debate -- Conclusions -- 5 Ruptures in Established Practice -- The Proposal for a Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions: The Consultation -- Patterns of Thinking about Intellectual Property: The European Commission -- Framing with Legal Language -- The Juridico-Administrative Rationality -- Divergent Voices and Phronetic Ruptures -- Conclusions -- 6 Elements of a Theory of Law Making in the European Union -- Law, the Proceduralist Paradigm, and People's Democratic Common Sense -- Power and Context: The Regulation of Everyday Activities.

The Force of Law and Participation -- Is Dialogue Possible? From Consensus and Bargaining to Compromise -- Compromise and Law Making -- Compromise and Power -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.