Objectives
This ITN aims to make a fundamental contribution to the understanding of institutional design and change as well as institutional effects by moving away from a focus just on formalized decision-making fora and procedures, and asking instead how less formal, cooperative forms and modes of decision- and policy-making.
Against this background the aims of the ITN are the following:
Training objectives:
- to instil researchers with a sound knowledge of quantitative and qualitative Research Methods and to get them acquaint to interdisciplinary research
- to provide researchers with insights into Theories and Concepts of institutional cooperation
- to equip young researchers with practical Skills that prepare them for the job market
Research objectives:
- to develop and arrive at theory-based explanations of the impact of institutional cooperation on policy-making in the widest sense
- to collect a rich pool of empirical data and produce comparative evidence on conditions for and effects of cooperative governance in the EU
- to derive comprehensive and comparative explanations of cooperation by adopting an inter-disciplinary approach