Changing Rules of Delegation shows how institutional rules are constantly re-negotiated and may lead to a power-shift between the concerned actors. It particularly shows how the European Parliament has been able to shift the power balance in its own favour.

Introduction ; 1. European Legislation and Comitology: The Development of the Comitology System ; 2. Theory and Hypotheses ; 3. Changing the Rules of Comitology: More Competences for the Parliament ; 4. Delegation Under the Lisbon Treaty ; 5. Patterns and Trends In European Legislation and Delegation ; 6. The Impact of Codecision on Comitology ; 7. The Impact of the 1999 Comitology Decision ; 8. Conclusion ; References ; Appendix 1 The Data: Sources And Classification ; Appendix 2 Directory Codes ; Appendix 3 The Number of Laws Adopted In Policy Areas Per 5 Years ; Appendix 4 The Average Number of Laws In Force In Policy Area Per 5 Years ; Appendix 5 Directives and Regulations by Author Institution and Legal Basis

The authors present a comprehensive and theoretically consistent argument about the power-related origins and consequences of institutional rule change, backed up by extensive empirical data. Evelyn Coremans, Political Studies Review an exemplary piece of research ... one of the best texts for those who seek to understand the intricacies behind EU legislation. Neculai-Cristian Surubaru, Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Adrienne Héritier's research and publications extend to theories of institutional change, institutional change in the European Union, comparative public policy, European policy making, Europeanization, regulation, and new modes of governance. Recent relevant publications are Explaining Institutional Change in Europe, Oxford University Press 2007 (With H.Farrell) Contested Competences in Europe: Incomplete Contracts and Interstitial Institutional Change, West European Politics, Special Issue 2007 (with Catherine Moury) Contested Delegation: The Impact of Codecision on Comitology, West European Politics 2011. She holds a Joint Chair of Political Science in the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert-Schuman-Center for Advanced Studies at the at the European University Institute in Florence. Catherine Moury got her PhD in Italy (Siena University, 2005). She is an Advanced Research Fellow at CIES DS IUL and Guest Assistant Professor at Lisbon University Institute and the New University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and on coalition governments. She is the author of Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How Coalition Agreements Constrain Ministerial Action (Routledge, 2012). Carina Bischof concerns herself with a study of delegated legislation in the EU from 1973-2007. The study aims to find reasons for variation in delegated legislation over time and across different fields with the help of principal-agent theory and theories on strategic institutional interaction. She is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Carl Fredrik Bergström has a Degree of from Stockholm University Law School (1994) and Diploma in European Law from University of Birmingham (1993). After expert assignment by the Swedish Bar Association he was employed at Stockholm University Law Faculty combined with admittance to the research student-programme at European University Institute in Florence (1995-2002). He got a Degree of from Stockholm University (2003) and promotion to Docent at Stockholm University (2005). He has worked as a Senior Researcher at SIEPS, the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (2002-2009), and was appointed as Acting/Deputy Director (2005/2009). He is Professor of European Law at Uppsala University (2010-).