Everything about Intergovernmentalism totally explained
The term
Intergovernmentalism can mean different things:
A decision-making method
Usually intergovernmentalism refers to the decision-making methods in
international organisations, where power is possessed by the member
states and decisions are often but not always made by
unanimity. Independent
appointees of the
governments or elected representatives have solely advisory or implementational functions. Intergovernmentalism is used by most international organizations today.
An anomaly exists with the
Bundesrat of Germany, the upper house in the German federal system,where the seats are held by the governments of the landers.Thus intergovernmentalism doesn't conflict with federalism.
The opposite method of decision-making in political communities is
supranationalism.
The theory is applied on European integration which rejects the idea of
neofunctionalism. The theory, initially proposed by
Stanley Hoffmann suggests that national governments control the level and speed of
European integration. Any increase in power at supranational level, he argues, results from a direct decision by governments. He believed that integration, driven by national governments, was often based on the domestic political and economic issues of the day. The theory rejects the concept of the spill-over effect that neofunctionalism proposes. He also rejects the idea that supranational organisations are on an equal level (in terms of political influence) as national governments.
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