comitology
Meanings
noun
- The system of committees, composed of representatives of the member states, used to oversee European Commission implementing acts made under European Union legislation.
- The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
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Etymology
From committee + -ology, introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in humorous essays published in The Economist.
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