The European Commission And Bureaucratic Autonomy

Author : Antonis A. Ellinas,Professor Ezra Suleiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 1139380451

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The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy by Antonis A. Ellinas,Professor Ezra Suleiman Pdf

This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the 'custodians of Europe'. The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention.

Author : Antonis A. Ellinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 1139372173

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Bureaucratic Autonomy and the European Commission by Antonis A. Ellinas Pdf

"This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the European Union is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the "custodians of Europe." The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention"--

Author : Anchrit Wille
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191643972

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The Normalization of the European Commission by Anchrit Wille Pdf

The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This 'normalization' of the EU executive is due to a series of treaty reforms and internal administrative transformations that were effectuated after the demise of the Santer Commission. Based on a large number of in-depth interviews with commissioners, heads of cabinet, and senior civil servants in the Commission, and on extensive documentary evidence, this study shows how a reinforced regime of political and administrative accountability has profoundly changed the executive relationships between politicians and bureaucrats in the Commission. The book presents a grounded empirical portrait of life at the top in the EU, exposing the Commission's struggle to revive its legitimacy and to turn it into a more transparent, accountable, and efficient organization during the Prodi and Barroso's tenures. Officials and office-holders describe in their own words the imperatives they face and the relationships they maintain, providing readers a rare insight into the day-to-day practices in one of the world's most powerful executives.

Author : Martijn Groenleer
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9789059723467

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The Autonomy of European Union Agencies by Martijn Groenleer Pdf

Author : Antonis A. Ellinas,Ezra Suleiman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107023215

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The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy by Antonis A. Ellinas,Ezra Suleiman Pdf

Documents the struggle of the European Commission to maintain its autonomy in a complex institutional setting and adverse political environment.

Author : Christoph Knill,Michael W. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351972116

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Governance by International Public Administrations by Christoph Knill,Michael W. Bauer Pdf

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organizations are receiving ever more scholarly attention. However, the relevance of International Public Administrations (IPAs) for global policy-making remains neither empirically nor theoretically well understood, and yet little systematic knowledge is available about the influence international bureaucracies may have on policy-making. What makes international bureaucracies influential? Are the sources of their influence on policy-making comparable to that of national public administrations? Is there a need to reflect on other factors than known from the analysis of national bureaucracies or for re-assessing the impact of traditional factors of influence in multilevel constellations? Is there a systematic link between intra-organizational structures and the behavior of the personnel of international bureaucracies and the policy output of their organizations? What are the effects of international bureaucracies’ role for particular policies or policy constellations? The different contributions in this volume address these questions from different conceptual perspectives and focus on different tools of administrative governance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Fabio Franchino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Delegation of powers
ISBN : 0511295448

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The Powers of the Union by Fabio Franchino Pdf

Author : Michael W. Bauer,Christoph Knill,Steffen Eckhard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349949779

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International Bureaucracy by Michael W. Bauer,Christoph Knill,Steffen Eckhard Pdf

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and international administrations and carefully constructs the impact of international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on the challenge of internationalization.

Author : Hendrik Hegemann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474243179

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International Counterterrorism Bureaucracies in the United Nations and the European Union by Hendrik Hegemann Pdf

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 a complex web of international structures and rules for the fight against transnational terrorism has emerged. However, previous research disregarded the organizational basis of counterterrorism cooperation. Using the example of bureaucratic actors in the United Nations and the European Union, this study examines how and to what degree international counterterrorism bureaucracies exercise autonomy and perform distinct functions. The book reveals the special ambivalence of counterterrorism cooperation for international bureaucracies, which need to reconcile calls for effective counterterrorism with the need to maintain an impression of technical impartiality in a particularly contested policy-field. They respond to this challenge with different strategies of politicization and depoliticization.

Author : Jean-Loup Chappelet
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287167206

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Autonomy of Sport in Europe by Jean-Loup Chappelet Pdf

Given the impact that successive court rulings have had on the organisation of the sports movement in the past 15 years, the autonomy of non-governmental sports organisations has become a highly topical concern in Europe. It is also closely related to the issue of governance, the subject of previous Council of Europe studies. The Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) decided to explore the concept of autonomy in greater depth by studying the conceptual, political, legal, economic and psycho-sociological aspects of the subject. This study was carried out at the request of the EPAS by the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) on the basis of a questionnaire sent to public authorities in charge of sport and to national and international umbrella sports organisations. In addition to an analysis of the data obtained, documents produced by public authorities and sports organisations on this emerging issue are presented. This study contributes to a better understanding of the concept of autonomy and offers a clear picture of the issues involved.

Author : Constantin Ardeleanu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004425965

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The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 by Constantin Ardeleanu Pdf

The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.

Author : Fabio Franchino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521866422

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The Powers of the Union by Fabio Franchino Pdf

Analyses the distribution of power in the EU across levels of governance and supranational institutions.

Author : Hendrik Hegemann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474243162

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International Counterterrorism Bureaucracies in the United Nations and the European Union by Hendrik Hegemann Pdf

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 a complex web of international structures and rules for the fight against transnational terrorism has emerged. However, previous research disregarded the organizational basis of counterterrorism cooperation. Using the example of bureaucratic actors in the United Nations and the European Union, this study examines how and to what degree international counterterrorism bureaucracies exercise autonomy and perform distinct functions. The book reveals the special ambivalence of counterterrorism cooperation for international bureaucracies, which need to reconcile calls for effective counterterrorism with the need to maintain an impression of technical impartiality in a particularly contested policy-field. They respond to this challenge with different strategies of politicization and depoliticization.

Author : M. Bauer,J. Trondal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137339898

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The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System by M. Bauer,J. Trondal Pdf

Drawing on research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional and decision-making theories, this volume examines the emerging bureaucratic framework of the EU and highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the EU's administrative capacities is essential to understand how it shapes European public policy.

Author : Jarle Trondal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199579426

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An Emergent European Executive Order by Jarle Trondal Pdf

The book examines how the European Union profoundly penetrates the domestic branch of executive government. The author explores the accumulated organisational capacities and the every-day decision-making dynamics inside three key institutions: the European Commission, EU-level agencies, and EU committees.