The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System

  • Michael W. Bauer
  • Jarle Trondal
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Part of the European Administrative Governance book series (EAGOV)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Administrative System of the European Union

    1. The Administrative System of the European Union
      Michael W. Bauer, Jarle Trondal
      Pages 1-28

  3. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 29-29
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    2. European Public Administration as a Multilevel Administration: A Conceptual Framework
      Arthur Benz
      Pages 31-47
    3. The Two Logics of Multilevel Administration in the EU
      Edgar Grande, Martina McCowan
      Pages 48-65
    4. EU Administration: Center Formation and Multilevelness
      Morten Egeberg
      Pages 66-78
    5. A Conceptual Account of the European Administrative Space
      Jarle Trondal, B. Guy Peters
      Pages 79-92
    6. Administrative Styles of EU Institutions
      Christoph Knill, Stephan Grohs
      Pages 93-107
    7. Administrative Reforms in the European Commission and the Neo-Weberian Model
      Edoardo Ongaro
      Pages 108-123

  4. EU’s Executive Administration

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 125-125
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    2. The European Commission — Politics and Administration
      Michelle Cini
      Pages 127-144
    3. Politicization of the European Commission: When, How, and with What Impact?
      Miriam Hartlapp
      Pages 145-160
    4. The Permanent Commission Bureaucrat
      Sara Connolly, Hussein Kassim
      Pages 161-187
    5. The Temporary Commission Bureaucrat
      Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal
      Pages 188-207
    6. The European External Action Service (EEAS), the New Kid on the Block
      Tannelie Blom, Sophie Vanhoonacker
      Pages 208-223

  5. EU’s Parliament Administration

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 225-225
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    2. The European Parliament Administration: Organizational Structure and Behavioral Implications
      Morten Egeberg, Åse Gornitzka, Jarle Trondal, Mathias Johannessen
      Pages 227-245
    3. Officials ‘Pre-Cooking’ EU Affairs? The Role of EP Officials in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP)
      Mathias Dobbels, Christine Neuhold
      Pages 246-262

  6. EU’s ‘Intergovernmental’ Administration

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 263-263
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    2. The EU Council(s) System and Administrative Fusion
      Wolfgang Wessels, Peter Valant, Tobias Kunstein
      Pages 265-280

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Bruno Bauer EU administration EU Institutions European Commission European Union European Union (EU) executive Government Institution parliament Policy politics public administration reforms Wolfgang Wessels

Editors and affiliations

  • Michael W. Bauer
    • 1
  • Jarle Trondal
    • 2
    • 3
  1. 1.German University of Administrative SciencesSpeyerGermany
  2. 2.Department of Political Science and ManagementUniversity of AgderNorway
  3. 3.ARENA Centre for European StudiesUniversity of OsloNorway

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137339898
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Political Science Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-46456-2
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-33989-8
  • About this book