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As the quantitative overview of European Commission expert groups across the Directorates-General presented in Chapter 3 showed, the Directorate-General for Research and Technological Development is one of the Commission services with the highest number of expert groups (see Figure 3.2, also see Gerold, 1996). This is hardly surprising in view of this service’s history and tradition of strong expert involvement in the policy process (Gerold, 1996; Peschke, 2001). In line with the intensive engagement of experts in the policy process, policy making in DG Research is said to be dominated by technocratic concerns (Peterson and Sharp, 1998).
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Metz, J. (2015). Powerfully Shaping the Commission’s Research Agenda. In: The European Commission, Expert Groups, and the Policy Process. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437235_5
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