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The cabinets of the European Commission are seen to play a crucial role in the policy-making process. So far, however, they have in many respects remained ‘black boxes’. In this paper we ‘unpack’ the demographic composition in terms of nationality of the three latest commissions’...
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-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards market- or network … ideological struggle over what are desirable forms of administration and government, that is, a struggle over institutional … challenges of public administration. Rather, bureaucratic organization is part of a repertoire of overlapping, supplementary and …
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Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over many years and is possibly experiencing a renaissance? Normative democratic theory, theories of formal organizations, and...
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-fledged political body, concerns about accountability are automatically raised. Obviously, territorialisation of the institution; i …
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The relationship between the member states and the Commission is at the heart of the EU's institutional structure and at the centre of debates about the European Union. In the 1990s, the new institutionalism and the multi-level governance approach emphasised the limitations of state power in EU...
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How can students of the European Union get from describing recent advances, to speculating about what are possible new directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the understanding how the Union is overned and...
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To sketch an institutional approach, this paper elaborates ideas presented over 20 years ago in The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life (March and Olsen 1984). Institutionalism, as that term is used here, connotes a general approach to the study of political...
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Many students of public administration have claimed, as rationale for the field, that the Prince, the President, the … perspective, the questions become, under what conditions is it likely that administration will provide help in democratic settings … administration, and in particular the relations between administrators and citizens are organized? …
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Over the last three decades many public sector reforms have aimed at giving administrative agencies and non-majoritarian institutions more autonomy from majority-based institutions and common sets of rules. The detachment-from-politics trend has implications for the public sector’s core...
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This article highlights how the study of public administration is brought back into the study of European integration … and European Union (EU) governance. The public administration turn in integration research has brought generic insights … into the broader field of public administration but has also brought theories, concepts and hypotheses from public …
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