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It is well known that EU citizenship is parasitic upon national citizenship. To become an EU citizen it is necessary to be a citizen of one of the Member States, and the states have exclusive competence to decide who their own citizens are. They therefore function as gatekeepers, and jealously...
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The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in the social sciences. Yet beyond the bedrock agreement that governance has become (and should be) multi-level, there is no convergence about how it should be...
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This study explores the multiple representational roles evoked by an under-researched segment of the European Commission: temporary Commission officials. The article has a dual ambition: The first is to outline an institutional perspective on representation that seizes a middle-ground between...
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different types of neutrality. It is argued that by looking at the legacies of different types of neutrality on identity and …
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When aiming at studying the interconnectedness of administrative systems and in particular the integration of domestic governance systems and the institutions of the European Union at least two variables are important to address: (i) the intensity and frequency of cross-level interaction and...
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policy choice. Instead, we advance an alternative explanation – subsequently referred to as ‘identity endorsement –that is … development of Portuguese identity has constituted what has been perceived as appropriate in the context of Eastern enlargement …. We argue that EC/EU membership has provided Portuguese political elites with a renewed collective identity, in which a …
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employment guidelines for the EES – European employment strategy, has affected the work of the Swedish public administration …
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The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...
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European Employment Strategy (EES) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) are two examples of an instrument outside the …
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The salience of European issues to the general public is a major determinant of the domestic legitimacy demands that … the legitimacy demands that governments have to meet on the domestic level. Whereas the domestic legitimacy of European … legitimacy demands when formulating their European policies than German governments. This may contribute to accounting for both …
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