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The central purpose of the paper is to explain why some officials involved in Council working groups have a more positive disposition towards European integration than others. The paper is inspired by the fact that many studies on European integration deal only occasionally with the attitudes...
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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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This contribution begins with reciting the facts behind the resignation of the European Commission under Jacques Santer, followed by theoretical considerations on the significance of trust and reputation from the principal-agent-theory perspective. The third part puts the emphasis on discussing...
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democratic shortfall. The 2001 White Paper on Governance acknowledged that the line between expertise and political authority had …
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In the second half of the nineties, a number of EU Member States went through intense public controversies over agro-food biotechnology. These controversies occurred almost synchronously, brought about parallel issue-framings and actor-constellations, led national governments to adopt...
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In recent years, not only governance, but also civil society has been a veritable growth industry both in politics and …
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In this article we approach the functioning of bureaucracy in ESDP from a governance perspective that also focuses on … informal patterns of interaction between the relevant bureaucratic actors. Following the governance and related network … governance approaches, the interplay between formal and informal patterns of interaction can help to overcome deadlock in policy …
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The Council Secretariat General has emerged as one of the institutional winners of the dynamic development of the EU’s foreign and security policy, especially in the field of crisis management. Despite this, the role of the Council Secretariat in European foreign policy remains under...
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