This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy
to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional
setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey
of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows
that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common
culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous
structure of political authority limits the capacity of European
politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to
undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself
under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently
help the organization bolster its defenses against the external
threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce
the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The
rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish
themselves as the 'custodians of Europe'. The book helps
disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a
contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic
that has received little attention.
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