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 European Union 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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