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This book examines the position and role of expertise in European
policy-making and governance. At a time when the very notion of
expertise and expert advice is increasingly losing authority, the
book addresses these challenges by empirically examining specific
administrative processes and institutional designs in the European
Union. The first part of the volume theorizes expertise and its
contestation by examining accounts of the legitimate institutional
design of knowledge production processes and exploring the
theoretical links of Europeanisation and expertise. The second part
of the book delves into empirical institutionalist accounts of
expertise and maps the role of experts in a variety of EU
institutions but also explains the implications when EU bodies
themselves are in an 'expert' position, such as agencies. The book
offers insights into how individual experts deal with the challenge
of producing reports that will be heard by policy-makers, while at
the same time preserving their independence. Broadening its scope,
the book then expands the analysis to the role of advisory
committees in light of the shift from a reliance primarily on
in-house expertise to including more external experts in advisory
groups in the European Commission and European Parliament as well
as at the European External Action. In the third part, the book
opens the lens to developments beyond the EU by taking into account
two highly pertinent fields: climate change and trade. These fields
are highly complex, fast-developing, and politicised issues, and
the book engages with them in order to provide an outside-in
perspective on expertise. Chapter 6 is available open access under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This book examines the position and role of expertise in European
policy-making and governance. At a time when the very notion of
expertise and expert advice is increasingly losing authority, the
book addresses these challenges by empirically examining specific
administrative processes and institutional designs in the European
Union. The first part of the volume theorizes expertise and its
contestation by examining accounts of the legitimate institutional
design of knowledge production processes and exploring the
theoretical links of Europeanisation and expertise. The second part
of the book delves into empirical institutionalist accounts of
expertise and maps the role of experts in a variety of EU
institutions but also explains the implications when EU bodies
themselves are in an 'expert' position, such as agencies. The book
offers insights into how individual experts deal with the challenge
of producing reports that will be heard by policy-makers, while at
the same time preserving their independence. Broadening its scope,
the book then expands the analysis to the role of advisory
committees in light of the shift from a reliance primarily on
in-house expertise to including more external experts in advisory
groups in the European Commission and European Parliament as well
as at the European External Action. In the third part, the book
opens the lens to developments beyond the EU by taking into account
two highly pertinent fields: climate change and trade. These fields
are highly complex, fast-developing, and politicised issues, and
the book engages with them in order to provide an outside-in
perspective on expertise. Chapter 6 is available open access under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
This book studies the relationship between administrative capacity
and a member state's influence in the European Union. More
specifically, it studies member states' ability to exert control
over the European Commission during trade negotiations. But what
determines administrative capacity and how do member states ensure
their preferences are defended during trade negotiations? A
combination of qualitative fieldwork and survey-analysis provides
the answer. Interviews in Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Spain offer
a privileged insight into the functioning of national trade
administrations and its effects on their behavior in the Council of
Ministers. Through survey data, these findings are further
corroborated. The book is aimed at a readership interested in EU
decision-making, negotiation theory, comparative public
administration and the international political economy of trade.
This book assesses the use and limitations of the principal-agent
model in a context of increasingly complex political systems such
as the European Union. Whilst a number of conceptual, theoretical
and methodological challenges need to be addressed, the authors
show that the principal-agent model can still provide deeper
insights into a wide range of political phenomena. Through an
empirical analysis of multiple principal-agent relations in the EU,
covering a variety of policy fields and political actors, the
volume refines our theoretical understanding of the politics of
delegation and discretion in the EU. It will appeal to scholars in
interested in EU politics and policy, public administration and
governance, and international organisations. The chapter 'Multiple
principals preferences, different types of oversight mechanisms,
and agent's discretion in trade negotiations' is published open
access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
This book studies the relationship between administrative capacity
and a member state's influence in the European Union. More
specifically, it studies member states' ability to exert control
over the European Commission during trade negotiations. But what
determines administrative capacity and how do member states ensure
their preferences are defended during trade negotiations? A
combination of qualitative fieldwork and survey-analysis provides
the answer. Interviews in Belgium, Poland, Estonia and Spain offer
a privileged insight into the functioning of national trade
administrations and its effects on their behavior in the Council of
Ministers. Through survey data, these findings are further
corroborated. The book is aimed at a readership interested in EU
decision-making, negotiation theory, comparative public
administration and the international political economy of trade.
Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic
terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy
choices by the EU or its trading partners? This book provides a
first systematic study of the broader international context in
which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed.
Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book
develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship
on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign
policy analysis. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations
between the EU and the Asia-Pacific. Following the United States'
pivot to Asia and the EU's Global Europe strategy, China's backyard
has become the main arena in which global powers' geo-economic
strategies overlap. Building on a series of case-studies, combining
the perspectives from the EU and its trading partners, the book
shows that the rhetoric of geo-economic competition is yet to catch
up with the actual negotiation and design of free trade agreements.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and
practitioners who want to gain a holistic understanding of
contemporary trade negotiations.
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