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Many international and supranational organisations have lately been
busy modernising their internal administration. But nowhere has
management change received a similar amount of attention than in
the case of the European Commission. Although the perception
prevails that the Commission has been losing out in recent years,
this vivid interest, academic as well as public, in the so-called
Kinnock reform suggests that this organisation still remains "at
the heart of the Union". The proposition of this book thus is
simple. If it remains true that the Commission is an essential part
within the (admittedly complex) equation of EU policy-making,
changes of the administration basis of this actor are likely to
have broader implications. Consequently, this special issue poses
three crucial questions about the recent administrative reform of
the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform
possible, what are its specific implications for the Commission as
an organisation and what is the likely impact for the policy
process? In short, this book puts the organisational base of EU
policy-making centre stage. In the quest for answers the authors of
the subsequent chapters take distinct perspectives, use various
research strategies and methods, and attempt to solve diverse
empirical puzzles. But all attempt to add to our understanding of
this organisational base, and how to systematically study it. This
book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European
Public Policy.
Many international and supranational organisations have lately been
busy modernising their internal administration. But nowhere has
management change received a similar amount of attention than in
the case of the European Commission. Although the perception
prevails that the Commission has been losing out in recent years,
this vivid interest, academic as well as public, in the so-called
Kinnock reform suggests that this organisation still remains "at
the heart of the Union". The proposition of this book thus is
simple. If it remains true that the Commission is an essential part
within the (admittedly complex) equation of EU policy-making,
changes of the administration basis of this actor are likely to
have broader implications. Consequently, this special issue poses
three crucial questions about the recent administrative reform of
the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform
possible, what are its specific implications for the Commission as
an organisation and what is the likely impact for the policy
process? In short, this book puts the organisational base of EU
policy-making centre stage. In the quest for answers the authors of
the subsequent chapters take distinct perspectives, use various
research strategies and methods, and attempt to solve diverse
empirical puzzles. But all attempt to add to our understanding of
this organisational base, and how to systematically study it. This
book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European
Public Policy.
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role
that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on
a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of
in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of
annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant
judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and
decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of
actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the
emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact
of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the
impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they
originate from.
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role
that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on
a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of
in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of
annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant
judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and
decision-making competences. The book covers the motivations of
actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the
emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact
of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the
impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they
originate from.
This book applies established analytical concepts such as
influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting
and multilevel administration to the study of international
bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the
commonalities and differences between national and international
administrations and carefully constructs the impact of
international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows
how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize
interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International
Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The
book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on
the challenge of internationalization.
This book applies established analytical concepts such as
influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting
and multilevel administration to the study of international
bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the
commonalities and differences between national and international
administrations and carefully constructs the impact of
international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows
how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize
interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International
Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The
book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on
the challenge of internationalization.
How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy
implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled
into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an
implementation management capacity? How should we conceptualise the
Commission's linkage with post-decision management issues? Finally,
how does the Commission's involvement in the application of EU
policies, if any, significantly change everything? Such questions
are answered in this study, which is concerned with what may be
called the implementation management capacity of the European
Commission. Simply put, this is the role the Commission plays in
the implementation of large-scale European spending programmes.
While it is true that the Commission's predominant prerogatives are
to draft legislation and facilitate bargaining, it also has a role
in post-decision policy management. This role is of increasing
importance for the emerging governance of the European Union.
Readership: social scientists, journalists and all those interested
in the role of the European Commission in shaping EU policies.
How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy
implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled
into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an
implementation management capacity? How should we conceptualise the
Commission's linkage with post-decision management issues? Finally,
how does the Commission's involvement in the application of EU
policies, if any, significantly change everything? Such questions
are answered in this study, which is concerned with what may be
called the implementation management capacity of the European
Commission. Simply put, this is the role the Commission plays in
the implementation of large-scale European spending programmes.
While it is true that the Commission's predominant prerogatives are
to draft legislation and facilitate bargaining, it also has a role
in post-decision policy management. This role is of increasing
importance for the emerging governance of the European Union.
Readership: social scientists, journalists and all those interested
in the role of the European Commission in shaping EU policies.
Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions - political
pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law-are coming under
pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe.
While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social
science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with
political parties and political behavior, public administration
research lags behind. However, without considering illiberal
approaches towards the executive, efforts of actual and aspiring
authoritarians remain only partly understood. State bureaucracies
are, after all, important instruments of power. This timely and
important volume addresses the administrative implications of
liberal-democratic backsliding. It studies public administrations
as objects and subjects in the context of illiberal dynamics. For
this purpose, the volume brings together an international group of
scholars to analyze authoritarian tendencies in several countries.
The contributions combine theoretical with empirical work,
providing the first comparative perspective on an overlooked aspect
of one of the most important contemporary political trends.
Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which
involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of
existing policies. The perceived need to dismantle existing
policies normally acquires particular poignancy during periods of
acute economic austerity. Dismantling is thought to be especially
productive of political conflict, pitting those who benefit from
the status quo against those who, for whatever reason, seek change.
However, scholars of public policy have been rather slow to offer a
comprehensive account of the precise conditions under which
particular aspects of policy are dismantled, grounded in systematic
empirical analysis. Although our overall understanding of what
causes policy to change has accelerated a lot in recent decades,
there remains a bias towards the study of either policy expansion
or policy stability. Dismantling does not even merit a mention in
most public policy textbooks. Yet without an account of both
expansion and dismantling, our understanding of policy change in
general, and the politics surrounding the cutting of existing
policies, will remain frustratingly incomplete. This book seeks to
develop a more comparative approach to understanding policy
dismantling, by looking in greater detail at the dynamics of
cutting in two different policy fields: one (social policy) which
has been subjected to study before and the other (environmental
policy) which has not. On the basis of a systematic analysis of the
existing literatures in these two fields, it develops a new
analytical framework for measuring and explaining policy
dismantling. Through an analysis of six, fresh empirical cases of
dismantling written by leading experts, it reveals a more nuanced
picture of change, focusing on what actually motivates actors to
dismantle, the strategies they use to secure their objectives and
the politically significant effects they ultimately generate.
Dismantling Public Policy is essential reading for anyone wanting
to better understand a hugely important facet of contemporary
policy and politics. It will inform a range of student courses in
comparative public policy, politics, social and environmental
policy.
The European Commission is arguably the world's most powerful
international administration. It plays a central role in the
political system of the European Union. The Commission is a
permanent presence in the life of the member states, but its
influence is felt far beyond their borders. Viewed historically as
the motor of European integration, the Commission is the subject of
intense controversy. It is portrayed frequently as technocratic,
monolithic, and unaccountable, but also as fragmented and weakly
led. According to accepted wisdom, it is populated by career
bureaucrats, who want only to expand the competencies of the Union
and therefore their own power.
This book tests these views. It asks: Who are the people who work
for the organization? What are their educational and professional
backgrounds? What do officials believe about the role of the
Commission in the EU today and whether the Union should have more
or less power? What leads them to choose to pursue a career in the
Commission, and how do they navigate its complexities? How does the
Barroso Commission compare to previous Commissions? How harmonious
are relations between cabinets and the services? What has been the
impact on the Commission of reform and of the 'big bang'
enlargement?
Co-authored by an international team of researchers, this book
draws on original data from the largest attitudinal survey ever
conducted by independent researchers inside the Commission, as well
as a structured programme of interviews with senior officials. It
provides an authoritative account of the European Commission of the
twenty-first century.
Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which
involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of
existing policies. The perceived need to dismantle existing
policies normally acquires particular poignancy during periods of
acute economic austerity. Dismantling is thought to be especially
productive of political conflict, pitting those who benefit from
the status quo against those who, for whatever reason, seek change.
However, scholars of public policy have been rather slow to offer a
comprehensive account of the precise conditions under which
particular aspects of policy are dismantled, grounded in systematic
empirical analysis. Although our overall understanding of what
causes policy to change has accelerated a lot in recent decades,
there remains a bias towards the study of either policy expansion
or policy stability. Dismantling does not even merit a mention in
most public policy textbooks. Yet without an account of both
expansion and dismantling, our understanding of policy change in
general, and the politics surrounding the cutting of existing
policies, will remain frustratingly incomplete.
This book seeks to develop a more comparative approach to
understanding policy dismantling, by looking in greater detail at
the dynamics of cutting in two different policy fields: one (social
policy) which has been subjected to study before and the other
(environmental policy) which has not. On the basis of a systematic
analysis of the existing literatures in these two fields, it
develops a new analytical framework for measuring and explaining
policy dismantling. Through an analysis of six, fresh empirical
cases of dismantling written by leading experts, it reveals a more
nuanced picture of change, focusing on what actually motivates
actors to dismantle, the strategies they use to secure their
objectives and the politically significant effects they ultimately
generate.
Dismantling Public Policy is essential reading for anyone wanting
to better understand a hugely important facet of contemporary
policy and politics. It will inform a range of student courses in
comparative public policy, politics, social and environmental
policy.
The Handbook of Public Administration and Policy in the European
Union focuses on the current state of the EU while also
demonstrating how its current structure came into being and how it
may change in the near future. Although most existing literature is
either policy-oriented or institution-oriented, this textbook
employs a different, more comprehensive approach. Not only does it
analyze selected EU laws and most EU institutions, it is also
unique in that it brings together EU public administration, EU
institutions, and, most importantly, EU policies into a
comprehensive text. Divided into five parts, the book provides an
overview of theory discourses on European integration, followed by
an analysis of the development of European organizations. Part II
explains the nature of the EU, highlighting its institutions. Part
III addresses various dimensions of public administration, followed
by a review in Part IV of major EU policies, including the Common
Agricultural Policy. The textbook concludes with a history of
Economic and Monetary Union and a study of the European Central
Bank and the euro.
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