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. Increasingly and relatively independently these agencies are taking part in transnational networks in the EU involving the European … Commission and the regulatory agencies, largely outside the control of the domestic politico-administrative leadership. This …
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institutionalisation of the EU has sustained the development of a variety of publics and networks that range across a spectrum from strong …
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This paper examines the networks that connect the European Commission to various levels of governance within higher … administrative networks based on a reading of the history of three cases of European integration in higher education, the education … programmes, agency networks as part of European cooperation in quality assurance and mutual recognition of degrees, and the role …
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Case studies indicate that national governments may be partly split so that national (regulatory) agencies operate in a ‘double-hatted’ manner, serving both ministerial departments and the European Commission. Applying large-N questionnaire data this paper follows up these studies by...
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The European Commission has over the past years intensified its efforts to develop alternative and non-legal instruments for improving implementation in the member states. One specific instrument is networked administrative structures with national regulatory agencies , aiming to harmonize and...
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Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, crosscutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The OECD secretariat is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD secretariat. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734485
Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, crosscutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The OECD secretariat is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD secretariat. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734498
Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over many years and is possibly experiencing a renaissance? Normative democratic theory, theories of formal organizations, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040226
While role behaviour and conflict dimensions in the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have been fairly well documented, studies on the internal functioning of the College of the European Commission have been almost lacking. Thus, highly inconsistent images exist; ranging...
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The unequal access of interest organizations to the EU institutions is often associated with biased European politics. Nonetheless, systematic accounts of interest group access are rare. Rooted in the organizational theory of resource dependencies and drawing on a survey of 800 EU and national...
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