Best Seller The Normalization of the European Commission

The Normalization of the European Commission High quality books

The Normalization of the European Commission
By:Anchrit Wille
Published on 2013-06-20 by OUP Oxford

The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This 'normalization' of the EU executive is due to a series of treaty reforms and internal administrative transformations that were effectuated after the demise of the Santer Commission. Based on a large number of in-depth interviews with commissioners, heads of cabinet, and senior civil servants in the Commission, and on extensive documentary evidence, this study shows how a reinforced regime of political and administrative accountability has profoundly changed the executive relationships between politicians and bureaucrats in the Commission. The book presents a grounded empirical portrait of life at the top in the EU, exposing the Commission's struggle to revive its legitimacy and to turn it into a more transparent, accountable, and efficient organization during the Prodi and Barroso's tenures. Officials and office-holders describe in their own words the imperatives they face and the relationships they maintain, providing readers a rare insight into the day-to-day practices in one of the world's most powerful executives.

This Book was ranked at 14 by Google Books for keyword Classical dichotomy.

Book ID of The Normalization of the European Commission's Books is CK1oAgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byAnchrit Willehave ETAG "xfor+/UMpx0"

Book which was published by OUP Oxford since 2013-06-20 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780191643972 and ISBN 10 Code is 0191643971

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "256 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPolitical Science

This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""

This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false

Book Preview