The European Public Servant A Shared Administrative Identity [Paperback]

This volume shows how the public servant has been conceived throughout history, and asks whether such conceptions are converging towards a common European administrative identity.European integration is under pressure. At the same time, the notion of a European administrative space is being explicitly voiced. But does a shared idea of the public servant exist in Europe? This volume shows how the public servant has been conceived throughout history, and asks whether such conceptions are converging towards a common European administrative identity. It combines conceptual and institutional history with political thought and empirical political science. Sager & Overeem's timely analysis constitutes an original effort to integrate history of ideas and cutting-edge survey research. It presents the subject's ideational foundations as well as its modern manifestation in European administrative space.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiList of Abbreviations ixContributors xiAcknowledgements xiiiPart One  Searching for a European Public ServantChapter One  Introduction: The European Public Servants Shared Identity 3Fritz Sager and Patrick OvereemChapter Two  Changing European Ideas about the Public Servant:A Theoretical and Methodological Framework 15Jos C. N. RaadscheldersPart Two  Older Notions of Public ServiceChapter Three  Serving the Public by Advising the Ruler 37Joanne PaulChapter Four  A History of the Oath of Office in The Netherlands 53Mark R. RutgersPart Three  The Formative Nineteenth CenturyChapter Five  Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Public Servant as aPolitical Actor in Nineteenth-Century German Thought 75Niels HegewischChapter Six  A Not-So-Statist State: The European Public Servantand the Political Theory of Pluralism 97Koen StapelbroekChapter Seven  Traditions, Bargains and the Emergence of the ProtectedPublic Servant in Western Europe 117Caspar van den Berg, Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S. A. Dijkstravi The European Public Selž