The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System [Hardcover]

Drawing on research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional and decision-making theories, this volume examines the emerging bureaucratic framework of the EU and highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the EU's administrative capacities is essential to understand how it shapes European public policy.1. Introduction: The Administrative System of the European Union; Michael W. Bauer and Jarle Trondal PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. European Public Administration as Multilevel System Administration: A conceptual Framework; Arthur Benz 3. The Two Logics of Multilevel Administration in the EU; Edgar Grande and Martina McCowan 4. EU Administration: Center Formation and Multilevelness; Morton Egeberg 5. A Conceptual Account of the European Administrative Space; Jarle Trondal and B. Guy Peters 6. Administrative Styles of EU Institutions; Christoph Knill and Stephan Grohs 7. Administrative Reforms in the European Commission and the Neo-Weberian Model; Edoardo Ongaro PART II; EU'S EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION 8. The European Commision: Politics and Administration; Michelle Cini 9. Politicization of the European Commission: When, How and with What Impact?; Miriam Hartlapp 10. The Permanent Commission Bureaucrat; Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim 11. The Temporary Commission Bureaucrat; Zuzana Murdoch and Jarle Trondal 12. The European External Action Service (EEAS): The New Kid of the Block; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART III: EU'S PARLIAMENT ADMINISTRATION 13. The European Administration: Organizational Structure and Behavioral Implications; Morten Egeberg, ?se Gornitzka, Jarle Trondal and Mathias Johannessen 14. Officials 'Pre-Cooking' EU Affairs? The Role of EP Officials in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP); Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold PART IV: EU'S 'INTERGOVERNMENTAL' ADMINISTRATION 15. The EU Council(s) System and Administrative Fusion; Wolfgang Wessels, Peter Valant and Tobias Kunstein 16. the InslCß