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An Emergent European Executive Order
Jarle Trondal
320 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957942-6
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Hardback
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25 February 2010
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- Broad-ranging analysis of the European Union's impact on national government.
- Cogently and impressively argued.
- Based on in-depth primary research.
This book poses two pertinent questions: First, if a European executive order is emerging, how can we empirically see it? Second, if a European executive order is emerging, how can we explain everyday decision-making processes within it? The goal of this book is two-fold: First, it identifies key institutional components of an emergent European executive order. The nucleus of this order is the European Commission. The Commission, however, is increasingly supplemented by a mushrooming parallel administration of EU-level agencies and EU committees. This book provides fresh empirical survey and interview data on the everyday decision-making behaviour, role perceptions, and identities
among European civil servants who participate within these institutions.
Secondly, this book claims and empirically substantiates that an emergent European executive order is a compound executive order balancing a limited set of key decision-making dynamics. One message of this book is that an emergent European executive order consists of a compound set of supranational, departmental, epistemic, and intergovernmental decision-making dynamics. Arguably, a compound European executive order transforms the inherent Westphalian order to the extent that intergovernmentalism is transcended and supplemented by a multidimensional mix of supranational, departmental and/or epistemic dynamics. This book also theoretically explores conditions under which these decision-making
dynamics gain prevalence. It is argued that the decision-making dynamics emerging within an emergent European executive order are conditioned by the formal organisation of its composite parts and by the patterns of social interaction that emerge among its civil servants. Political processes and political systems can neither be adequately understood nor explained without including the organisational dimension of executive orders.Readership: Scholars and students of political science and those interested in the European Union, international relations, political institutions, and public administration.
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Jarle Trondal, Professor, University of Agder and ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.
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"for anyone interested in how individuals act within EU institutions, the authors detailed mapping makes his book a must." - Anne Corbett, Journal of Common Market Studies "there can be no doubt that An Emergent Executive Order is poised to make a significant contribution to European public administration as well as to debates about the Europeanisation of domestic executives. It brings intriguing data to light about variation in officials perceptions and behaviour, and it points to future avenues of research that will incite scholars to explore the subject in even more depth." - Mareike Kleine, West European Politics
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List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introducing an Emergent European Executive Order
Part I: The Commission and an Emergent European Executive Order
2: The European Commission: Organisational Capacities and Staff Resources
3: The Autonomy of the European Commission Reassessed
4: Supranationalism and the European Commission
5: The Compound Machinery of the Commission
6: Is the Commission all that Different? Reflections on Comparative International Bureaucracies
Part II: EU-level Agencies in an Emergent European Executive Order
7: Agency Governance in an Emergent European Executive Order
8: Bureaucratic Autonomy and EU-level Agencies
Part III: EU Committee Governance in an Emergent European Executive Order
9: EU Committee Governance
10: How Supranational are Intergovernmental Institutions? The Transformative Power of Council Working Groups
11: Ambiguity and representation in an emergent European Executive Order
12: An emergent European Executive Order and the domestic branch of government
13: An emergent European Executive Order: less than a European 'mega-administration'
References
Index
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