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Politics and the European Commission: Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy
By Andy Smith
247 pages
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- Includes content by:
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Andy Smith
Cécile Robert
Jean Joana
Hussein Kassim
Jarle Trondal
Véronique Dimier
Sébastien Guigner
Didier Georgakakis
Olivier Baisnée
François Foret
Andy SmithShow more
Cécile Robert
Jean Joana
Hussein Kassim
Jarle Trondal
Véronique Dimier
Sébastien Guigner
Didier Georgakakis
Olivier Baisnée
François Foret
Jeannette Mak
Helen Drake
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- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication year:
- 2004
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Synopsis
The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book deliberately sets out to investigate this organization's relationship to politics. It does so first by developing a variety of case-studies (health, development aid, preparations for Eastern enlargement, ...
The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book deliberately sets out to investigate this organization's relationship to politics. It does so first by developing a variety of case-studies (health, development aid, preparations for Eastern enlargement, etc.) as a means of studying the relationships, networks and interdependencies which link commissioners and Commission officials to national politicians, civil servants and interest groups. Second, by looking in detail at how the Commission publicizes its work, notably through producing public information and liaising with the media, fresh light is shone upon the complex question of the Commission's legitimacy. Politics and the European Commission provides a framework for generating new information about, and interpretations of, the power struggles at the heart of the EU.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page v
- Contents ix
- Series Editor's Preface xiii
- Abbreviations xvi
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Actors, Institutions and Interdependence 15
- 1 - Doing Politics and Pretending Not To 17
- 2 - The Politics of Collegiality 30
- 3 - The Secretariat General of the European Commission, 1958-2003 47
- 4 - Political Dynamics of the Parallel Administration of the European Commission 67
- 5 - The Invention of a Directorate General for Development (1958-1975) 83
- 6 - Institutionalizing Public Health in the European Commission 96
- Part II - The Media, the Commission and Its Legitimacy 117
- 7 - Was It Really Just Poor Communication? 119
- 8 - The Politics of the Commission as an Information Source 134
- 9 - Advertising Europe 156
- Title Page v
- Contents ix
- Series Editor's Preface xiii
- Abbreviations xvi
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Actors, Institutions and Interdependence 15
- 1 - Doing Politics and Pretending Not To 17
- 2 - The Politics of Collegiality 30
- 3 - The Secretariat General of the European Commission, 1958-2003 47
- 4 - Political Dynamics of the Parallel Administration of the European Commission 67
- 5 - The Invention of a Directorate General for Development (1958-1975) 83
- 6 - Institutionalizing Public Health in the European Commission 96
- Part II - The Media, the Commission and Its Legitimacy 117
- 7 - Was It Really Just Poor Communication? 119
- 8 - The Politics of the Commission as an Information Source 134
- 9 - Advertising Europe 156
- 10 - Publicizing the Euro 170
- 11 - Where is He Now? 186
- Conclusion 201
- Bibliography 207
- Subject Index 226
- Author Index 228