The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System

by Bauer, Michael W.; Trondal, Jarle

• ISBN13: 9781137339881
• ISBN10: 1137339888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-01-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This important collection examines the emerging bureaucratic framework which underpins the European Union (EU) and in doing so constitutes a primer on the administrative system of the EU. Drawing on the latest research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional, and decision-making theories, this volume highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the administrative capacities of the EU is essential in understanding how the EU shapes European public policy. Accordingly, this study does not examine administrative capacities in isolation but rather analyzes them as structures that mobilize systematic bias in the production of public policy. This layout allows the chapters to tackle pressing questions about the nature of the EU's emerging bureaucracy such as to what extent, how, and under what conditions do administrative systems change and complement pre-existing public administration systems? Can new administrative systems profoundly transform pre-existing ones? And, what are the principled implications of an emergent new European administrative system?

Author Biography

Michael W. Bauer is Jean Monnet Professor and holds the Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He has worked extensively on issues of multilevel public administration. He is interested in the comparative analysis of administrative structures and the consequence on public policy-making.
 
Jarle Trondal is Professor in Political Science and Public Administration at University of Agder, Department of Political Science. He is also Professor in European Studies at University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, and Honorary Professor at University of Copenhagen. His main research interests are in public administration, organizational studies, and the study of European political order transformation.

Table of Contents

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, Åse 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 Institutional Context of the European Union's Council System and the International Design of Discretion for Preparatory Agents; Jeffery Lewis
PART V: EU'S COURT ADMINISTRATIVE
17. The Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Administrative Space; Herwig C H. Hofman
18. The European Court of Auditors and Its Relationship With National Independent Audit Institutions: The Evolving Audit Function in the EU Multi-Level System; Hartmut Aden
PART VI: EU'S SUBORDINATED ADMINISTRATION
19. EU's Subordinated Agency Administration and the Rise of Executive Power at the European Level; Morten Egeberg, Maria Martens and Jarle Trondal
20. Exploring EU Commission-Agency Relationship: Partnership or Parenthood? Nina Merethe Vestlund
PART VII: VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION
21. Horizontal Capacity Pooling: Direct, Decentralized, Joint Policy Execution; Eva G. Heidbreder
22. EU Administration and Interaction with International Organizations; Bob Reinalda
23. The Expert-Executive Nexus in the European Administrative System: Expert Groups and the European Commission; Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup
24. Comitology: Over 50 Years of Institutional Reforms and Emerging Practices; Gijs Jan Brandsma
25. Subnational Administrations in the EU Multilevel System: Perspectives from the Bureaucratic Elite; Michael W. Bauer and Stefan Becker
26. The Europeanization of Civil Services and Human Resources (HR) Policies; Christoph Demmke
PART VIII: CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES
27 . Holding Executive Power to Account: The EU Administration's Accountability Challenge(s); Anchrit Wille
28. The European Administrative System Reassessed; Jarle Trondal