Politics and the European Commission: Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy
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This article is published in Acta Politica.The article was published on 2006-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comparative politics & Legitimacy.read more
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Technical or political ? The working groups of the EU council of ministers
TL;DR: This paper examined how members of these entities interact with civil servants in COREPER and ministers, on the one hand, and representatives of the Commission and the European Parliament on the other.
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The Public Administration Turn in Integration Research
TL;DR: The public administration turn in integration research has brought generic insights into the broader field of public administration but has also brought theories, concepts and hypotheses from public administration into the field of integration research.
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Co-managing programme implementation: conceptualizing the European Commission's role in policy execution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a concept aimed towards a better understanding of the European Commission's role during the implementation of European policies, arguing that the Commission has an intrinsic motivation to overcome informational asymmetries during policy implementation in order to stabilize its ordinary functions in policy drafting and decision making.
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Beyond the myth of nationality: Analysing networks within the European commission
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of the influence of nationality in the functioning of the European Commission and the reliance on networks based on nationality is presented, but it fails to provide much evidence apart from anecdotes.
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Federalism and Multilevel Governance in Tobacco Policy: The European Union, the United Kingdom, and Devolved UK Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the theory of regulatory federalism with multilevel governance as explanations for tobacco regulatory policy within the EU and the UK, and conclude that multi-level governance may be a superior, albeit incomplete, explanation of tobacco control.
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Technical or political ? The working groups of the EU council of ministers
TL;DR: This paper examined how members of these entities interact with civil servants in COREPER and ministers, on the one hand, and representatives of the Commission and the European Parliament on the other.
Posted Content
The Public Administration Turn in Integration Research
TL;DR: The public administration turn in integration research has brought generic insights into the broader field of public administration but has also brought theories, concepts and hypotheses from public administration into the field of integration research.
Journal ArticleDOI
Co-managing programme implementation: conceptualizing the European Commission's role in policy execution
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a concept aimed towards a better understanding of the European Commission's role during the implementation of European policies, arguing that the Commission has an intrinsic motivation to overcome informational asymmetries during policy implementation in order to stabilize its ordinary functions in policy drafting and decision making.
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Beyond the myth of nationality: Analysing networks within the European commission
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of the influence of nationality in the functioning of the European Commission and the reliance on networks based on nationality is presented, but it fails to provide much evidence apart from anecdotes.
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Federalism and Multilevel Governance in Tobacco Policy: The European Union, the United Kingdom, and Devolved UK Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the theory of regulatory federalism with multilevel governance as explanations for tobacco regulatory policy within the EU and the UK, and conclude that multi-level governance may be a superior, albeit incomplete, explanation of tobacco control.