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| The European Commission in the 21st Century Hooghe, Liesbet |
| Haupttitel | The European Commission in the 21st Century |
| Titelzusatz | core beliefs on EU governance |
| Autor | Hooghe, Liesbet |
| Seitenzahl | 31 S. |
| Schriftenreihe | Working paper / KFG, The Tranformative Power of Europe ; 38 |
| URL des Originaldokuments | URL >> |
| Fachbereich/Einrichtung | FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften |
| Arbeitsbereich/Institut | Kolleg Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012 |
| Dokumente | pdf-Datei
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| DDC | 320 Politik |
| Dokumententyp/-Sammlungen | Monographie/Text |
| Medientyp/Format | Text |
| Abstract | What lives in the European Commission at the beginning of the 21st Century? This paper charts Commission officials’ views on the governance, ideological direction, and policy scope of the European Union, employing data from a large survey conducted in Autumn 2008. First, the Commission is not a hothouse for supranationalism. True, supporters of a supranational Union with the College of Commissioners as the government of Europe and member states in the back seat are the largest minority, but they are outnumbered two-to-one by state-centric, pragmatist, and ambivalent officials. There are striking differences in distribution by nationality, gender, and department. Second, where do Commission officials stand on ideology? The answer is that the Commission is broadly representative of European societies, at least on traditional economic left/right issues, though decidedly more socio-liberal. Ideological views are not randomly distributed across services, with social DGs significantly more social-democratic than DGs handling market integration. Officials from new member states are more market-liberal than their ‘western’ colleagues. Finally, are Commission officials indeed bureau-maximizers? We find that, on the whole, Commission officials want more EU authority in the eleven policy areas that we asked them to evaluate, but their desire to centralize is selective and measured. It seems driven by functional imperatives – centralization where scale economies can be reaped – and by values and ideology rather than by a generalized preference for maximal Commission power. In short, the bureaucratic politics argument has been overstated. |
| Inhalt | 1. Introduction 5 2. Commission Officials and EU Governance 5 2.1 Explaining Beliefs on EU Governance 9 2.2 Beliefs about the Future 12 3. Commission Officials and Politics 14 3.1 Understanding Ideological Variation in the Commission 15 3.2 The Meaning of the “Political“ 18 4. Commission Officials and Policy Scope 21 4.1 Centralization Across the Board? 22 4.2 Bureau-maximization? 24 5. Conclusion 26 References 28 Appendix: Multivariate Analyses 31 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Rechte | Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| Statische URL | http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000013306 |
| Erstellt am | 13.04.2012 - 16:17:36 |
| Letzte Änderung | 13.04.2012 - 16:34:52 |
