Which policy for Europe? Power and conflict inside the European Commission
"The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore crucially shapes EU policy, which in turn impacts on the daily lives of more than 500 million European citizen...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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New York
2014
Oxford University Press |
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| author | Hartlapp, Miriam Metz, Julia Rauh, Christian |
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| description | "The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore crucially shapes EU policy, which in turn impacts on the daily lives of more than 500 million European citizens. However, despite the Commissions key role in setting the agenda for European decision making, little is known about its internal dynamics when preparing legislation. This book provides a problem-driven, theoretically-founded, and empirically rich treatment of the so far still understudied process of position-formation inside the European Commission. It reveals that various internal political positions prevail and that the role of power and conflict inside the European Commission is essential to understanding its policy proposals. Opening the 'black box' of the Commission, the book identifies three ideal types of internal position-formation. The Commission is motivated by technocratic problem-solving, by competence-seeking utility maximization or ideologically-motivated policyseeking. Specifying conditions that favor one logic over the others, the typology furthers understanding of how the EU system functions and provides novel explanations of EU policies with substantial societal implications. " |
| format | TEXT |
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| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | Which policy for Europe? Power and conflict inside the European Commission |
| language | English |
| physical | XVIII, 340 p. Paper |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publisher | New York Oxford University Press |
| spellingShingle | Hartlapp, Miriam Metz, Julia Rauh, Christian consumer EU programme European integration European Union institutional framework public administration research and development social policy Which policy for Europe? Power and conflict inside the European Commission |
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| title | Which policy for Europe? Power and conflict inside the European Commission |
| topic | consumer EU programme European integration European Union institutional framework public administration research and development social policy |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117298124919354709-Which-policy-for-europe?-Power.htm |