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The European Commission and the integration of Europe : images of governance / Liesbet Hooghe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooghe, Liesbet, author.
- Series:
- Themes in European governance.
- Themes in European governance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Commission.
- European Union.
- European federation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- The European Commission & the Integration of Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What kind of European Union do top Commission officials want? Should the European Union be supranational or intergovernmental? Should it promote market-liberalism or regulated capitalism? Should the Commission be Europe's government or its civil service? This 2002 book examines top officials' preferences on these questions through analysis of unique data from 137 interviews. Understanding the forces that shape human preferences is the subject of intense debate. Hooghe demonstrates that the Commission has difficulty shaping its employees' preferences in the fluid multi-institutional context of the European Union. Top officials' preferences are better explained by experiences outside rather than inside the Commission: political party, country, and prior work leave deeper imprints than directorate-general or cabinet. Preferences are also influenced more by internalized values than by self-interested career calculation. Hooghe's findings are surprising, and will challenge a number of common assumptions about the workings and motives of the European Commission.
- Contents:
- Preference formation in the European commission
- Men (and women) at Europe's helm
- Images of Europe
- Beyond supranational interest
- Capitalism against capitalism
- Principal or agent
- Accommodating national diversity.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12422-0
- 0-511-15657-X
- 1-280-43356-6
- 0-511-04426-7
- 0-511-17588-4
- 0-511-32930-X
- 0-521-00143-9
- 0-511-49197-2
- OCLC:
- 437063404
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