Politics and the European Commission : actors, interdependence, legitimacy / edited by Andy Smith.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Smith, Andy, 1963 July 24-

Series:

• Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 36.
• Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• European Commission.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book deliberately sets out to investigate this organization's relationship to politics. It does so first by developing a variety of case-studies (health, development aid, preparations for Eastern enlargement, etc.) as a means of studying the relationships, networks and interdependencies which link commis

Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Actors, institutions and interdependence; Doing politics and pretending not to: the Commission's role in distributing aid to Eastern Europe; The politics of collegiality: the non-portfolio dimension; The Secretariat General of the European Commission, 1958 2003: a singular institution; Political dynamics of the parallel administration of the European Commission; The invention of a Directorate General for development (1958 1975)
• Institutionalizing public health in the European Commission: the thrills and spills of politicizationThe media, the Commission and its legitimacy; Was it really just poor communication? A socio-political reading of the Santer Commission's resignation; The politics of the Commission as an information source; Advertising Europe: the production of public information by the Commission; Publicizing the euro: a case of interest maximization and internal fragmentation of the Commission; Where is he now? The Delors legacy; Conclusion: politics in the European Union; Bibliography; Subject index
• Author index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225) and indexes.

ISBN:

• 1-134-34744-8
• 0-203-68249-1
• 1-134-34745-6
• 1-280-05384-4
• 0-203-35688-8

OCLC:

437061256