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008			130906s2013 enka b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780199665693 (hbk.)
020			_a0199665699 (hbk.)
035			_a17877835
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn828415702
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041			_aeng
042			_alccopycat
050	1	4	_aJN 33.5 _bW698n 2013
082	0	4	_a341.242226 _223
100	1		_aWille, Anchrit C.
245	1	4	_aThe normalization of the European Commission : _bpolitics and bureaucracy in the EU executive / _cAnchrit Wille.
264		1	_aOxford, UK : _bOxford University Press, _c2013.
300			_axii, 243 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncluye referencias bibliográficas e indice.
505			_aIntroduction : politics and bureaucracy in an evolving executive -- Normalized executive politics -- The reinvention of the European Commission -- From technocrats to politicians : the commissioners -- From national agents to EU advisers : the chefs of cabinet -- From Mandarins to managers : the senior civil service -- An emerging political-administrative dichotomy -- Executive relationships in a 'normalized' EU Commission -- The normalization of the EU Commission -- Epilogue : quo vadis?
520			_aThe European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This 'normalization' of the EU executive is due to a series of treaty reforms and internal administrative transformations that were effectuated after the demise of the Santer Commission. Based on a large number of in-depth interviews with commissioners, heads of cabinet, and senior civil servants in the Commission, and on extensive documentary evidence, this study shows how a reinforced regime of political and administrative accountability has profoundly changed the executive relationships between politicians and bureaucrats in the Commission. The book presents a grounded empirical portrait of life at the top in the EU, exposing the Commission's struggle to revive its legitimacy and to turn it into a more transparent, accountable, and efficient organization during the Prodi and Barroso's tenures. Officials and office-holders describe in their own words the imperatives they face and the relationships they maintain, providing readers a rare insight into the day-to-day practices in one of the world's most powerful executives.
610	2	0	_aEuropean Commission.
610	2	4	_aUnión Europea. _bComisión Europea
610	2	4	_aComisión Europea
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