Politics and the European Commission Actors Interdependence Legitimacy 1st Edition by Andy Smith 9780415324076 0415324076
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ISBN 10: 0415324076
ISBN 13: 9780415324076
Author: Andy Smith
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 commissioners and Commission officials to national politicians, civil servants and interest groups. Second, by looking in detail at how the Commission publicizes its work, notably through producing public information and liaising with the media, fresh light is shone upon the complex question of the Commission’s legitimacy. Politics and the European Commission provides a framework for generating new information about, and interpretations of, the power struggles at the heart of the EU.
Table of contents:
Part I: Actors, Institutions and Interdependence
Chapter 1. Doing Politics and Pretending Not to: The Commission’s Role In Distributing Aid to Eastern Europe
Chapter 2. The Politics of Collegiality: The Non-Portfolio Dimension
Chapter 3. The Secretariat General of the European Commission, 1958–2003: A Singular Institution
Chapter 4. Political Dynamics of the Parallel Administration of the European Commission
Chapter 5. The Invention of a Directorate General for Development
Chapter 6. Institutionalizing Public Health In the European Commission: The Thrills and Spills of Politicization
Part II: The Media, the Commission and Its Legitimacy
Chapter 7. Was It Really Just Poor Communication?: A Socio-Political Reading of the Santer Commission’s Resignation
Chapter 8. The Politics of the Commission As an Information Source
Chapter 9. Advertising Europe: The Production of Public Information By the Commission
Chapter 10. Publicizing the Euro: A Case of Interest Maximization and Internal Fragmentation of the Commission
Chapter 11. Where Is He Now?: The Delors Legacy
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