Suchergebnisse

Endorsements -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: A Public Administration Perspective on International Organizations -- Introduction -- Perspectives and Gaps -- Contours of a PA Approach to IPAs -- Central Conceptual Perspectives on IPAs -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: A Matter of Will and Action: The Bureaucratic Autonomy of International Public Administrations -- Introduction -- Bureaucratic Autonomy: The PA Perspective -- Bureaucratic Organization at the International Level: How Is It Different?

"This important collection examines the emerging bureaucratic framework which underpins the European Union and in doing so constitutes a primer on the administrative system of the EU. Drawing on the latest research from the administrative sciences and using organizational, institutional and decision-making theories, this volume highlights that analyzing the patterns and dynamics of the administrative capacities of the EU are essential in understanding how the EU shapes European public policy. Accordingly, this study does not examine administrative capacities not in isolation but rather analyzes them as structures that mobilize systematic bias in the production of public policy. This layout allows the chapters to tackle pressing questions about the nature of the EU's emerging bureaucracy such as to what extent, how and under what conditions do administrative systems change and complement pre-existing public administration systems? Can new administrative systems profoundly transform pre-existing ones? And What are the principled implications of an emergent new European administrative system? "--

Part I. Dismantling debates and analytical approaches. 1. Policy dismantling: an introduction / Andrew Jordan, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, and John Turnpenny -- 2. Understanding policy dismantling: an analytical framework / Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill -- Part II. The dynamics of policy dismantling. Active dismantling. 3. Sequences of active policy dismantling? Path dependency in pension reform processes / Sophie Schmitt -- 4. Active dismantling under high institutional constraints? Explaining the Bush administration's attempts to weaken US air pollution control policy / Stefanie Korte and Helge Jörgens -- Dismantling by default. 5. From dismantling by default to arena shifting? Child benefits policy in Spain / Andrea Bianculli, Nicole Jenne, and Jacint Jordana -- 6. Dismantling by default? The indexation of social benefits in four countries / Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Flemming Juul Christiansen, Eva-Maria Euchner, Carsten Jensen, and John Turnpenny -- Dismantling by symbolic action. 7. When the dismantling of an ineffective policy becomes increasingly costly: default strategies, arena shifting, and symbolic action in German waste policy / Dominik Bernauer and Christoph Knill -- 8. From dismantling by default to symbolic dismantling? Water policy in the United Kingdom / Andrew Jordan and John Turnpenny -- Part III. Comparative conclusions. 9. Dismantling public policy: preferences, strategies, and effects / Michael W. Bauer, Andrew Jordan, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, and Adrienne Héritier

This book puts the organizational base of EU policy-making centre stage. It asks three crucial questions about recent administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible; what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organization; what is the likely impact for the policy process?