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"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?

How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an implementation management capacity? How should we conceptualise the Commission's linkage with post-decision management issues? Finally, how does the Commission's involvement in the application of EU policies, if any, significantly change everything? Such questions are answered in this study, which is concerned with what may be called the implementation management capacity of the European Commission. Simply put, this is the role the Commission plays in the implementation of large-scale European spending programmes. While it is true that the Commission's predominant prerogatives are to draft legislation and facilitate bargaining, it also has a role in post-decision policy management. This role is of increasing importance for the emerging governance of the European Union. Readership: social scientists, journalists and all those interested in the role of the European Commission in shaping EU policies

Die Verwaltungswissenschaft hat in Deutschland einen unsicheren Stand und einen unklaren Status. Eine kohärente politologische Forschungsprogrammatik hat sich weder im Hinblick auf eine empirische Verwaltungslehre noch als Theorie politischer Organisation etabliert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge ziehen Bilanz und loten neue Perspektiven der Verknüpfung empirischer Forschung und Theoriebildung aus.Mit Beiträgen vonChristian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Becker, Jörg Bogumil, Nathalie Behnke, Arthur Benz, Edgar Grande, Christoph Knill, Frank Nullmeier, Rainer Prätorius, Wolfgang Seibel, Annette Töller und Sylvia Veit.

In recent years, International Organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This development has so far not been subject to systematic or comparative investigations. With Management Reforms in International Organizations Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill present a first attempt to open this black box. How can we explain the speed, acceptance and scope of management reforms in International Organizations? How important are Secretary Generals and member states? Do International Organizations, often considered as crucial diffusion agents for public management reforms, actually live up to the standards they are promoting? Do management reforms have unintended consequences with regard to the policy output? The book delivers a comprehensive analysis of management reforms in a broad range of different International Organizations. Leading scholars in the field analyze the respective reform processes inter alia in the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the United Nations

The European Union is going through turbulent times. The aftermath of the eurozone crisis, the challenges posed by increasing migration and the Brexit negotiations are just some of the recent challenges that have threatened the future of the Union. It is against this background that this volume brings together contributions by a variety of scholars from different academic disciplines. Focusing on the role of the Commission within the institutional system of the EU, its internal structures and processes as well as its policymaking and implementation activities, this book addresses some of the most pressing empirical and theoretical questions that have surrounded the Commission in recent years. While the last decade has intensified the challenges faced by this institution, this book's main contention is that the Commission's central position has partly endured as a result of deliberate decisions made by the EU's member states, and partly through the Commission's own activism.With contributions byProf. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels, Marieke Eckhardt, Prof. Dr. Andreas Maurer, Michael C. Wolf, Dr. Christian Adam, Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp, Dipl.-Jur. Robert Böttner, Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Tömmel, Prof. Dr. Sandra Eckert, Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt, Prof. Dr. Marc Ringel, Prof. Dr. Hussein Kassim, Prof. Dr. Sara Connolly, Prof. Dr. Michael W. Bauer, Dr. Jörn Ege, Stefan Becker, M.A.

Intro -- 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? -- Approaching Autonomy from a Relational and Sociological Perspective -- Conceptualizing and Measuring International Bureaucratic Autonomy -- Empirical Results and Possible Implications -- Conclusion and Way Forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Administrative Styles of International Organizations: Can We Find Them, Do They Matter? -- Introduction -- Administrative Styles: State of the Art and Research Gaps -- A Refined Concept of Administrative Styles -- (1) Policy Initiation Styles -- (2) Policy Drafting Styles -- (3) Policy Implementation Styles -- Toward Explanation: Determinants of Administrative Styles -- (1) The Policy Ambitions of the Bureaucracy -- (2) The Institutional Orientation of a Bureaucracy -- Four Ideal Types of Administrative Styles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Orchestrating (Bio-)Diversity: The Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity as an Attention-­Seeking Bureaucracy -- Introduction -- Heuristic Framework: International Secretariats as Attention-Seeking Bureaucracies -- Treaty Secretariats as Attention-Seeking Bureaucracies -- Seeking Attention from the Inside: Treaty Secretariats' Cooperation with Chairpersons of Multilateral Negotiations.