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Politics, Civil Servants and Administrative Legitimacy in Germany.
Civil servants, as guarantors of the public interest, are supposed to act as a counterweight to changing and unstable political powers. However, civil servants' autonomy with respect to political power permits collaboration at the federal level between civil servants and political actors. The extent of politicisation ranges from patronage to political professionalism and is on the increase due to the nature of decision-making procedures and to European integration.

Examines importance of role of the Chancellery, political support units to the executive leadership, and parliamentary parties in the Bundestag in training future top officials, due to their centrality in federal policy-making; Germany.

"This book examines the impact of European integration on the politics and government of EU member states. Taking a comparative approach, the authors discuss how the process of integration has affected voters and voting behaviour; parties and party systems; the politics of contention; national interest intermediation; political communication; executive-legislative relations; national executives; and judicial politics."--Jacket