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"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

Abstract: "This article introduces a collection of papers devoted to the study of secrecy in European politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains. Academic interest in secret politics - those aspects of public activity intentionally concealed from the public eye - and the governance of secrecy - the political processes and regulatory frameworks governing secret keeping - is growing. This interest reflects technological, social and political developments that appear to signal the end of privacy and the rapid expansion of political secrecy in European multi-level settings. As a consequence, the tensions between democratic accountability, with its transparency requirements, and political secrecy, which is typically justified on grounds of effectiveness of state action, have become more marked and more politicised. Engaging with these developments, the contributions to this collection draw on actor- and interest-centred perspectives that focus on actors' motivations in secret politics; institutional perspectives that focus on contestation over secrecy norms; and organisational perspectives that emphasise the diversity of secrecy cultures. Further research will benefit from paying special attention to a diverse range of inter-institutional and inter-organisational secrecy settings; to political contestation over secrecy and the regulatory regimes that govern it; and to the refashioning of public-private secrecy architectures." (Seite 825)

AbstractThis article introduces, summarizes and contextualizes the key questions and findings of a special issue of Global Policy on the resourcing of international organizations (IOs). The article sets out trends in the financial resources available to IOs; discusses their organizational consequences; and highlights analytical implications for the study of IOs. We discuss resource diversification associated with growing complexity of the origins and types of funding available to IOs; the importance of non‐state actors in IO funding; and contestation over the classification of resources. Resource diversification encourages organizational differentiation, manifested in major shifts in resource‐related actor constellations and their impact on the autonomy of IOs; adjustments to budgeting procedures; and functional differentiation within IOs and the emergence of new types of IOs that are partly driven by resourcing. These observations invite an analytical perspective in the study of IOs that pays systematic attention to the administrative governance dimension of IOs; the entrepreneurial character of many IOs; and organizational fields as a focus of analysis. Read together, the 11 contributions to the special issue underline that paying attention to their resourcing can advance our understanding of IOs.

Dans le présent article, nous nous intéressons au temps, à la temporalité et au paysage temporel dans l'étude de l'administration publique et des politiques publiques. Si les références aux catégories temporelles, comme les calendriers, l'ordonnancement, la vitesse, la durée, les budgets temps, les délais ou les horizons temporels, sont omniprésentes dans la science politique, rares sont les études systématiques sur le temps dans les domaines de l'administration et de l'élaboration des politiques. Le numéro spécial que le présent article a pour vocation d'introduire porte sur les analyses qui cherchent à expliquer l'évolution des politiques au fil du temps, le lien entre le temps et le pouvoir et le rôle que peut jouer la visualisation pour mieux comprendre l'évolution au fil du temps. D'une manière générale, les articles proposés cherchent à faire avancer le débat (i) en étudiant différentes facettes du temps et leur influence sur l'État et la politique publique ; (ii) en considérant le temps comme une institution et une ressource ; (iii) en examinant les aspects temporels de la politique et de l'administration, comme les limites des mandats, ainsi que de l'élaboration des politiques publiques, comme les cycles stratégiques ou les horizons stratégiques ; (iv) en étudiant le temps d'un point de vue diachronique et synchronique ; (v) en discutant de la situation du temps dans différentes traditions théoriques dans l'analyse politique et stratégique ; et (vi) en examinant le temps d'un point de vue méthodologique.

This article surveys time, temporality and timescapes in the study of public administration and public policy. While references to temporal categories, such as timing, sequence, speed, duration, time budgets, time limits or time horizons, are ubiquitous in political science, there are few systematic treatments of time in administration and policy-making. The special issue which this article introduces focuses on analyses that seek to explain policy development over time; the link between time and power; and the role that visualisation may play in helping to understand change over time. Taken together, the papers seek to advance the debate by 1. exploring different facets of time and how they affect government and public policy; 2. paying attention to time as an institution and a resource; 3. discussing the temporal features of politics and administration, such as, e.g., term limits, and of public policy-making, such as policy cycles or policy horizons; 4. exploring time from both diachronic-historical and synchronic perspectives; 5. debating the status of time in different theoretical traditions in political and policy analysis; and 6. examining time from a methodological standpoint.