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Politics and the European Commission: Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy (Routledge Ecpr Studies in European Political Science)

By Andy Smith

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0415324076, 9780415324076
LCC
JN33.5 .P65 2004
Open Library ID
OL22590797M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1158838 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
248\247
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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