European Union Administration: Legitimacy and Efficiency

ISBN-13: 9789004155732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 201 str.

Peter N. E. Nedergaard

Opis

The book analyses the administrative system in the European Union with a focus on the efficiency and legitimacy of the administrative practices. In the analysis three distinct theoretical perspectives are used (a structural, a procedural and a cultural), thus ensuring that a broad variety of factors are included.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Concepts, Theories, and Context of the EU Administration
Chapter 2. The EU's administration - a political hybrid between a national and an international administration;
Chapter 3. Organizational Theories and the EU administration;
Chapter 4. The EU Administration in Context
Part II. Administration and Institutions of the European Union
Chapter 5 : Staffing the EU institutions;
Chapter 6 : The Commission - Organizational Structure, Processes and Culture;
Chapter 7 : The Council of Ministers - Organizational Structure, Processes and Culture;
Chapter 8 : Perspectives - Efficiency and legitimacy of the EU administration

O autorze

Peter Nedergaard , Ph.D. (1990) in Political Science, University of Aarhus, is Associate Professor at the International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. He has published extensively on various aspects of European integration in journals like the Journal of Common Market Studies, Public Choice and the Journal of European Integration.