The Palgrave Handbook of the European Administrative System: (European Administrative Governance)

This important collection examines the emerging bureaucratic framework which underpins the European Union (EU) 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 is essential in understanding how the EU shapes European public policy. Accordingly, this study does not examine administrative capacities 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?

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: The Administrative System of the European Union; Michael W. Bauer and Jarle Trondal PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2. European Public Administration as Multilevel System Administration: A conceptual Framework; Arthur Benz 3. The Two Logics of Multilevel Administration in the EU; Edgar Grande and Martina McCowan 4. EU Administration: Center Formation and Multilevelness; Morton Egeberg 5. A Conceptual Account of the European Administrative Space; Jarle Trondal and B. Guy Peters 6. Administrative Styles of EU Institutions; Christoph Knill and Stephan Grohs 7. Administrative Reforms in the European Commission and the Neo-Weberian Model; Edoardo Ongaro PART II; EU'S EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION 8. The European Commision: Politics and Administration; Michelle Cini 9. Politicization of the European Commission: When, How and with What Impact?; Miriam Hartlapp 10. The Permanent Commission Bureaucrat; Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim 11. The Temporary Commission Bureaucrat; Zuzana Murdoch and Jarle Trondal 12. The European External Action Service (EEAS): The New Kid of the Block; Tannelie Blom and Sophie Vanhoonacker PART III: EU'S PARLIAMENT ADMINISTRATION 13. The European Administration: Organizational Structure and Behavioral Implications; Morten Egeberg, Ase Gornitzka, Jarle Trondal and Mathias Johannessen 14. Officials 'Pre-Cooking' EU Affairs? The Role of EP Officials in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP); Mathias Dobbels and Christine Neuhold PART IV: EU'S 'INTERGOVERNMENTAL' ADMINISTRATION 15. The EU Council(s) System and Administrative Fusion; Wolfgang Wessels, Peter Valant and Tobias Kunstein 16. the Institutional Context of the European Union's Council System and the International Design of Discretion for Preparatory Agents; Jeffery Lewis PART V: EU'S COURT ADMINISTRATIVE 17. The Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Administrative Space; Herwig C H. Hofman 18. The European Court of Auditors and Its Relationship With National Independent Audit Institutions: The Evolving Audit Function in the EU Multi-Level System; Hartmut Aden PART VI: EU'S SUBORDINATED ADMINISTRATION 19. EU's Subordinated Agency Administration and the Rise of Executive Power at the European Level; Morten Egeberg, Maria Martens and Jarle Trondal 20. Exploring EU Commission-Agency Relationship: Partnership or Parenthood? Nina Merethe Vestlund PART VII: VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION 21. Horizontal Capacity Pooling: Direct, Decentralized, Joint Policy Execution; Eva G. Heidbreder 22. EU Administration and Interaction with International Organizations; Bob Reinalda 23. The Expert-Executive Nexus in the European Administrative System: Expert Groups and the European Commission; Ase Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup 24. Comitology: Over 50 Years of Institutional Reforms and Emerging Practices; Gijs Jan Brandsma 25. Subnational Administrations in the EU Multilevel System: Perspectives from the Bureaucratic Elite; Michael W. Bauer and Stefan Becker 26. The Europeanization of Civil Services and Human Resources (HR) Policies; Christoph Demmke PART VIII: CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES 27 . Holding Executive Power to Account: The EU Administration's Accountability Challenge(s); Anchrit Wille 28. The European Administrative System Reassessed; Jarle Trondal

About the Author :
Michael W. Bauer is Jean Monnet Professor and holds the Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He has worked extensively on issues of multilevel public administration. He is interested in the comparative analysis of administrative structures and the consequence on public policy making. Jarle Trondal is Professor in Political Science and Public Administration at the Department of Political Science in the University of Agder, Norway. He is also Professor in European Studies at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, and Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His main research interests are in public administration, organizational studies, and the study of European political order transformation.

Review :
'This Handbook reveals the interlocking organizational, political and multi-level dimensions of the EU's administrative system. The individual chapters enrich our understanding of its distinctive institutional and behavioral aspects; together, they delimit how this emerging administrative order enhances and limits the EU's role as an autonomous policymaker.' - Chris Ansell, University of California, Berkeley, USA