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Politics and the European Commission : actors, interdependence, legitimacy / / edited by Andy Smith |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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0-203-68249-1 |
1-134-34745-6 |
1-280-05384-4 |
0-203-35688-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; ; 36 |
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SmithAndy <1963 July 24-> |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Actors, institutions and interdependence; Doing politics and pretending not to: the Commission's role in distributing aid to Eastern Europe; The politics of collegiality: the non-portfolio dimension; The Secretariat General of the European Commission, 1958 2003: a singular institution; Political dynamics of the parallel administration of the European Commission; The invention of a Directorate General for development (1958 1975) |
Institutionalizing public health in the European Commission: the thrills and spills of politicizationThe media, the Commission and its legitimacy; Was it really just poor communication? A socio-political reading of the Santer Commission's resignation; The politics of the Commission as an information source; Advertising Europe: the production of public information by the Commission; Publicizing the euro: a case of interest maximization and internal fragmentation of the Commission; Where is he now? The Delors legacy; Conclusion: politics in the European Union; Bibliography; Subject index |
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The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and |
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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 commis |
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