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Ellinas Antonis A. <1975-> |
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Bureaucratic autonomy and the European Commission : Europe's custodians / / Antonis A. Ellinas, Ezra [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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1-139-36643-2 |
1-107-23183-3 |
1-280-64772-8 |
9786613633774 |
1-139-37902-X |
1-139-15087-1 |
1-139-37616-0 |
1-139-37759-0 |
1-139-37217-3 |
1-139-38045-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Bureaucracy - European Union countries |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.215-232) and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. The autonomy of national and transnational bureaucracies -- 3. Surveying top European bureaucrats -- 4. Autonomy at the top of the European bureaucracy -- 5. Political attempts to alter bureaucratic behavior -- 6. Cultural impediments to political control -- 7. Custodians of 'Europe' -- 8. Bureaucratic attitudes toward controversial policies -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Distribution of sample by Directorate-General or service -- Appendix B: Contact of European bureaucrats with the European Parliament. |
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This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture |
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of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the 'custodians of Europe'. The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention. |
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UNINA9910810007203321 |
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Autore |
Sklenár Robert John |
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Plant of a strange vine : oratio corrupta and the poetics of senecan tragedy / / Robert John Sklenár |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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3-11-051894-5 |
3-11-051974-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (108 pages) |
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, , 1616-0452 ; ; Band 363 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Chapter One. Letter 114 and the Poetics of Decadence -- Chapter Two. A Senecan Reading of Seneca’s Oedipus, Part I -- Chapter Three. A Senecan Reading of Seneca’s Oedipus, Part II -- Chapter Four. Seneca and Neronian Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Subject index |
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This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of |
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Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists – hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor – are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies: in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only the individual, but also his society and the entire universe. |
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