An emergent European executive order / / Jarle Trondal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963242103321
• Autore: Trondal Jarle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0191573736; 9780191573736; 0-19-172271-5; 0-19-157373-6; 9786612698316; 0-19-957942-3; 1-282-69831-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 297 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 341.2422
• Soggetti: Executive orders - European Union countries; European Union countries Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introducing an emergent European Executive Order -- PART I: THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND AN EMERGENT EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE ORDER -- 2. The European Commission: organizational capacities and staff resources -- 3. The autonomy of the European Commission reassessed -- 4. Supranationalism and the European Commission -- 5. Compound machinery of the Commission -- 6. Is the Commission all that different? Reflections on comparative international bureaucracies -- PART II: EU-LEVEL AGENCIES IN AN EMERGENT EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE ORDER -- 7. Agency governance in an emergent European Executive Order -- 8. Bureaucratic autonomy and EU-level agencies -- PART III: EU COMMITTEE GOVERNANCE IN AN EMERGENT EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE ORDER -- 9. EU committee governance -- 10. How supranational are intergovernmental institutions? The transformative power of Council Working Groups -- 11. Ambiguity and representation in an emergent European Executive Order -- 12. An emergent European Executive Order and the domestic branch of executive government -- ; CONCLUSION -- 13. An emergent European Executive Order: less than a European 'mega-administration' -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book examines how the European Union profoundly penetrates the domestic branch of executive government. The author explores the accumulated organizational capacities and the every-day decision-making dynamics inside three key institutions: the European Commission, EU-level agencies, and EU committees.