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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: European Commission and bureaucratic autonomy
    sub title: Europe's custodians
  name:
    name part: Ellinas, Antonis A.
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Suleiman, Ezra N.
    name part: 1941-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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 European Union is a coherent organization that shares a common culture 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"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 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 and policy outputs; 9. Conclusion.
  note: Antonis A. Ellinas, Ezra Suleiman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: European Commission.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: European Union.
  subject:
    topic: Bureaucracy
    geographic: European Union countries
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  classification: JN33.5 .E49 2012
  classification: 341.242/2
  classification: POL040000
  identifier: 9781107023215 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107023211 (hardback)
  identifier: 2011049971
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 111230
    record change date: 20151202171006.0
    record identifier: in00002773613
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng