Katja Seidel

The Process of Politics in Europe (eBook, PDF)

The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With the launch of the European integration process after World War II, a new type of administration emerged which was neither an international organisation nor a national administration. Drawing on extensive archival records and oral history interviews, this book is the first comprehensive study of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), and their personnel, the European civil servants. This administrative elite was to have a vital influence on the European integration process, devising and administering key European policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy. Katja Seidel combines administrative and biographical history and provides significant insights into the origins of Europe's supranational institutions and the administrative cultures that developed in them. She effectively shows how European administrative elites and supranational administrations are vital to understanding the process of politics in Europe. This book will be invaluable for scholars of politics, history and the development of European integration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857718587
• Artikelnr.: 39142362

Autorenporträt

Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on a range of European policy areas, institutions and actors. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: THE HIGH AUTHORITY OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY
Chapter 1. Establishing a supranational administration: Challenges and
constraints
1.1 Organisation
1.2 Working methods
1.3 Recruitment patterns
Chapter 2. Towards a European administrative elite? The first European
civil servants
2.1 The officials' biographical background
2.2 Living and working in Luxembourg
2.3 Biographies of High Authority officials
PART II: THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
Chapter 3. Prudence and Pragmatism: the institutional establishment of the
Commission
3.1 The institutional set-up of the Commission
3.2 The establishment of practices and working methods
3.3 Recruitment patterns and personnel policy
3.4 Inflexibility, inefficiency and dissatisfaction: reforming the
administration
Chapter 4. Biographical studies: high officials in the Commission
4.1 Internal factors of Europeanization: biographical background
4.2 Space and time: external factors of Europeanization
4.3 Biographies of Commission officials
4.4 Identities, images and roles of Commission officials
Chapter 5. Institutions, administrative cultures and their role in EU
policy-making: the Directorates-General for Agriculture and Competition
5.1 Step One: The legacy of context and previous experiences
5.2 Step Two: The emergence of administrative cultures
5.3 Step Three: Socialisation processes in DG Agriculture and DG
Competition
Conclusions