This book puts the organizational base of EU policy-making centre stage. It asks three crucial questions about recent administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible; what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organization; what is the likely impact for the policy process?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction: Organizational Change, Management Reform and EU Policy-Making Michael W. Bauer
2 'Mission Impossible' but Mission Accomplished? The Kinnock Reforms and the European Commission Hussein Kassim
3 Explaining variation in organizational change: The reform of human resource management in the European Commission and the OECD Christoph Knill and Tim Balint
4 Diffuse Anxieties, Deprived Entrepreneurs. Commission Reform and Middle Management Michael W. Bauer
5 Reforming the Commission: Between modernization and bureaucratization Antonis Ellinas and Ezra Suleiman
6 Implementing Organizational Change - The Case of the Kinnock Reforms Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan
7 European Commission Reform and the Origins of the European Transparency Initiative Michelle Cini
8 Enlargement, Reform and the European Commission - Weathering a Perfect Storm? John Peterson