H Kassim
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 52794 |
|---|---|
| NOME | H Kassim |
| PRENOMES | H |
| SOBRENOME | Kassim |
| ASSINATURA | KASSIM H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7603-8377 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 515 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Bringing the EU Back In
Although the bilateral deals it has struck with European neighbours are a key element of the United Kingdom's post‐Brexit diplomacy, it would be a mistake to view these understandings as evidence that the United Kingdom has escaped the EU's influence or orbit. Since the United Kingdom's co‐signatories are bound by their legal and political commitments as EU member states, the deals they can conclude with non‐members are limited. Inspired by the w…
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission
This article assesses whether women face the same challenges in the European Commission as men by examining the career paths to top political and administrative positions. Drawing on a unique dataset, it investigates whether and, if so, how and when, women are disadvantaged. First, we analyze the characteristics and experience of all Commissioners and Directors General (2004–2019) to delineate the career paths to the top positions in the organiza…
Intraorganizational mobility and employees’ work-related contact patterns
Programs to encourage staff to move within public-sector organizations have become increasingly widespread in recent decades. Yet, although there are some anecdotal accounts, the effects of such intraorganizational mobility remain largely unexplored. Building on insights from organization theory and social psychology, we argue that intraorganizational mobility entails an important trade-off: it undermines movers’ depth of work-related contacts wi…
The ‘Geopolitical Commission’
This article reflects on the origins and evolution of the ‘geopolitical Commission’. It discusses the Commission President’s personal style and entrepreneurship, the contingency that allowed for the concept’s expansion and the institutional conditions that were propitious to von der Leyen’s success. It concludes with a reflection on possible future developments. The article makes three main arguments. The first is that although the preceding Comm…
One EU civil service or many? The European Commission and the council secretariat
In scholarship on bureaucratic socialisation, length of \n service is frequently identified as the key variable in explaining \n alignment of the beliefs and values of staff members with those of \n the administration. This article challenges this view. Presenting \n analysis based on data from the European Commission and the \n General Secretariat of the Council -- two parts of the EU \n administration, which draw staff from the same talent pool…
Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims
Organizational reforms often involve substantial staff reallocations, creating both winners and losers within the same organization. We argue that allocating less (more) staff to a department signals a decrease (increase) in organizational support towards that department and its employees. We hypothesize that staff members respond to this signal by adjusting their support for key organizational aims and their plans to stay in the organization. We…
The European Commission and the Covid-19 pandemic
According to a widely held view, the European Council decides how the EU should respond in times of crisis, since the European Council alone has the authority to lead. Other institutions, meanwhile, adopt at best a secondary role. An alternative perspective has emerged, however, which contends, first, that the European Council’s influence on the EU's crisis response is variable and, second, that other EU institutions, in particular the European C…
The quiet transformation of the EU Commission cabinet system
Although cabinets in the European Commission have attracted considerable interest, scholarly attention has mainly focused on their composition and influence. How the status of cabinets or the relations between them have changed over time, and how cabinets have been affected by changes to the wider institutional environment, has gone largely unexamined. This article takes a step towards filling that gap. It argues that, despite apparent stability …
Des bureaucraties poreuses ? Les interactions de la commission européenne et du secrétariat du conseil avec leur environnement, et leur influence sur leurs préférences en termes de gouvernance
Les institutions européennes et les personnes qui travaillent pour elles sont souvent considérées comme repliées sur elles-mêmes et leurs ambitions : la Commission européenne est dépeinte comme une technocratie distante, et le Secrétariat du Conseil est considéré comme secret et renfermé. Cet article soumet ces hypothèses à un test empirique et va à leur encontre. S’appuyant sur deux jeux de données originaux, il cartographie les pratiques d’inte…
From Big Bang to Brexit
This article aims to generate new insights into the City’s influence during the Brexit negotiations. Integrating theories of discursive institutionalism and business power, we set out to analyse the dynamic ‘discursive power’ of finance. From this perspective, a key source of the City’s influence historically has been a powerful strategic discourse about London’s role as Europe’s leading global financial centre. This was strengthened following th…
Legitimacy crises and the temporal dynamics of bureaucratic representation
The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single point in time. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective. In terms of theory, we postulate specific temporal relationships between triggering cues (e.g., a crisis event) and the representation decisions of civil serv…
Internal network structures as opportunity structures
European Administrative Networks (EANs) are well-studied platforms of collaboration between national authorities. To understand EANs, the literature typically relies on few explanatory variables: network origins, objectives, and outputs. This external view of EANs leaves important questions unanswered, notably concerning power redistribution and regulators’ perception of EANs. This article highlights the importance of network internal structures …
Breaking out of silos
The view that silos are endemic in organisations in general and the European Civil Service in particular has become increasingly widespread. Yet, silos are rarely investigated theoretically or empirically. What is a silo? What are the individual and organisational factors associated with silos? We propose a functionalist approach to silo definition and identification, which links individual and organisational tasks to expected intra-organisationa…
Preferences, Preference Formation and Position Taking in a Eurozone Out
In the literature on member state position-taking in the eurozone crisis, the debate has mainly centred on whether national preferences are shaped exclusively within the domestic setting or influenced by shared EU-level norms or interaction within EU institutions. This article goes beyond this discussion. Drawing on original data collected by the authors, it uses the UK’s experience to test the claims both of society-centred approaches, including…
Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations
Public sector organizations face regular turnover in top leadership positions. Yet little is known about how such changes affect staff attitudes. The authors argue that top leader succession may influence staff attitudes, particularly when new leaders are “outsiders” and/or subordinates interact regularly with their leaders. Using a unique two‐wave survey conducted within the European Commission in 2008 and 2014, this analysis tests these proposi…
The Study of National Preference Formation in Times of the Euro Crisis and Beyond
The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference formation, defining it provisionally as a political process ‘by which social actors decide what they want and what to pursue’. After an analysis of different conceptual and theoretical approaches, the introduction offers a critique of liberal intergovernmentalism, one of the major explanatory frameworks of preference formation in European Union studie…
The Juncker Presidency
First published: 27 October 2019
Do international institutions matter? Socialization and international bureaucrats
A key component of (neo-)functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of international organizations concerns staff socialization. Existing analyses of how, or indeed whether, staff develop more pro-internationalist attitudes over time draw predominantly on cross-sectional data. Yet, such data cannot address (self-)selection issues or capture the inherently temporal nature of attitude change. This article proposes an innovative approa…
The European Commission as an Administration
The European Commission has always attracted significant scholarly attention, though in the past, interest was mainly directed towards its role and influence in policy making. That has now changed. The Commission has become the focus of a broad research agenda and a literature that has delivered new knowledge and significantly advanced understanding of the Commission as a public administration. This chapter has two aims: the first is to provide a…
Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union
This article suggests a new concept of measurement for the EU’s oft-alleged democratic deficit based on two contributions. First, we turn attention to the administrative staff involved in policy-making rather than the (un)accountability of EUs’ parliamentarians and executive agents. Second, building on the idea that policy-makers’ legitimacy depends on the extent to which they can claim to represent some groups or social interests, we assess the …
Managing the house
Although the importance of international organizations is well-established, the specific contribution made to their policy outputs by administrative as opposed to political actors is rarely investigated. Still less attention is paid to how intra-organizational factors within international administrations affect the latter’s capacity to influence those outputs. Even in the case of the European Union, where the European Commission’s power over deci…
What’s New? A First Appraisal of the Juncker Commission
Although still in its early phases, the Juncker Commission has already broken new ground. Not only is Jean-Claude Juncker the first Commission President to be selected by the Spitzenkandidaten process, an extra-constitutional system that has reconfigured the European Union’s institutional balance, but he has transformed the structure and operation of the College in order to create a more political, and therefore more effective, Commission, and ma…
London Calling
London calling : reconsidérer la coordination nationale des affaires européennes au Royaume-Uni – La coordination britannique des affaires européennes a fait l’objet d’une attention considérable, mais un grand nombre d’enjeux restent en suspens. Cet article est construit en trois temps. Premièrement, malgré le rôle que les ministères sectoriels jouent dans le système, le Royaume-Uni reste encore très centralisé. Deuxièmement, derrière la revendic…
Supranationalism' in Question
Do international organizations affect the views of the people who work for them? Although increasingly sophisticated methods have been used to address this question, disagreement persists about whether the beliefs of staff are formed before they join, after they enter the institution, or are shaped by instrumental calculation. Drawing on an original dataset based on the first fully representative survey of the European Commission's workforce, thi…
The Commission
In the debate about the impact of the eurozone crisis on the EU’s institutional balance, antagonists have often argued past each other. Supporters of the new intergovernmentalism contend that the European Council has supplanted the European Commission in policy leadership, while scholars who hold that the EU executive has been a winner of the crisis highlight the new management functions it has acquired. This article argues, first, that an accura…
Managing the house
Although the importance of international organizations is well-established, the specific contribution made to their policy outputs by administrative as opposed to political actors is rarely investigated. Still less attention is paid to how intra-organizational factors within international administrations affect the latter’s capacity to influence those outputs. Even in the case of the European Union, where the European Commission’s power over deci…
Exploring Governance in a Multi-Level Polity
The study of public policy instruments in national settings has contributed significantly to our understanding of policy, political systems, and relations between state and citizen. Its promise for the EU, where instrument-centred research has hitherto been limited in coverage and method, remains by contrast largely unfulfilled. This article discusses the political sociology approach to instruments, developed by Lascoumes and Le Galès as an alter…
The Commission
In the debate about the impact of the eurozone crisis on the EU’s institutional balance, antagonists have often argued past each other. Supporters of the new intergovernmentalism contend that the European Council has supplanted the European Commission in policy leadership, while scholars who hold that the EU executive has been a winner of the crisis highlight the new management functions it has acquired. This article argues, first, that an accura…
The European Commission and the Covid-19 pandemic
According to a widely held view, the European Council decides how the EU should respond in times of crisis, since the European Council alone has the authority to lead. Other institutions, meanwhile, adopt at best a secondary role. An alternative perspective has emerged, however, which contends, first, that the European Council’s influence on the EU's crisis response is variable and, second, that other EU institutions, in particular the European C…
Mission impossible’, but mission accomplished
The Kinnock reforms have unsurprisingly attracted attention, but important aspects have been overlooked in existing accounts. Closer inspection reveals three puzzles: an atypical pattern of administrative change, where a ‘big bang’ reform followed four decades of inaction; the adoption of a more radical set of measures by the Commission than was demanded of it; and the successful implementation of a far-reaching reform programme in defiance of th…
Policy networks, networks and European Union policy making
The policy network approach and the networks model are the most recent conceptual frameworks to be applied to the policy‐making processes of the European Union and are regarded by many as the most appropriate. This article, while acknowledging their appeal, puts forward a sceptical view about the usefulness of their application to the EU. Three contentions are advanced about these approaches: first, that the fluidity of EU processes eludes their …
The Juncker Presidency
First published: 27 October 2019
Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union
This article suggests a new concept of measurement for the EU’s oft-alleged democratic deficit based on two contributions. First, we turn attention to the administrative staff involved in policy-making rather than the (un)accountability of EUs’ parliamentarians and executive agents. Second, building on the idea that policy-makers’ legitimacy depends on the extent to which they can claim to represent some groups or social interests, we assess the …
Internal network structures as opportunity structures
European Administrative Networks (EANs) are well-studied platforms of collaboration between national authorities. To understand EANs, the literature typically relies on few explanatory variables: network origins, objectives, and outputs. This external view of EANs leaves important questions unanswered, notably concerning power redistribution and regulators’ perception of EANs. This article highlights the importance of network internal structures …
Do international institutions matter? Socialization and international bureaucrats
A key component of (neo-)functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of international organizations concerns staff socialization. Existing analyses of how, or indeed whether, staff develop more pro-internationalist attitudes over time draw predominantly on cross-sectional data. Yet, such data cannot address (self-)selection issues or capture the inherently temporal nature of attitude change. This article proposes an innovative approa…
Myths and Myth‐Making in the European Union
EU competition policy has become so strongly institutionalized that it is easy to overlook its precarious status in earlier decades. This article argues, first, that the Commission responded to the imperative arising from the extraordinary powers created by the treaty and the novelty of competition policy in post‐war Europe by developing a series of myths to provide justification for its prerogatives. Second, these myths have played a key role in…
Deciding the Future of the European Union
Bringing Regulatory Processes Back In
The dominant view in the literature depicts the modernisation of the antitrust rules and the reform of the Merger Regulation as a struggle for control between the European Commission and the member states, from which the Commission emerged triumphant. This article rejects this 'power politics' interpretation, arguing that its proponents misrepresent the reform process, overstate the power of the Commission, and overlook the wider ideational conte…
Legitimacy crises and the temporal dynamics of bureaucratic representation
The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single point in time. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective. In terms of theory, we postulate specific temporal relationships between triggering cues (e.g., a crisis event) and the representation decisions of civil serv…
What’s New? A First Appraisal of the Juncker Commission
Although still in its early phases, the Juncker Commission has already broken new ground. Not only is Jean-Claude Juncker the first Commission President to be selected by the Spitzenkandidaten process, an extra-constitutional system that has reconfigured the European Union’s institutional balance, but he has transformed the structure and operation of the College in order to create a more political, and therefore more effective, Commission, and ma…
The Kinnock Reforms in Perspective
The European Commission is a latecomer to administrative reform. Virtually alone among public administrations, it was untouched by the tide of management reforms that were a feature of the 1980s and early 1990s. Although modest attempts at modernisation were undertaken by the Santer Commission, these were limited, fragmentary and partially successful at best (Pollitt and Bourkaert, 2000; Stevens and Stevens, 2001). Since 1999, however, the Commis…
From Big Bang to Brexit
This article aims to generate new insights into the City’s influence during the Brexit negotiations. Integrating theories of discursive institutionalism and business power, we set out to analyse the dynamic ‘discursive power’ of finance. From this perspective, a key source of the City’s influence historically has been a powerful strategic discourse about London’s role as Europe’s leading global financial centre. This was strengthened following th…
The quiet transformation of the EU Commission cabinet system
Although cabinets in the European Commission have attracted considerable interest, scholarly attention has mainly focused on their composition and influence. How the status of cabinets or the relations between them have changed over time, and how cabinets have been affected by changes to the wider institutional environment, has gone largely unexamined. This article takes a step towards filling that gap. It argues that, despite apparent stability …
Breaking out of silos
The view that silos are endemic in organisations in general and the European Civil Service in particular has become increasingly widespread. Yet, silos are rarely investigated theoretically or empirically. What is a silo? What are the individual and organisational factors associated with silos? We propose a functionalist approach to silo definition and identification, which links individual and organisational tasks to expected intra-organisationa…
The Study of National Preference Formation in Times of the Euro Crisis and Beyond
The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference formation, defining it provisionally as a political process ‘by which social actors decide what they want and what to pursue’. After an analysis of different conceptual and theoretical approaches, the introduction offers a critique of liberal intergovernmentalism, one of the major explanatory frameworks of preference formation in European Union studie…
Supranationalism' in Question
Do international organizations affect the views of the people who work for them? Although increasingly sophisticated methods have been used to address this question, disagreement persists about whether the beliefs of staff are formed before they join, after they enter the institution, or are shaped by instrumental calculation. Drawing on an original dataset based on the first fully representative survey of the European Commission's workforce, thi…
Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations
Public sector organizations face regular turnover in top leadership positions. Yet little is known about how such changes affect staff attitudes. The authors argue that top leader succession may influence staff attitudes, particularly when new leaders are “outsiders” and/or subordinates interact regularly with their leaders. Using a unique two‐wave survey conducted within the European Commission in 2008 and 2014, this analysis tests these proposi…
Inside the European Commission
The European Commission and the future of Europe
This article examines the Commission's preferences and preference formation in relation to the Convention and the negotiation of the Constitutional Treaty. Opposing rational choice accounts, which explain Commission action in terms of the tendency of bureaucratic actors to seek to maximize power, status and opportunities, it argues that the Commission is best seen as an internally differentiated arena, from which preferences emerge as a result of…
Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European commission
This article assesses whether women face the same challenges in the European Commission as men by examining the career paths to top political and administrative positions. Drawing on a unique dataset, it investigates whether and, if so, how and when, women are disadvantaged. First, we analyze the characteristics and experience of all Commissioners and Directors General (2004–2019) to delineate the career paths to the top positions in the organiza…
Policy networks, networks and European Union policy making
The policy network approach and the networks model are the most recent conceptual frameworks to be applied to the policy‐making processes of the European Union and are regarded by many as the most appropriate. This article, while acknowledging their appeal, puts forward a sceptical view about the usefulness of their application to the EU. Three contentions are advanced about these approaches: first, that the fluidity of EU processes eludes their …
French autonomy and the European Union
This article considers the changing nature of France's relationship with the EC/EU. It looks at how France's ability to define the shape and direction of integration for much of the postwar period has been eroded since the implementation of the Single European Act, and how German unification has altered the balance of power within the Franco‐German alliance, so precipitating a crisis in France about ‘Europe’. Though the impact of the EU has often…
The National Co-ordination of EU Policy
This book is the first of two volumes in which leading scholars examine the way in which member states of the European Union (EU) co-ordinate their European policies. Rather than looking at the ‘Europeanization’ problematic within which the issue is usually addressed, it adopts a broader, more inclusive approach, examining domestic processes and investigating co-ordination in ten member states ––Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,…
Internal Policy Developments
Internal Policy Developments
Les États membres de l'UE et la Commission Prodi
The relationship between the member states and the Commission is at the heart of the EU's institutional structure and at the centre of debates about the European Union. How the power of the Commission changes over time, reflecting, and at the same time contributing to, a shifting balance between supranational and intergovernmental elements, is no less important. This article contends that the decline of the Commission, already in progress when Pr…
Deciding the Future of the European Union
The United Kingdom and the Future of Europe
The Kinnock Reforms in Perspective
The European Commission is a latecomer to administrative reform. Virtually alone among public administrations, it was untouched by the tide of management reforms that were a feature of the 1980s and early 1990s. Although modest attempts at modernisation were undertaken by the Santer Commission, these were limited, fragmentary and partially successful at best (Pollitt and Bourkaert, 2000; Stevens and Stevens, 2001). Since 1999, however, the Commis…
Inside the European Commission
Principal Agent Relationships and UK Regulated Utilities
Quel avenir pour l'Europe
Regulatory Competition against Public Health? The Building of a European Medicines Regulation The emergence of a European political space in the pharmaceutical sector has created competition between regulatory agencies. But regulatory competition has long been recognized as a potential downward pressure on regulation standards. As a consequence, this article discusses the hypothesis of a “race to the bottom” in the sanitary control of medicines i…
Le Royaume-Uni et le Traité constitutionnel européen
UK action with respect to the Constitutional Treaty is instructive and paradoxical. Regarding the former, the way in which its preferences were formulated challenge the contentions of liberal intergovernmentalism, the main theoretical approach in the field. With respect to the latter, New Labour adopted a positive and constructive approach that distinguished its conduct from that of previous governments, but its failure to engage domestic public …
La Commission européenne et le débat sur l'avenir de l'Europe
The European Commission and the Debate on the Future of Europe This article examines the Commission’s preferences and preference formation in relation to the Convention and the negotiation of the Constitutional Treaty. Opposing rational choice accounts, which explain Commission action in terms of the tendency of bureaucratic actors to seek to maximise power, status and opportunities, it argues that the Commission is best seen as an internally dif…
The European Commission and the future of Europe
This article examines the Commission's preferences and preference formation in relation to the Convention and the negotiation of the Constitutional Treaty. Opposing rational choice accounts, which explain Commission action in terms of the tendency of bureaucratic actors to seek to maximize power, status and opportunities, it argues that the Commission is best seen as an internally differentiated arena, from which preferences emerge as a result of…
Mission impossible’, but mission accomplished
The Kinnock reforms have unsurprisingly attracted attention, but important aspects have been overlooked in existing accounts. Closer inspection reveals three puzzles: an atypical pattern of administrative change, where a ‘big bang’ reform followed four decades of inaction; the adoption of a more radical set of measures by the Commission than was demanded of it; and the successful implementation of a far-reaching reform programme in defiance of th…
Bringing Regulatory Processes Back In
The dominant view in the literature depicts the modernisation of the antitrust rules and the reform of the Merger Regulation as a struggle for control between the European Commission and the member states, from which the Commission emerged triumphant. This article rejects this 'power politics' interpretation, arguing that its proponents misrepresent the reform process, overstate the power of the Commission, and overlook the wider ideational conte…
Myths and Myth‐Making in the European Union
EU competition policy has become so strongly institutionalized that it is easy to overlook its precarious status in earlier decades. This article argues, first, that the Commission responded to the imperative arising from the extraordinary powers created by the treaty and the novelty of competition policy in post‐war Europe by developing a series of myths to provide justification for its prerogatives. Second, these myths have played a key role in…
Exploring Governance in a Multi-Level Polity
The study of public policy instruments in national settings has contributed significantly to our understanding of policy, political systems, and relations between state and citizen. Its promise for the EU, where instrument-centred research has hitherto been limited in coverage and method, remains by contrast largely unfulfilled. This article discusses the political sociology approach to instruments, developed by Lascoumes and Le Galès as an alter…
Introducing the ‘Too Difficult Box’
Although governments intervene extensively across an ever‐increasing range of activities, there are some problems that they are loath to address. These issues vary in size, scale and complexity. Some are local; others are national. A number are international or global. The impediments to action also differ. They may be technical, institutional or political. In some cases, there is no agreement even that a problem exists. In a few, by contrast, ex…
The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century
Co-authored by an international team of researchers and drawing on interviews with senior officials, 'The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century' tests, challenges and refutes many widely held myths about the European Commission and the people who work for it.
Immigrant Community Leaders Identify Four Dimensions of Trust for Culturally Appropriate Diabetes Education and Care
What’s New? A First Appraisal of the Juncker Commission
Although still in its early phases, the Juncker Commission has already broken new ground. Not only is Jean-Claude Juncker the first Commission President to be selected by the Spitzenkandidaten process, an extra-constitutional system that has reconfigured the European Union’s institutional balance, but he has transformed the structure and operation of the College in order to create a more political, and therefore more effective, Commission, and ma…
London Calling
London calling : reconsidérer la coordination nationale des affaires européennes au Royaume-Uni – La coordination britannique des affaires européennes a fait l’objet d’une attention considérable, mais un grand nombre d’enjeux restent en suspens. Cet article est construit en trois temps. Premièrement, malgré le rôle que les ministères sectoriels jouent dans le système, le Royaume-Uni reste encore très centralisé. Deuxièmement, derrière la revendic…
Supranationalism' in Question
Do international organizations affect the views of the people who work for them? Although increasingly sophisticated methods have been used to address this question, disagreement persists about whether the beliefs of staff are formed before they join, after they enter the institution, or are shaped by instrumental calculation. Drawing on an original dataset based on the first fully representative survey of the European Commission's workforce, thi…
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