Politicization within the European Commission’s bureaucracy
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9961972 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael W Bauer (0000-0003-1010-8499, autor correspondente), Jörn Ege (0000-0001-7286-6880, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 403-424 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020852312445022 |
| OpenAlex | W2316864544 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 37 |
| Referências citadas | 21 |
Against a background of institutional change and organizational reform, we analyze the politicization of the European Commission’s bureaucracy. Politicization can generally be defined as the substitution of bureaucratic neutrality by introducing political considerations into the human resource management and behaviour of civil servants. The concepts of direct and professional politicization serve as vantage points for our analysis. The empirical data are taken from documentary analysis and recent online and semi-structured surveys of Commission officials. We show that Commission bureaucrats, although they are highly sensitive to the political side of their job, are less politicized since the Kinnock reforms than before. While the College of the Commission seems to have indeed become more politically responsive to its supranational peers and national governments, the Commission’s bureaucracy can be characterized as weakly politicized or, according to current debates, as quite instrumental in a Neo-Weberian sense
Bureaucracy · Civil servants · Commission · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
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| Obras citantes distintas | 37 |
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| Citações por ano | 2,64 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 37 |