Understanding Politics in the College of European Commissioners
Suggestions for a Research Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12944110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renke Deckarm (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author), Torsten J Selck (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary European Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1815-347X • E-ISSN: 1815-347X |
| Publisher | UACES (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.30950/jcer.v11i3.660 |
| OpenAlex | W2132557963 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This commentary discusses the state of the art in the academic literature on politics in the European Commission. We discuss scholarly advancements in the field and sketch out future research opportunities. We argue that principal-agent theory might serve as a useful theoretical device in this area and that more empirical work should focus on the dynamics between appointing Commissioners and the work they do while being in office. More specifically, we suggest analysing Commissioners’ speeches with quantitative text analysis. This method is yet unused to extract Commissioners’ positions
Commission · Economics · European commission · European union · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security · Public relations · Sketch · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
The Normalization of the European Commission
The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century
Evaluating integration theory
How the European Commission’s Policies Are Made
An Agent Dependent on the EU Member States? The Determinants of the European Commission’s Legislative Success in the European Union
Which Policy for Europe? Power and Conflict Inside the European Commission
Bureaucratic Politics and Political Leadership in Brussels
Organization and Nationality in the European Commission Services
Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few Via International Socialization
A Not So Technocratic Executive? Everyday Interaction between the European Parliament and the Commission
Beyond the myth of nationality
Governing at the frontier of the European commission
Decision-making dynamics in the European Commission
An elephant on the 13th floor of the Berlaymont? European Council and Commission relations in legislative agenda setting
Technocratic and independent? The appointment of European Commissioners and its policy implications
The quest for order
Experiments in Supranational Institution-Building
Executive politics as usual
Legislative Behaviour and Party Competition in the European Parliament
Multiple Embeddedness and Socialization in Europe
The Janus Face of Brussels
The Compound Machinery of Government
The European Commission and the implementation of its legislative programme
Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring
Treaty reform and the Commission’s appointment and policy-making role in the European Union
The contextual nature of lobbying
Experience and the distribution of portfolio payoffs in the European Commission
Coalition Formation in the European Parliament
Endogenous Preferences And Delegation In The European Union
Position Taking in European Parliament Speeches
Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament
National Actors in International Organizations
The Composition of the College of Commissioners
A Scaling Model for Estimating Time‐Series Party Positions from Texts
Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |