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| Other authors / contributors: | Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941-
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| ISBN: | 9781139380454
1139380451
1139366432
9781139366434
1107231833
9781107231832
1280647728
9781280647727
9786613633774
6613633771
113937902X
9781139379021
1139150871
9781139150873
1139376160
9781139376167
1139377590
9781139377591
1139372173
9781139372176
9781107023215
1107023211
9781139376167
9781107689718
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the European Union is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the "custodians of Europe." The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Ellinas, Antonis A., 1975- Bureaucratic autonomy and the European Commission. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107023215
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